And God spoke thus: His seed would be alien in a foreign land, and they would enslave and mistreat them four hundred years.

At this remark Moses fled and became an exile in the land of Midian, where he fathered two sons.

And he said unto them, "Ye do know how that it is an unlawful thing for a man that is a Jew to company or come unto an alien: But God hath showed me that I should not call any man common or unclean:

Now all the Athenians, and the foreigners who dwell alien there, were at leisure in nothing else, than to tell or to hear something new.