'Country' in the Bible
Let us deal shrewdly with them; otherwise they will multiply further, and if war breaks out, they may join our enemies, fight against us, and leave the country.”
Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Go sacrifice to your God within the country.”
For if you refuse to let My people go, then hear this: tomorrow I will bring [migratory] locusts into your country.
The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled down in the whole territory, a very dreadful mass of them; never before were there such locusts as these, nor will there ever be again.
So the Lord shifted the wind to a violent west wind which lifted up the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea; not one locust remained within the border of Egypt.
For seven days no leaven is to be seen in your houses: for whoever takes bread which is leavened will be cut off from the people of Israel, if he is from another country or if he is an Israelite by birth.
Now the Egyptians pressured the people in order to send them quickly out of the country, for they said, “We’re all going to die!”
A man from a strange country living among you, and a servant working for payment, may not take part in it.
And if a man from another country is living with you, and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all the males of his family undergo circumcision, and then let him come near and keep it; for he will then be as one of your people; but no one without circumcision may keep it.
The law is the same for him who is an Israelite by birth and for the man from a strange country who is living with you.
But the seventh day is a Sabbath to the Lord your God; on that day you are to do no work, you or your son or your daughter, your man-servant or your woman-servant, your cattle or the man from a strange country who is living among you:
Do no wrong to a man from a strange country, and do not be hard on him; for you yourselves were living in a strange country, in the land of Egypt.
Do not be hard on the man from a strange country who is living among you; for you have had experience of the feelings of one who is far from the land of his birth, because you yourselves were living in Egypt, in a strange land.
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Bible Theasaurus
- Area (190 instances)
- Commonwealth (2 instances)
- Country (613 instances)
- Hamlet (2 instances)
- Home (454 instances)
- Land (2583 instances)
- Nation (326 instances)
- State (107 instances)
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