These were the cities selected for all the people of Isra’el and for the foreigner living among them, so that anyone who kills any person by mistake could flee there and not die at the hand of the next-of-kin avenger prior to standing trial before the community.

For everyone, whether from the house of Isra’el or a foreigner living in Isra’el, who separates himself from me and takes his idols into his heart, thus setting in front of himself the stumblingblock that leads to sin, and then comes to the prophet, asking him to consult me for him, I myself, Adonai, will answer him.

Here is what Adonai Elohim says: ‘No foreigner, uncircumcised in both heart and flesh, is to enter my sanctuary — no foreigner living among the people of Isra’el.

You are to divide it by lot as an inheritance both to you and to the foreigners living among you who give birth to children living among you; for you they are to be no different from the native-born among the people of Isra’el — they are to have an inheritance with you among the tribes of Isra’el.

You are to give the foreigner an inheritance in the territory of the tribe with whom he is living,’ says Adonai Elohim.

“You will know that I am Adonai your God, living on Tziyon my holy mountain.” Then Yerushalayim will be holy, and foreigners will pass through her no more.

Those living in my house consider me a stranger; my slave-girls too — in their view I’m a foreigner.

(All the Athenians and the foreigners living there used to spend their spare time talking or hearing about the latest intellectual fads.)