Exodus 12:47

All Israelites are to celebrate it.

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In The King James Version

All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.

In Context

46It has to be eaten inside the house. You are not allowed to take any of the meat outside the house, or to break any of the bones.

48If there's a foreigner who lives with you and wants to celebrate the Lord's Passover, all the males in their household have to be circumcised. Then he may come and celebrate it, and he shall be treated like a native of the land. But no man who is not circumcised may eat it.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:6Keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the Israelites will slaughter the animals after sunset and before it gets dark.

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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