11 Bible Verses about Laws Restricting Foreigners

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Exodus 12:43

And Jehovah will say to Moses and Aaron, This the law of the passing over: every son of a stranger shall not eat of it.

Leviticus 22:10

And any stranger shall not eat the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest and a hireling shall not eat the holy thing.

Deuteronomy 23:3

An Ammonite and a Moabite shall not come into the gathering of Jehovah; also the tenth generation to them shall not come in to the gathering of Jehovah, even forever:

Nehemiah 13:1

In that day was read in the book of Moses in the ears of the people; and it was found written in it that there shall not come in an Ammonite and a Moabite to the convocation of God, even to forever;

Deuteronomy 17:15

Setting, thou shalt set over thee a king whom Jehovah thy God shall choose in him: from the midst of thy brethren thou shalt set over thee a king: thou shalt not be able to set over thee a foreigner who is not of thy brethren.

Nehemiah 13:3

And it will be in their hearing the law, and they will separate all the mixture from Israel.

Exodus 21:8

If evil in the eyes of her lord, he did not betroth her and he ransomed her: to a strange people he shall not have power to sell her, in his acting deceitfully by her.

Leviticus 25:45

And from the sons of the sojourner sojourning with you, from them shall ye buy, and from their families which are with you, which were born in your land: and they were to you for a possession.

Deuteronomy 14:21

Ye shall not eat any carcass: to the stranger that is in thy gates ye shall give it, and he shall eat it; or sell it to a foreigner: for thou a holy people to Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in his mother's milk.

Deuteronomy 15:3

Foreigners thou shalt exact of, and what shall be to thee with thy brother thine hand shall remit:

Deuteronomy 23:20

To a foreigner thou shalt lend on interest; and to thy brother thou shalt not lend on interest: so that Jehovah thy God shall bless thee in all the stretching forth of thy hand upon the land which thou goest there to possess it

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