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.

Also I give to you and your descendants after you the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, as an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”

And give you the blessing of Abraham, To you and your descendants with you, That you may inherit the land In which you are a stranger, Which God gave to Abraham.”

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.

Joseph Dreams of Greatness

Now Jacob dwelt in the land where his father was a stranger, in the land of Canaan.

Joseph saw his brothers and recognized them, but he acted as a stranger to them and spoke roughly to them. Then he said to them, “Where do you come from?” And they said, “From the land of Canaan to buy food.”