When a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, and would like to keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it. He shall be as one who is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.”
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Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it, but every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it. A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it. It must be eaten in one house. You shall not carry any of the meat outside of the house. Do not break any of its bones. All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. When a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, and would like to keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it. He shall be as one who is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.” All the children of Israel did so. As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. That same day, Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
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When a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, and would like to keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it. He shall be as one who is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.”
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And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
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And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.'
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- Numbers 9:14 (vv48–49) “ ‘If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh, then he shall do so according to the statute of the…
- Numbers 15:15-16 (vv48–49) For the assembly, there shall be one statute for you and for the stranger who lives as a foreigner, a statute forever throughout your…
- Numbers 15:29 (v49) You shall have one law for him who does anything unwittingly, for him who is native-born among the children of Israel, and for the stranger…
- Colossians 3:11 (v48) where there can’t be Greek and Jew, circumcision and uncircumcision, barbarian, Scythian, bondservant, or free person; but Christ is all,…
- Galatians 3:28 (vv48–49) There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave nor free man, there is neither male nor female; for you are all one in Christ Jesus.
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- Leviticus 24:22 (v49) You shall have one kind of law for the foreigner as well as the native-born; for I am Yahweh your God.’ ”
- Exodus 12:19 (v48) There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the…
- Exodus 12:43 (v48) Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,
- Ezekiel 47:22 (v48) It will happen, that you shall divide it by lot for an inheritance to you and to the aliens who live among you, who will father children…
- Genesis 17:12 (v48) He who is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male throughout your generations, he who is born in the house, or bought with…
- Ezekiel 44:9 (v48) The Lord Yahweh says, “No foreigner, uncircumcised in heart and uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary, of any foreigners…
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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v49 They that are of the household of God, must…
They that are of the household of God, must be all joined in one faith and religion.
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John Trapp 1656 · Public Domain On vv48–49 Exo 12:48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with…
Exo 12:48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
Ver. 48. No uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.] The Chaldee hath it, No profane person. So God saith, "No stranger uncircumcised in heart, nor uncircumcised in flesh, shall enter into my sanctuary." {Eze 44:9}
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John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On v48 No stranger that was uncircumcised might eat of it.…
No stranger that was uncircumcised might eat of it. Neither may any now approach the Lord's supper who have not first submitted to baptism; nor shall any partake of the benefit of Christ's sacrifice, who are not first circumcised in heart. Any stranger that was circumcised might eat of the passover, even servants. Here is an indication of favour to the poor Gentiles, that the stranger, if circumcised, stands upon the same level with the home-born Israelite; one law for both. This was a mortification to the Jews, and taught them that it was their dedication to God, not their descent from Abraham, that entitled them to their privileges.
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Adam Clarke 1810 · Public Domain On vv48–49 Verse 48. And when a stranger - will keep…
Verse 48. And when a stranger - will keep the passover, &c.] Let all who sojourn among you, and who desire to partake of this sacred ordinance, not only be circumcised themselves, but all the males of their families likewise, that they may all have an equal right to the blessings of the covenant.
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Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary 1859 · Public Domain On v48 Dwell, or become a proselyte, by circumcision, if a…
Dwell, or become a proselyte, by circumcision, if a male; or by baptism, if a female; receiving a sort of new-birth, John iii. 10. The Jews would not suffer any to dwell among them, who would not observe the seven precepts given to Noe, Genesis ix. But the proselytes of justice embraced the Jewish religion. (Calmet)
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Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown 1871 · Public Domain On v49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn,…
One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger--This regulation displays the liberal spirit of the Hebrew institutions. Any foreigner might obtain admission to the privileges of the nation on complying with their sacred ordinances. In the Mosaic equally as in the Christian dispensation, privilege and duty were inseparably conjoined.
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The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv48–49 48. The ‘stranger,’ or, better, sojourner, Heb. gêr, i.e.…
48. The ‘stranger,’ or, better, sojourner, Heb. gêr, i.e. the protected foreigner, if he is circumcised, may keep the Passover. The gêr was like the Arab jâr, i.e. ‘a man of another tribe or district, who coming to sojourn in a place where he was not strengthened by the presence of his own kin, put himself under the protection of a clan or of a powerful chief’ (W.R. Smith, Relig. of the Semites, p. 75 f.; cf. his Kinship and Marriage in Early Arabia, pp. 41–43). ‘Stranger’ is the conventional rendering of gêr; but it is inadequate: a better word would be sojourner, which would also preserve the connexion with the corresponding verb in such passages as v. 49, Gen_12:10; Gen_19:9; Gen_47:4. In the legislation of JE and Deut. the gêr has no legal status in Israel, and is represented as liable to oppression (Exo_22:21; Exo_23:9, Deu_Exo_1:16, &c.): in P (cf. Eze_47:22) he is placed on practically the same footing as the native Israelite, he enjoys the same rights (Num_35:15 ‘for the sojourner and for the settler’ [above, on v. 45]; Lev_19:34 ‘thou shalt love him as thyself’), and is bound by the same laws (ch. Exo_12:19, Lev_16:29; Lev_17:8; Lev_17:10; Lev_17:12-13; Lev_17:15; Lev_18:26; Lev_20:2; Lev_22:18; Lev_24:16); the principle, ‘One law shall there be for the homeborn and for the gêr,’ is repeatedly affirmed (ch. Exo_12:49, Lev_24:22, Num_9:14; Num_15:15-16; Num_15:29). Indeed, in P the term is already on the way to assume the later technical sense of ‘proselyte,’ the foreigner who, being circumcised and observing the law generally, is in full religious communion with Israel.
come near] to take part in the sacred rite. So often in P, as Exo_40:32, Lev_9:5; Lev_9:7-8 (EVV. ‘draw near’), Exo_21:17 f. (‘approach’), Num_16:40.
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one that is born in] lit. a native of; the word, when standing alone, is rendered homeborn (v. 49). It denotes the native Israelite, as distinct, especially, from the gêr, or foreigner settled in Israel; cf. v. 19, Lev_16:29; Lev_17:15; Lev_18:26; Lev_19:34; Lev_23:42; Lev_24:16; Lev_24:22, Num_9:14; Num_15:13; Num_15:29-30.
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The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On v48 Vers. 48, 49. And when a stranger, etc. Here…
Vers. 48, 49. And when a stranger, etc. Here we have the positive ordinance corresponding to the implied permission in ver. 19, and modifying in the most important and striking way the prohibitive enactment of ver. 43. The "stranger," even if he only "sojourned" in the land, was to be put on exactly the same spiritual footing as the Israelite ("One law shall be," etc.) if only he and his would be circumcised, and so enter into covenant,
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unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On v49 as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron
as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron
"everything that Yahweh told Moses and Aaron to do"
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It came about
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by their armed groups
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law, laws
alien
command
Moses
Aaron
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