54 occurrences

'Sojourner' in the Bible

I am a stranger and a sojourner with you. Give me a possession of a burying-place with you, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.

Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimPilgrims, Examples OfUnseenReckoned As ForeignersThe Cave Of Machpelah

And she bare a son, and he called his name Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land.

Verse ConceptsSojourningReckoned As ForeignersPeople With Apt Names

Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or one that is born in the land.

Verse ConceptsFeast Of Unleavened BreadDisfellowshipSeven DaysForeigners Included In The LawThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof.

and her two sons; of whom the name of the one was Gershom; for he said, I have been a sojourner in a foreign land:

Verse ConceptsReckoned As ForeignersTwo SonsPeople With Apt Names

Six days thou shalt do thy work, and on the seventh day thou shalt rest; that thine ox and thine ass may have rest, and the son of thy handmaid, and the sojourner, may be refreshed.

Verse ConceptsOxenDonkeysHolidayLaw, OtSlavery, In OtEmployeesRecreationAliens, Believers DutyAnimals, Types OfThe Seventh Day Of The WeekSix DaysDay 7Doing One's WorkNo Work On Feast DaysSabbaths InstitutedRestrelaxation

And every soul that eateth that which dieth of itself, or that which is torn of beasts, whether he be home-born or a sojourner, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even: then shall he be clean.

Verse ConceptsRitual WashingWaterAnimals Torn To PiecesCorpses Of AnimalsClean ClothesUnclean Until EveningForbidden Foodnatural Death

And thou shalt not glean thy vineyard, neither shalt thou gather the fallen fruit of thy vineyard; thou shalt leave them for the poor and for the sojourner: I am Jehovah your God.

Verse ConceptsGrapesOppression, God's Attitude ToPoverty, Remedies ForRightsVineyardStrangersGleaningLoving ForeignersThe Lord Is GodLaws About AgricultureAliens

There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest's, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

Verse ConceptsLaws Restricting Foreigners

And when ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not wholly reap the corners of thy field, neither shalt thou gather the gleaning of thy harvest: thou shalt leave them for the poor, and for the sojourner: I am Jehovah your God.

Verse ConceptsGleaningForeignersethics, socialHarvestLand, As A Divine ResponsibilityPoverty, Remedies ForSowing And ReapingAliens, Believers DutyCapitalismStrangersLoving ForeignersThe Lord Is GodLaws About AgricultureEconomicsThe poorStrangers in israelImmigrantsAliensFarmingFeeding The Poor

And he that blasphemeth the name of Jehovah, he shall surely be put to death; all the congregation shall certainly stone him: as well the sojourner, as the home-born, when he blasphemeth the name of Jehovah , shall be put to death.

Verse ConceptsDeath penaltyStrangersProfaning God's NameForeigners Included In The LawInstructions About StoningDeath Penalty For Heresy

And if thy brother be waxed poor, and his hand fail with thee; then thou shalt uphold him: as a stranger and a sojourner shall he live with thee.

Verse ConceptsLiberalityethics, socialGenerosity, HumanGenerosity, Used TowardsLove To Others Shown InStrangersPoor PeopleLoving Foreigners

As a hired servant, and as a sojourner, he shall be with thee; he shall serve with thee unto the year of jubilee:

Verse ConceptsYearssales

And if a stranger or sojourner with thee be waxed rich, and thy brother be waxed poor beside him, and sell himself unto the stranger or'sojourner with thee, or to the stock of the stranger's family;

Verse ConceptsPoor People

And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto Jehovah; according to the statute of the passover, and according to the ordinance thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one statute, both for the sojourner, and for him that is born in the land.

Verse ConceptsGentiles, In OtOrdinancesPassoverAliens, Believers DutyStrangersForeigners Permitted At The FeastsForeigners Included In The Law

For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you, and for the stranger that sojourneth with you , a statute for ever throughout your generations: as ye are, so shall the sojourner be before Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsOrdinancesForeigners Included In The Law

But the soul that doeth aught with a high hand, whether he be home-born or a sojourner, the same blasphemeth Jehovah; and that soul shall be cut off from among his people.

Verse ConceptsBanishmentdefianceHell, As Incentive To ActionIrreverencePresumptionExcommunicationInfidelity To GodMan's PurposesDeath Penalty For ViolenceThose To Be Cut Off From Israel

For the children of Israel, and for the stranger and for the sojourner among them, shall these six cities be for refuge; that every one that killeth any person unwittingly may flee thither.

Verse ConceptsManslaughterStrangersAccidental KillingsForeigners Included In The LawUnintentionalAliens

And I charged your judges at that time, saying, Hear the causes between your brethren, and judge righteously between a man and his brother, and the sojourner that is with him.

Verse ConceptsCourtsJudgesMagistratesJudging RightlyForeigners Included In The Law

Ye shall not eat of anything that dieth of itself: thou mayest give it unto the sojourner that is within thy gates, that he may eat it; or thou mayest sell it unto a foreigner: for thou art a holy people unto Jehovah thy God. Thou shalt not boil a kid in its mother's milk.

Verse ConceptsForeignersFindingMilkRitual LawEcologyStrangersYoung AnimalAnimal MothersDeath Of CreaturesCorpses Of AnimalsLaws Restricting ForeignersForbidden Foodnatural Deathpork

and the Levite, because he hath no portion nor inheritance with thee, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates, shall come, and shall eat and be satisfied; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hand which thou doest.

