'Foreign' in the Bible

Then the Lord said to Abram, "Know for certain that your descendants will be strangers in a foreign country. They will be enslaved and oppressed for four hundred years.

So Jacob said to his family and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your clothes.

Then they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and their earrings, and Jacob hid them under the oak near Shechem.