Zipporah gave birth to a son, and Moses named him Gershom, saying, “I have become a foreigner in a foreign land.”
“I am a foreigner and stranger among you. Sell me some property for a burial site here so I can bury my dead.”
they wandered from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another.
We are foreigners and strangers in your sight, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.
I am a stranger on earth; do not hide your commands from me.
“Hear my prayer, Lord, listen to my cry for help; do not be deaf to my weeping. I dwell with you as a foreigner, a stranger, as all my ancestors were.
When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses, saying, “I drew him out of the water.”
“Do not mistreat or oppress a foreigner, for you were foreigners in Egypt.
So Moses took his wife and sons, put them on a donkey and started back to Egypt. And he took the staff of God in his hand.
“ ‘The land must not be sold permanently, because the land is mine and you reside in my land as foreigners and strangers.
When Moses heard this, he fled to Midian, where he settled as a foreigner and had two sons.
There the Danites set up for themselves the idol, and Jonathan son of Gershom, the son of Moses, and his sons were priests for the tribe of Dan until the time of the captivity of the land.
So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, “Because I asked the Lord for him.”