Exodus 12:45

A temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover.

Majority Standard Bible

In The King James Version

A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.

In Context

44But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.

46It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of the bones.

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Cross References

Leviticus 22:10No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.

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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