29 Bible Verses about Strangers in israel
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Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner. Remember that you were foreigners in Egypt.
Foreigners living among you will be like your own people. Love them as you love yourself, because you were foreigners living in Egypt. I am Jehovah your God.
You were separate from Christ at that time, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel. You were strangers from the covenants of the promise. You had no hope and were without God in the world.
Jehovah said to Abram: Know this for sure; your offspring will be strangers (aliens) in a land that is not theirs. They will be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years.
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.
So then you are no longer strangers and aliens. You are fellow citizens with the holy ones and of the household of God.
Jehovah will have compassion on Jacob and again choose Israel. He will resettle them in their own country. Foreigners will join them and unite with the descendants of Jacob.
No land may be permanently bought or sold. It all belongs to me! It is not your land! You only live there for a little while.
This law applies to all of you. It applies to Israelites and to foreigners living among you. I am Jehovah your God.'
Do not detest an Edomite for he is your brother. Do not detest an Egyptian, because you were an alien (strangers) (guests) in his land.
Never mistreat a foreigner living in your land.
When you harvest your fields, do not cut the grain at the edges of the fields. Do not go back to cut the heads of grain that were left. Leave them for poor people and foreigners. Jehovah is your God.'
Divide it by drawing lots. This land will be for you. It will also be for the foreign residents who live among you and have given birth to children while they lived with you. Think of them as Israelites. They will draw lots with you for their inheritance among the tribes of Israel.
Strangers will stand and shepherd your flocks. Foreigners will be your farmers and your vinedressers.
Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners destroy your fields in your presence. Your fields are devastated and taken over by strangers.
you shall surely set a king over you whom Jehovah your God chooses. It will be one from among your countrymen. You may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman.
The same regulations apply to native-born Israelites and to foreigners who settle among you.
The Lord Jehovah says: No foreigner uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, of all the foreigners who are among the sons of Israel, shall enter my sanctuary.'
God spoke to this effect, that his seed would be alien residents in a strange land. They would enslave them, and mistreat them for four hundred years.
People who are not Israelites will come from distant countries because of your great name, mighty hand, and powerful arm. When they come to pray facing this Temple,
People will take them and bring them to their own place. The nation of Israel will possess nations as male and female slaves in Jehovah's land. They will take their captors captive and rule their oppressors.
If Israelites or foreigners eat any blood, I will condemn them and exclude them from the people.
The same regulation applies to all who unintentionally commit a sin, whether they are native Israelites or resident foreigners.
He executes justice for the orphan and the widow. He shows His love for the alien by giving him food and clothing.
The seventh day is a Sabbath dedicated to Jehovah your God. Do not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you.
Tell them: 'If Israelites or foreigners make burnt offerings or sacrifices,
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.
The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they lived as strangers in the land of Egypt. He brought them out of Egypt with his great strength.
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Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To participate in the rejoicings of the people
This food is for the Levites, since they own no property, and for the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns. They are to come and get all they need. Do this, and Jehovah your God will bless you in everything you do.
Enjoy yourselves in the presence of Jehovah your God along with your sons, daughters, male and female slaves, the Levites who live in your cities, the foreigners, orphans, and widows who live among you. Enjoy yourselves at the place Jehovah your God will choose as a dwelling for his name.
You, the Levite and the alien among you will rejoice in all the good Jehovah your God has given you and your household.
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To have the gleaning of the 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.
When you harvest your fields, do not cut the grain at the edges of the fields. Do not go back to cut the heads of grain that were left. Leave them for poor people and foreigners. Jehovah is your God.'
When you reap your harvest in your field and have forgotten a sheaf in the field, you shall not go back to get it. It shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow, in order that Jehovah your God may bless you in all the work of your hands. When you beat the olives from your olive tree, you shall not go over the boughs again. It shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow. When you gather the grapes of your vineyard, you shall not go over it again. It shall be for the alien, for the orphan, and for the widow. read more.
You must remember that you were slaves in the land of Egypt. I am commanding you to do this.
Strangers in israel » Admitted to worship in the outer court of the temple
For he is our peace, who made both (Jews and Gentiles) one, and broke down the middle barrier of partition.
Do not measure the court outside the temple for it is given to the nations. They will tread the holy city under foot for forty-two months.
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.
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Might offer their burnt-offerings on the altar of God
Tell them: 'If Israelites or foreigners make burnt offerings or sacrifices,
Speak to Aaron, his sons, and all the Israelites, and tell them: 'Israelites or foreigners may bring burnt offerings to Jehovah for anything they vowed or as freewill offerings.
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.
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Not to work on the sabbath
The seventh day is a Sabbath dedicated to Jehovah your God. Do not do any work, you or your son or your daughter, your male or your female servant or your cattle or your sojourner who stays with you.
Work six days a week. Do no work on the seventh day. Allow your slaves and the foreigners who work for you and even your animals to rest.
The seventh day is the Sabbath of Jehovah your God: in it you should not do any work. Your son and daughter should not work. Your manservant and maidservant should not work. Your ox, donkey, cattle or any stranger living with you should not work. Your manservant and maidservant should rest as much as you do.
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Not to be vexed or oppressed
Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner. Remember that you were foreigners in Egypt.
Do not mistreat a foreigner. You know how it feels to be a foreigner. After all you were foreigners in Egypt.
Never mistreat a foreigner living in your land.
Strangers in israel » The jews condemned for oppressing
The people of the land have practiced oppression and committed robbery. They have wronged the poor and needy and have oppressed the sojourner without justice.'
People in you hate their fathers and mothers. They oppress foreigners in you. They oppress orphans and widows in you.'
