You must not hate an Edomite, for he is your relative;<n id="1" /> you must not hate an Egyptian, for you lived as a foreigner<n id="2" /> in his land.

<p class="bodytext">David said to the young man who told this to him, &#8220;Where are you from?&#8221; He replied, &#8220;I am an Amalekite, the son of a resident foreigner.&#8221;<n id="1" />

<p class="poetry">Hear my prayer, O <sc>Lordsc>!p> <p class="poetry">Listen to my cry for help!p> <p class="poetry">Do not ignore my sobbing!<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">For I am dependent on you, like one residing outside his native land;p> <p class="poetry">I am at your mercy, just as all my ancestors were.<n id="2" />p>

Stop oppressing foreigners who live in your land, children who have lost their fathers, and women who have lost their husbands.<n id="1" /> Stop killing innocent people<n id="2" /> in this land. Stop paying allegiance to<n id="3" /> other gods. That will only bring about your ruin.<n id="4" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;When a foreigner lives<n id="1" /> with you and wants to observe the Passover to the <sc>Lordsc>, all his males must be circumcised,<n id="2" /> and then he may approach and observe it, and he will be like one who is born in the land<n id="3" /> &#8211; but no uncircumcised person may eat of it.

If a resident foreigner lives<n id="1" /> among you and wants to keep<n id="2" /> the Passover to the <sc>Lordsc>, he must do so according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its custom. You must have<n id="3" /> the same<n id="4" /> statute for the resident foreigner<n id="5" /> and for the one who was born in the land.&#8217;&#8221;p>

Suppose a Levite comes by his own free will<n id="1" /> from one of your villages, from any part of Israel where he is living,<n id="2" /> to the place the <sc>Lordsc> chooses

<t /><p class="bodytext">In those days Israel had no king. There was a Levite<n id="1" /> living temporarily in the remote region of the Ephraimite hill country. He acquired a concubine<n id="2" /> from Bethlehem<n id="3" /> in Judah.

<p class="bodytext">But then an old man passed by, returning at the end of the day from his work in the field.<n id="1" /> The man was from the Ephraimite hill country; he was living temporarily in Gibeah. (The residents of the town were Benjaminites.)<n id="2" />

Anyone who survives in any of those places where he is a resident foreigner must be helped by his neighbors<n id="1" /> with silver, gold, equipment, and animals, along with voluntary offerings for the temple of God which is in Jerusalem.&#8217;&#8221;p>

<p class="poetry">So in this way Jacob&#8217;s sin will be forgiven,<n id="1" />p> <p class="poetry">and this is how they will show they are finished sinning:<n id="2" />p> <p class="poetry">They will make all the stones of the altars<n id="3" />p> <p class="poetry">like crushed limestone,p> <p class="poetry">and the Asherah poles and the incense altars will no longer stand.<n id="4" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;I<n id="1" /> will come to you in judgment. I will be quick to testify against those who practice divination, those who commit adultery, those who break promises,<n id="2" /> and those who exploit workers, widows, and orphans,<n id="3" /> who refuse to help<n id="4" /> the immigrant<n id="5" /> and in this way show they do not fear me,&#8221; says the <sc>Lordsc> who rules over all.p>