34 Bible Verses about Gentiles, In Ot

The uncircumcised man may not eat it. If a foreigner has settled among you and wants to celebrate Passover to honor Jehovah, you must first circumcise all the males of his household. He is then to be treated like a native-born Israelite and may join in the festival. The same regulations apply to native-born Israelites and to foreigners who settle among you.

Foreigners living with you may want to celebrate Jehovah's Passover. They must follow these same rules and regulations. The same rules will apply to foreigners and native-born Israelites.'

All native-born Israelites must do it this way when they bring an offering by fire, a soothing aroma to Jehovah. Make a food offering, an odor that pleases Jehovah. If foreigners live among you, whether on a temporary or a permanent basis, they are to observe the same regulations. For all time to come, the same rules are binding on you and on the foreigners who live among you. You and they are alike in Jehovah's sight.read more.
The same laws and regulations apply to you and to them.

When a foreigner who lives in a distant land hears of your fame and of the great things you have done for your people and comes to worship you and to pray at this Temple, For they will have news of your great name and your strong hand and your out-stretched arm. When he comes to pray in this house: Listen to him and give him his desire. Let all the peoples of the earth know about your name. Let them worship you as your people Israel, and that they may see that this house which I have built is truly named by your name.

Foreigners have become allied with Jehovah, to serve Jehovah, to love the name of Jehovah, and to worship him. They keep the Sabbath without desecrating it and hold fast to my covenant. I will bring them to my holy mountain and give them joy in my house of prayer. Their burnt offerings and sacrifices will be accepted on my altar. My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations. The Sovereign Lord Jehovah declares: He who gathers the exiles of Israel, I will gather still others to them besides those already gathered.

Do not mistreat a foreigner. You know how it feels to be a foreigner. After all you were foreigners in Egypt.

Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner. Remember that you were foreigners in Egypt.

When you reap the harvest of your land, you should not reap to the very corners of your field. You should not gather the gleanings of your harvest. Do not glean your vineyard. Do not gather the fallen fruit of your vineyard. Leave them for the needy and for the stranger. I am Jehovah your God.

This law applies to all of you. It applies to Israelites and to foreigners living among you. I am Jehovah your God.'

Finish paying all the tithe of your increase in the third year, the year of tithing. Then you shall give it to the Levite, the stranger, and the orphan and to the widow, that they may eat in your towns and be satisfied. Say before Jehovah your God: 'I have removed the sacred portion from my house. I also have given it to the Levite and the alien, the orphan and the widow, according to all your commandments that you have commanded me. I have not transgressed or forgotten any of your commandments. I have not eaten of it while mourning. I have not removed any of it while I was unclean, nor offered any of it to the dead. I have listened to the voice of Jehovah my God. I have done according to all that you have commanded me.read more.
Look down from your holy place in heaven and bless your people Israel. Bless the ground you have given us, a land flowing with milk and honey, as you swore to our fathers.'

Cursed is he who withholds justice due an alien, orphan, and widow. The people all say: Amen.

I will bless those who bless you. I will curse whoever curses you. All the people on earth will be blessed through you.

Abraham will definitely become a great and mighty nation, and all the nations of the earth will be blessed in him.

All the nations will ask me to bless them as I have blessed your descendants. This is because you obeyed my command.'

The Scripture revealed ahead of time, that God justified the people of the nations by faith. He preached the good news beforehand to Abraham. He said: In you will all the nations be blessed. So then those who have faith are blessed with the faithful Abraham.

All the ends of the earth will remember and return to Jehovah. All the families from all the nations will worship you. This is because the kingdom belongs to Jehovah and he rules the nations.

All the nations that you have made will bow in your presence, Jehovah. They will honor (glorify) you.

He was given legal power and a kingdom. Out of his glory all the peoples, nations, and languages will serve him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion that will not pass away. His kingdom will not be destroyed. (Revelation 11:15) (Daniel 2:44) (Psalm 45:6)

In that day I will raise up the fallen tabernacle of David and close up the breaches. I will raise up its ruins and rebuild it as in the days of old. They may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations that are called by my name, said Jehovah.

He says: It is a small thing that you are my servant. You will raise up the tribes of Jacob and restore the preserved ones of Israel. I will also make you a light to the nations that my salvation will reach to the end of the earth.

There will be no more gloom for those who were suffering. In the past he humiliated the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali. But in the future he will honor Galilee of the Nations, by the way of the sea, along the Jordan. The people who walk in darkness (ignorance) (lies) have seen a great light (truth). A light has dawned on those who live in the land of the shadow of death (the grave) (calamity).

I, Jehovah, have called you and have given you power to see that justice is done on earth. I will make a covenant with all peoples and bring light (truth) (light of instruction) (Psalm 27:1) to the nations through you.

Arise O woman and shine! Your light has come, and the glory of Jehovah beams on you. Darkness now covers the earth! Thick darkness overwhelms the nations. But Jehovah shines for you. His glory appears to you. Nations will come to your light. Kings will come to the brightness of your illumination.

My eyes have seen your salvation. That which you prepared before the peoples. It is a light of revelation to the nations, and the glory of your people Israel.

Look! My servant whom I have chosen. I am well pleased with him. I will put my Spirit upon him and he will declare judgment to the nations. He will not quarrel, nor cry aloud. None will hear his voice in the streets. He will break a bruised reed. He will quench smoking flax. This he will do until he sends forth judgment to victory.read more.
The nations will hope in his name!

Here is my servant, whom I have strengthened. Here is the one I have chosen, with whom I am pleased. I have filled him with my Spirit, and he will bring justice to every nation. He will not shout or raise his voice or make loud speeches in the streets. He will not break off a bent reed nor extinguish a flickering lamp. He will bring lasting justice to all.read more.
He will not lose hope or courage. He will establish justice on the earth. Distant lands eagerly wait for his law.

If God decided to show his wrath and make his power known, endured with much long-suffering vessels of wrath fit for destruction. In that way he could make known the riches of his glory upon vessels of mercy that he had prepared in advance for glory. We are the ones he has also called, not only from among the Jews, but also from among the nations.read more.
He says also in Hosea: Those who are not my people I will call my people. And she who is not loved I will call loved.

And I will sow her to me in the earth! I will have mercy (compassion) on her who had not obtained mercy. I will say to those who were not my people: 'You are my people!' They will answer: 'You are my God!'

In time past you were no people, but now you are the people of God. You had not then received, but now have received mercy (compassion) (divine kindness).

That the nations might glorify God for his mercy as it is written: For this cause I will confess you to the people of the nations, and sing to your name. And again he says: Rejoice, you nations, with his people. (Deuteronomy 32:43) And again: Praise Jehovah, all you nations; and laud him, all you people. (Psalm 117:1)read more.
And again, Isaiah says: Then in that day the nations will search for and turn to the root of Jesse. He will stand as a signal for the peoples. His resting place will be glorious. (Isaiah 11:10)

Rejoice you nations with his people. He will avenge the blood of his servants. He will render vengeance on his adversaries, and will atone for his land and his people.

I will praise you, Jehovah, and I will honor you among the nations.

That is why I will give thanks to you, O Jehovah, among the nations and make music to praise your name.

Then in that day the nations will search for and turn to the root of Jesse. He will stand as a signal for the peoples. His resting place will be glorious.