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Numbers 9:14

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“A foreigner living among you might want to share in the Lord’s Passover [146] with you. This is allowed, but that person must follow all the rules about Passover. The same rules are for everyone.”

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So all the people of Israel that came back from captivity ate the Passover meal. Other people washed themselves and made themselves pure from the unclean {\cf2\super [40]} things of the people living in that country. Those pure people also shared in the Passover meal. Those people did this so they could go to the Lord, the God of Israel, for help.

The Lord told Moses and Aaron, “Here are the rules for Passover: No foreigner is to eat the Passover.

The whole community of Israel must do this ceremony.

Don’t pick all the grapes in your vineyards and don’t pick up the grapes that fall to the ground. Why? Because you must leave those things for poor people and for people traveling through your country. I am the Lord your God!

“You must not take animals from foreigners as sacrifices to the Lord. Why? Because the animals might have been hurt in some way. They might have something wrong with them. They will not be accepted!”

“The law will be {fair}—it will be the same for foreigners and for people from your own country. Why? Because I am the Lord your God.”

If you want to buy your neighbor’s land, then count the number of years since the last Jubilee, {and use that number to decide the right price}. Why? Because he is really only selling you the rights for harvesting crops {until the next Jubilee}.

The same rules will be for everyone—the people of Israel and the foreigners living in your country. This law will continue forever. You and the people living among you will be the same before the Lord.

This means that you must follow the same laws and the same rules. Those laws and rules are for you people of Israel and for the other people who are living among you.”

Your wives and children are here and also the foreigners living among you—the people who cut your wood and bring you water.

Bring together all the people—the men, the women, the little children, and the foreigners living in your cities. They will hear the Teachings, and they will learn to respect the Lord your God. Then they will be able to do all the things in the Teachings.




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