Strangers in israel » Were frequently employed in public works
So David gave orders to assemble the foreigners living in Israel. He appointed stonecutters from among them to prepare dressed stone for building the house of God.
He directed seventy thousand of them carry heavy loads, eighty thousand of them quarry stone in the mountains, and three thousand six hundred of them supervise the work as foremen.
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To have justice done to them in all disputes
I charged your judges to hear the cases between your countrymen and judge righteously between every man and his brother, and the stranger with him.
Do not pervert the justice due an alien or an orphan. Do not take a widow's garment in pledge.
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To be loved
Foreigners living among you will be like your own people. Love them as you love yourself, because you were foreigners living in Egypt. I am Jehovah your God.
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To have the law read to them
Assemble the people, the men and the women and children and the alien who is in your town. Assemble them that they may hear and learn and respect Jehovah your God, and be careful to observe all the words of this Law.
He wrote upon the stones a copy of the Law of Moses. He did this in the presence of the children of Israel. All Israel, and their elders, and officers, and their judges, stood on both sides of the Ark before the priests. The Levites who carried the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, as well the stranger, as he that was born among them; Half of the people stood on Mount Gerizim. And half of them stood on Mount Ebal. As Moses the servant of Jehovah commanded before, that they should bless the people of Israel. Afterward he read all the words of the Law, the blessings and cursing, according to all that is written in the Book of the Law. read more.
There was not a word of all that Moses commanded that Joshua did not read before all the congregation of Israel, with the women, and the little ones, and the strangers that were conversant among them.
Strangers in israel » Chiefly consisted of » The remnant of the nations of the land
The Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites had been left in the land because the Israelites had not been able to destroy them. They were not Israelites.
Solomon used the descendants of the people of Canaan whom the Israelites had not killed when they took possession of their land as his forced labor. These included Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites.
Strangers in israel » Under the care and protection of God
He executes justice for the orphan and the widow. He shows His love for the alien by giving him food and clothing.
Jehovah protects the strangers. He supports the fatherless and the widow, but he overthrows the way of the wicked.
Strangers in israel » Chiefly consisted of » Persons who sought employment among the jews
King Hiram sent experienced sailors from his fleet to serve with Solomon's men.
Strangers in israel » Motives urged on the jews for being kind to
Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner. Remember that you were foreigners in Egypt.
Do not mistreat a foreigner. You know how it feels to be a foreigner. After all you were foreigners in Egypt.
Strangers in israel » Chiefly consisted of » Foreign servants
You may have male and female slaves, but buy them from the nations around you. You may also buy the children of the foreigners who are living among you. Such children born in your land may become your property.
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Might purchase hebrew servants subject to release
Suppose a foreigner living with you becomes rich, while some Israelites become poor and sell themselves as slaves to that foreigner or to a member of that foreigner's family. He has the right to be set free by a relative, such as a brother.
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » The jews might purchase and have them as slaves
You may have male and female slaves, but buy them from the nations around you. You may also buy the children of the foreigners who are living among you. Such children born in your land may become your property.
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Not to eat blood
If Israelites or foreigners eat any blood, I will condemn them and exclude them from the people. This is because life of every living thing is in the blood. I have given this blood to you to pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with me on the altar. Blood is needed to pay compensation for wrongdoing and make peace with me.' That is why I have said to the people of Israel: 'Neither you nor foreigners should ever eat blood.'
Strangers in israel » Chiefly consisted of » Captives taken in war
When you go to war with your enemies and Jehovah your God hands them over to you, you may take them captive.
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Not to be chosen as kings in israel
you shall surely set a king over you whom Jehovah your God chooses. It will be one from among your countrymen. You may not put a foreigner over yourselves who is not your countryman.
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Allowed to eat what died of itself
Do not eat anything that dies by itself. You may give it to the alien who is in your town, so that he may eat it. You may sell it to a foreigner, for you are a holy people to Jehovah your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother's milk.
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » The jews might take usury from
You may charge interest to a foreigner, but to your brother (countrymen) you shall not charge interest. That way Jehovah your God will bless you in all that you undertake in the land you are about to possess.
Strangers in israel » Very numerous in solomon's reign
Solomon counted all the men who were foreigners in the land of Israel, as his father David had counted them. Solomon counted one hundred and fifty-three thousand and six hundred foreigners.
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Not to eat the passover while uncircumcised
Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron: This is the ordinance of the Passover: no foreigner is to eat of it. After you have circumcised your purchased slave he may eat of it.
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To be relieved in distress
If an Israelite becomes poor and cannot support himself, you should help him. He must live with you as a stranger without a permanent home.
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Subject to the civil law
This law applies to all of you. It applies to Israelites and to foreigners living among you. I am Jehovah your God.'
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Not to blaspheme God
However those who curse Jehovah's name must be put to death. The whole congregation must stone them to death. It makes no difference whether they are Israelites or foreigners. Whoever curses (abuses) Jehovah's name must die.
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » Not to practice idolatrous rites
Tell the Israelites: 'If Israelites or foreigners living among you give one of their children as a sacrifice to the god Molech, they must be put to death. The common people must stone them to death.
Strangers in israel » Laws respecting » To enjoy the benefit of the cities of refuge
These six cities will be places of refuge for Israelites, foreigners, and strangers among you. Anyone who unintentionally kills another person may flee to these cities.
Strangers in israel » Chiefly consisted of » Persons who came into israel for the sake of religious privileges
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,
Strangers in israel » Chiefly consisted of » The remnant of the mixed multitude who came out of egypt
Many other people also went with them, along with large numbers of sheep, goats, and cattle.
Strangers in israel » All foreigners sojourning in israel were counted as
The same regulations apply to native-born Israelites and to foreigners who settle among you.