What the Bible says about

Strangers

36 references · Nave's Topical Bible (1896) · tap any verse for study tools

“Your menservants and maidservants shall come from the nations around you, from whom you may purchase them.”
Leviticus 25:44 BSB
“You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.”
Leviticus 25:45 BSB
“You may collect something from a foreigner, but you must forgive whatever your brother owes you.”
Deuteronomy 15:3 BSB
“You may charge a foreigner interest, but not your brother, so that the LORD your God may bless you in everything to which you put your hand in the land that you are entering to possess.”
Deuteronomy 23:20 BSB
“You are not to eat any carcass; you may give it to the foreigner residing within your gates, and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. For you are a holy people belonging to the LORD your God. You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”
Deuteronomy 14:21 BSB
“you are to appoint over yourselves the king whom the LORD your God shall choose. Appoint a king from among your brothers; you are not to set over yourselves a foreigner who is not one of your brothers.”
Deuteronomy 17:15 BSB
“And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.”
Exodus 12:43 BSB
“If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.”
Exodus 12:48 BSB
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