Exodus 12:44

But every bought servant shall be circumcised, and so shall eat.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

But every man’s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.

In Context

43And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: This is the service of the Phase: No foreigner shall eat of it.

45The stranger and the hireling shall not eat thereof.

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Cross References

Genesis 17:23And Abraham took Ismael his son, and all that were born in his house: and all whom he had bought, every male among the men of his house: and he circumcised the flesh of their foreskin forthwith the very same day, as God had commanded him.

Matthew Henry on Exodus 12:44-51

Directions Concerning the Passover. ( b. c. 1491.) 43 And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof: 44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof. 45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof. 46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof. 47 All the congregation of Israel… Read the whole commentary →

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