Verse ConceptsPoverty, Attitudes TowardsSatisfactionSaints, Care For The PoorWidows, Should BeLoving ForeignersGod Will BlessNo Earthly InheritancePeople Helping Orphansfriendliness

and thou shalt rejoice before Jehovah thy God, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite that is within thy gates, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are in the midst of thee, in the place which Jehovah thy God shall choose, to cause his name to dwell there.

Verse ConceptsOrphansPoverty, Attitudes TowardsWidowsWidows, Should BeRejoicingForeigners Permitted At The FeastsPeople Helping OrphansEating Drinking And RejoicingA Place For God's Name

and thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy man-servant, and thy maid-servant, and the Levite, and the sojourner, and the fatherless, and the widow, that are within thy gates.

Verse ConceptsWidowsForeigners Permitted At The FeastsPeople Helping OrphansEating Drinking And Rejoicing

Thou shalt not abhor an Edomite; for he is thy brother: thou shalt not abhor an Egyptian, because thou wast a sojourner in his land.

Verse ConceptsOppression, Nature OfRevenge, And RetaliationAbhorOppressing ForeignersNot HatingTwin BrothersStrangers in israel

When thou reapest thy harvest in thy field, and hast forgot a sheaf in the field, thou shalt not go again to fetch it: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow; that Jehovah thy God may bless thee in all the work of thy hands.

Verse ConceptsForeignersBinding cornBereaved, Care ForGrainOrphansSowing And ReapingWidowsAutumnAliensSuccess And Hard Work

When thou beatest thine olive-tree, thou shalt not go over the boughs again: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

Verse ConceptsBranches, Types OfDoing Things TwiceOlive Trees

When thou gatherest the grapes of thy vineyard, thou shalt not glean it after thee: it shall be for the sojourner, for the fatherless, and for the widow.

Verse ConceptsGrapesVineyardDoing Things Twice

and thou shalt rejoice in all the good which Jehovah thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thy house, thou, and the Levite, and the sojourner that is in the midst of thee.

Verse ConceptsGod, Goodness OfJoy, Of IsraelLoving ForeignersEating Drinking And Rejoicing

When thou hast made an end of tithing all the tithe of thine increase in the third year, which is the year of tithing, then thou shalt give it unto the Levite, to the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, that they may eat within thy gates, and be filled.

Verse ConceptsGiving, Of PossessionsCropsForeignersethics, socialBereaved, Care ForSatisfactionWidowsAliensTithes And Offering

And thou shalt say before Jehovah thy God, I have put away the hallowed things out of my house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the sojourner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all thy commandment which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed any of thy commandments, neither have I forgotten them:

Verse ConceptsNot Forgetting

The sojourner that is in the midst of thee shall mount up above thee higher and higher; and thou shalt come down lower and lower.

Verse ConceptsForeignersImmigrantsAliens

your little ones, your wives, and thy sojourner that is in the midst of thy camps, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water;

Verse ConceptsDrawing WaterFirewoodAliens

Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and thy sojourner that is within thy gates, that they may hear, and that they may learn, and fear Jehovah your God, and observe to do all the words of this law;

Verse ConceptsForeignersCovenant breakersdiscipleship, nature ofLearning From Other PeopleMale And FemaleOutsidersAliens, Believers DutyAssembling IsraelForeigners Included Among The PeopleKeep The Commandments!Aliens

And all Israel, and their elders and officers, and their judges, stood on this side of the ark and on that side before the priests the Levites, that bare the ark of the covenant of Jehovah, as well the sojourner as the homeborn; half of them in front of mount Gerizim, and half of them in front of mount Ebal; as Moses the servant of Jehovah had commanded at the first, that they should bless the people of Israel.

Verse ConceptsArk Of The Covenant, EventsJudgesFractions, One HalfHalf Of GroupsPriests In Action

And David said unto the young man that told him, Whence art thou? And he answered, I am the son of a sojourner, an Amalekite.

Verse ConceptsWhere From?

Hear my prayer, O Jehovah, and give ear unto my cry; Hold not thy peace at my tears: For I am a stranger with thee, A sojourner, as all my fathers were.

Verse ConceptsBeing A PilgrimSilenceWeepingPilgrimsPilgrims, Examples OfSpiritual DeafnessTearsCryingReckoned As ForeignersHear Prayer!Pay Attention O God!Feelings Of Alienation

I am a sojourner in the earth: Hide not thy commandments from me.

Verse ConceptsPilgrimsReckoned As ForeignersGod's Things Concealed

if ye oppress not the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

Verse ConceptsForeignersOppression, Nature OfWidows, Should Not BeSheddingOppressing ForeignersDifferent GodsDo Not MurderPenalties For Serving Other Gods

O thou hope of Israel, the Saviour thereof in the time of trouble, why shouldest thou be as a sojourner in the land, and as a wayfaring man that turneth aside to tarry for a night?

Verse ConceptsGod, Titles And Names OfHope, As ConfidenceHope, Results OfTravellersCitizenshipReckoned As Foreigners

Thus saith Jehovah: Execute ye justice and righteousness, and deliver him that is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor: and do no wrong, do no violence, to the sojourner, the fatherless, nor the widow; neither shed innocent blood in this place.

Verse ConceptsCruelty, God's attitude toAliens, God's AttitudeExploitationsBereaved, Care ForSocial JusticeInnocence, Teaching OnOppression, Nature OfOppression, God's Attitude ToOrphansOutsidersRighteousness, Of BelieversSanctity Of LifeViolenceWidows, Should Not BeSheddingOppressing ForeignersSaving PeopleDo Not MurderRobbing PeopleImmigrants

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Sojourner (85 instances)

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