Then He said to Abram: “Know certainly that your descendants will be strangers in a land that is not theirs, and will serve them, and they will afflict them four hundred years.

Are we not considered strangers by him? For he has sold us, and also completely consumed our money.

For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they were strangers could not support them because of their livestock.

I have also established My covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land of their pilgrimage, in which they were strangers.

“You shall neither mistreat a stranger nor oppress him, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

“Also you shall not oppress a stranger, for you know the heart of a stranger, because you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

“Also you shall say to them: ‘Whatever man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, who offers a burnt offering or sacrifice,

‘And whatever man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, who eats any blood, I will set My face against that person who eats blood, and will cut him off from among his people.

“Whatever man of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell among you, who hunts and catches any animal or bird that may be eaten, he shall pour out its blood and cover it with dust;

The stranger who dwells among you shall be to you as one born among you, and you shall love him as yourself; for you were strangers in the land of Egypt: I am the Lord your God.

“Again, you shall say to the children of Israel: ‘Whoever of the children of Israel, or of the strangers who dwell in Israel, who gives any of his descendants to Molech, he shall surely be put to death. The people of the land shall stone him with stones.

“Speak to Aaron and his sons, and to all the children of Israel, and say to them: ‘Whatever man of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, who offers his sacrifice for any of his vows or for any of his freewill offerings, which they offer to the Lord as a burnt offering—

Redemption of Property

‘The land shall not be sold permanently, for the land is Mine; for you are strangers and sojourners with Me.

Moreover you may buy the children of the strangers who dwell among you, and their families who are with you, which they beget in your land; and they shall become your property.

Therefore love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.

There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded which Joshua did not read before all the assembly of Israel, with the women, the little ones, and the strangers who were living among them.

When you were few in number, Indeed very few, and strangers in it.

For strangers have risen up against me, And oppressors have sought after my life; They have not set God before them. Selah

When they were few in number, Indeed very few, and strangers in it.

Let the creditor seize all that he has, And let strangers plunder his labor.

The Lord watches over the strangers; He relieves the fatherless and widow; But the way of the wicked He turns upside down.

Let them be only your own, And not for strangers with you.

Your country is desolate, Your cities are burned with fire; Strangers devour your land in your presence; And it is desolate, as overthrown by strangers.

Then the lambs shall feed in their pasture, And in the waste places of the fat ones strangers shall eat.

Mercy on Jacob

For the Lord will have mercy on Jacob, and will still choose Israel, and settle them in their own land. The strangers will be joined with them, and they will cling to the house of Jacob.