The Law of Moses has much to say about how the people of God
were to treat foreigners.
Though there is some overlap in the Hebrew terminology,
context makes it clear foreigners were of two very different types. There was:
(1) the person of foreign origin who resided among the people of God,
often referred to as a sojourner; and (2) the true foreigner, whose place
of residence was elsewhere.
The latter term is sometimes translated “alien” or
“stranger”.
