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Now there was a famine in the land. So Abram went down to Egypt to reside there as an alien, for the famine was severe in the land.
Then the Lord * said to Abram, Know this for certain, that your offspring shall be aliens in a land that is not theirs, and shall be slaves there, and they shall be oppressed for four hundred years;
And I will give to you, and to your offspring after you, the land where you are now an alien, all the land of Canaan, for a perpetual holding; and I will be their God.
But they replied, Stand back! And they said, This fellow came here as an alien, and he would play the judge! Now we will deal worse with you than with them. Then they pressed hard against the man Lot, and came near the door to break it down.
From there Abraham journeyed towards the region of the Negeb, and settled between Kadesh and Shur. While residing in Gerar as an alien,
now therefore swear to me here by God that you will not deal falsely with me or with my offspring or with my posterity, but as I have dealt loyally with you, you will deal with me and with the land where you have resided as an alien.
And Abraham resided as an alien for many days in the land of the Philistines.
I am a stranger and an alien residing among you; give me property among you for a burying-place, so that I may bury my dead out of my sight.
Reside in this land as an alien, and I will be with you, and will bless you; for to you and to your descendants I will give all these lands, and I will fulfil the oath that I swore to your father Abraham.
May he give to you the blessing of Abraham, to you and to your offspring with you, so that you may take possession of the land where you now live as an alienland that God gave to Abraham.
instructing them, Thus you shall say to my lord Esau: Thus says your servant Jacob, I have lived with Laban as an alien, and stayed until now;
Jacob came to his father Isaac at Mamre, or Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron), where Abraham and Isaac had resided as aliens.
Jacob settled in the land where his father had lived as an alien, the land of Canaan.
They said to Pharaoh, We have come to reside as aliens in the land; for there is no pasture for your servants flocks because the famine is severe in the land of Canaan. Now, we ask you, let your servants settle in the land of Goshen.
She bore a son, and he named him Gershom; for he said, I have been an alien* residing in a foreign land.
I also established my covenant with them, to give them the land of Canaan, the land in which they resided as aliens.
For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether an alien or a native of the land.
If an alien who resides with you wants to celebrate the passover to the Lord, all his males shall be circumcised; then he may draw near to celebrate it; he shall be regarded as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it;
there shall be one law for the native and for the alien who resides among you.
along with her two sons. The name of one was Gershom (for he said, I have been an alien* in a foreign land),
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