Relevant Verses: Deuteronomy 10:1–19; 23:7; 24:19, 20

Theme: How to Treat the Other

Leading Question: Why do we have trouble with a God who calls for justice?

ou will not find the term “refugee” in the Bible. But the Bible has plenty to say about people called “strangers,” “sojourners,” or “foreigners,” and some Bibles even have “aliens.” The book of Deuteronomy has the most occurrences of the Hebrew word ger, meaning “stranger” (22 times). A “stranger” refers to anybody who was from another ethnic group but lived among the tribes of Israel. Often the reason was that such a person came to ...