Hasn&#8217;t he treated us like foreigners? He not only sold us, but completely wasted<n id="1" /> the money paid for us!<n id="2" />

and on the first day of the first month they finished considering all the men who had married foreign wives.p>

<p class="bodytext">All these had taken foreign wives, and some of them also had children by these women.<n id="1" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">King Solomon fell in love with many foreign women (besides Pharaoh&#8217;s daughter), including Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites.

<p class="bodytext">Then Ezra the priest stood up and said to them, &#8220;You have behaved in an unfaithful manner by taking foreign wives! This has contributed to the guilt of Israel.

<t /><p class="bodytext">It was determined<n id="1" /> that from the descendants of the priests, the following had taken foreign wives: from the descendants of Jeshua son of Jozadak, and his brothers: Maaseiah, Eliezer, Jarib, and Gedaliah.

Should we then in your case hear that you do all this great evil, thereby being unfaithful to our God by marrying<n id="1" /> foreign wives?&#8221;p>

Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, from the descendants of Elam,<n id="1" /> addressed Ezra:p> <p class="bodytext">&#8220;We have been unfaithful to our God by marrying<n id="2" /> foreign women from the local peoples.<n id="3" /> Nonetheless, there is still hope for Israel in this regard.<n id="4" />

Let our leaders take steps<n id="1" /> on behalf of all the assembly. Let all those in our towns who have married foreign women come at an appointed time, and with them the elders of each town and its judges, until the hot anger of our God is turned away from us in this matter.&#8221;p>

<p class="lamhebrew">&#1504; (<i>Nuni>)p> <p class="poetry">Your word<n id="1" /> is a lamp to walk by,p> <p class="poetry">and a light to illumine my path.<n id="2" />p>

And if it seems advisable that I should go also, they will go with me.p>

Laban replied, &#8220;I&#8217;d rather give her to you than to another man.<n id="1" /> Stay with me.&#8221;

Now I&#8217;d like to ask you for just one thing. Please don&#8217;t refuse me.&#8221;<n id="1" /> She said, &#8220;Go ahead and ask.&#8221;<n id="2" />

The king then said to the prophet, &#8220;Come home with me and have something to eat. I&#8217;d like to give a present.&#8221;

Look, a time<n id="1" /> is coming &#8211; and has come &#8211; when you will be scattered, each one to his own home,<n id="2" /> and I will be left alone.<n id="3" /> Yet<n id="4" /> I am not alone, because my Father<n id="5" /> is with me.

I left here full,<n id="1" /> but the <sc>Lordsc> has caused me to return empty-handed.<n id="2" /> Why do you call me &#8216;Naomi,&#8217; seeing that<n id="3" /> the <sc>Lordsc> has opposed me,<n id="4" /> and the Sovereign One<n id="5" /> has caused me to suffer?&#8221;<n id="6" />

<p class="bodytext">Ruth<n id="1" /> knelt before him with her forehead to the ground<n id="2" /> and said to him, &#8220;Why are you so kind<n id="3" /> and so attentive to me,<n id="4" /> even though<n id="5" /> I am a foreigner?&#8221;<n id="6" />

<p class="bodytext">Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts,<n id="1" /> cried out,<n id="2" /> &#8220;You both know me and know where I come from!<n id="3" /> And I have not come on my own initiative,<n id="4" /> but the one who sent me<n id="5" /> is true. You do not know him,<n id="6" />