Quotes about Inclusion
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.
- Leviticus 19:34
or who is a hunchback or dwarf, or who has an eye defect, a festering rash, scabs, or a crushed testicle.
- Leviticus 21:20
You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’”
- Leviticus 24:22
Now if your countryman becomes destitute and cannot support himself among you, then you are to help him as you would a foreigner or stranger, so that he can continue to live among you.
- Leviticus 25:35
“Do not allow the Kohathite tribal clans to be cut off from among the Levites.
- Numbers 4:18
The assembly is to have the same statute both for you and for the foreign resident; it is a permanent statute for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the LORD.
- Numbers 15:15
The same law and the same ordinance will apply both to you and to the foreigner residing with you.”
- Numbers 15:16
He executes justice for the fatherless and widow, and He loves the foreigner, giving him food and clothing.
- Deuteronomy 10:18
So you also must love the foreigner, since you yourselves were foreigners in the land of Egypt.
- Deuteronomy 10:19
And you shall rejoice in your feast—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite, as well as the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widows among you.
- Deuteronomy 16:14
No man with crushed or severed genitals may enter the assembly of the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 23:1
No Ammonite or Moabite or any of their descendants may enter the assembly of the LORD, even to the tenth generation.
- Deuteronomy 23:3