Exodus 12:47

All the community of Israel must observe the festival.

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All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.

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46The food must be eaten in one house. You must not carry any of the meat out of the house, and you must not break any bone of it.

48If a foreigner lives with you and wants to observe the Passover to Yahweh, all his male relatives must be circumcised. Then he may come and observe it. He will become like the people who were born in the land. However, no uncircumcised person may eat any of the food.

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Cross References

Exodus 12:6You must keep it until the fourteenth day of that month. Then the whole assembly of Israel must kill these animals at twilight.

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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