And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover: No foreigner shall eat 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:
- BSB And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of 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 12:48When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
- Num 9:14“‘If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh; according to the statute of the Passover, and according to its ordinance, so shall he do. You shall have one statute, both for the foreigner, and for him who is born in the land.’”
- Exod 12:11This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh’s Passover.
- Lev 22:10“‘No stranger shall eat of the holy thing: a foreigner living with the priests, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
- Eph 2:12that you were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no 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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