And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.
Parallel translations
- WEB Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,
- KJV And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
- NKJV And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover: No foreigner shall eat it.
- NASB And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover: no foreigner is to eat it;
- NLT Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “These are the instructions for the festival of Passover. No outsiders are allowed to eat the Passover meal.
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Quick answer
The LORD gives the ordinance of the Passover, beginning with the rule that no foreigner may eat of it.
Overview
God now sets the boundaries of participation in the Passover meal. The restriction is not ethnic prejudice but covenantal: the meal belongs to those joined to God's covenant people. As the following verses make clear, outsiders may be included through circumcision, the covenant sign. The ordinance guards the holiness of the redemptive feast while leaving the door open to genuine inclusion.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Exod 12:48If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.
- Num 9:14If a foreigner dwelling among you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the foreigner and the native of the land.’”
- Exod 12:11This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.
- Lev 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.
- Eph 2:12remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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