Exodus 2:22

22 She gave birth to a son, and he called his name Gershom, for he said, m“I have been a nsojourner1 in a foreign land.”

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Exodus 18:3
along with her two sons. The name of the one was Gershom (for he said, “I have been a sojourner in a foreign land”),

Genesis 23:4
“I am a sojourner and foreigner among you; give me property among you for a burying place, that I may bury my dead out of my sight.”

1 Chronicles 29:15
For we are strangers before you and sojourners, as all our fathers were. Our days on the earth are like a shadow, and there is no abiding.

Psalm 39:12
“Hear my prayer, O LORD, and give ear to my cry; hold not your peace at my tears! For I am a sojourner with you, a guest, like all my fathers.

Hebrews 11:13
These all died in faith, not having received the things promised, but having seen them and greeted them from afar, and having acknowledged that they were strangers and exiles on the earth.

1 Peter 2:11
Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles to abstain from the passions of the flesh, which wage war against your soul.


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ch. 21:5; [Isa. 15:2; Jer. 9:26; 48:37]