Deuteronomy 29:11
your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your firewood and carry your water.
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Exodus 12:48If there's a foreigner who lives with you and wants to celebrate the Lord's Passover, all the males in their household have to be circumcised. Then he may come and celebrate it, and he shall be treated like a native of the land. But no man who is not circumcised may eat it.
Deuteronomy 5:14but the seventh day is the Sabbath to honor the Lord your God. On this day you must not do any work—not you, not your son or daughter, not your male slave or female slave or your ox or donkey or any of your livestock, and not the foreigner who is staying with you, so that your male slave and female slave can have the same rest as you.
Joshua 9:21The leaders concluded, “Let them live.” So the Gibeonites became woodcutters and water-carriers in service to the entire assembly, as the Israelite leaders had ordered.
2 Kings 6:4So he went with them. When they got to the Jordan, they started cutting down trees.
2 Chronicles 23:16Then Jehoiada made a solemn agreement between himself and all the people and the king that they would be the Lord's people.
Galatians 3:28There's no longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female—you are all one in Christ Jesus.
Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 29:11-29
The Covenant Renewed. ( b. c. 1451.) 10 Ye stand this day all of you before the Lord your God; your captains of your tribes, your elders, and your officers, with all the men of Israel, 11 Your little ones, your wives, and thy stranger that is in thy camp, from the hewer of thy wood unto the drawer of thy water: 12 That thou shouldest enter into covenant with the Lord thy God, and into his oath, which the Lord thy God maketh with thee this day: 13 That he may establish thee to day for a people unto himself, and… Read the whole commentary →