>>510121614you’re right.. it doesn’t mean the same as it does today. it refers to a non-Israelite living among the Israelites, often long-term, and without land or kinship rights. the Torah’s repeated commands to protect them meant to elevate their status, giving them legal protections and moral parity with native-born Israelites. today it resembles more closely a modern-day immigrant, refugee, or stateless person. the passage calls for dignity and equality for those without power or status, and it roots that command not in legalism but in shared historical suffering: “for you were strangers in the land of Egypt.”