God's people are called to treat foreigners with kindness and respect, reflecting His own character of love and compassion. In Leviticus and Exodus, specific laws are given to protect the rights of foreigners, such as not oppressing them and not perverting justice due to them. The book of Deuteronomy reminds the Israelites that they were once foreigners in Egypt, and therefore should show empathy and understanding towards those in similar circumstances. By following these commands, believers demonstrate their love for God and their obedience to His Word, as seen in passages like Leviticus 19:34, where foreigners are to be treated as native-born.
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When a foreigner resides with you in your land, you must not oppress him. You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Do not oppress a foreign resident, since you yourselves know how it feels to be foreigners; for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
You must not exploit or oppress a foreign resident, for you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
You must treat the foreigner living among you as native-born and love him as yourself, for you were foreigners in the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for by so doing some people have entertained angels without knowing it.
The LORD protects foreigners; He sustains the fatherless and the widow, but the ways of the wicked He frustrates.
“Then I will draw near to you for judgment. And I will be a swift witness against sorcerers and adulterers and perjurers, against oppressors of the widowed and fatherless, and against those who defraud laborers of their wages and deny justice to the foreigner but do not fear Me,” says the LORD of Hosts.
For I was hungry and you gave Me something to eat, I was thirsty and you gave Me something to drink, I was a stranger and you took Me in,
You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’”