The LORDsaidto Mosesand Aaron,"Thisis the ordinanceof the Passover:noforeigneris to eatof it;
For a multitudeof the people,[even] manyfrom Ephraimand Manasseh,Issacharand Zebulun,had not purifiedthemselves, yetthey atethe Passoverotherwisethan prescribed.For Hezekiahprayedfor them, saying,"May the goodLORDpardon
Now you shall eatit in thismanner:[with] your loinsgirded,your sandalson your feet,and your staffin your hand;and you shall eatit in haste--it is the LORD'SPassover.
"But ifa strangersojournswith you, and celebratesthe Passoverto the LORD,let allhis malesbe circumcised,and thenlet him comenearto celebrateit; and he shall be like a nativeof the land.But nouncircumcisedperson may eatof it.
when you broughtin foreigners,uncircumcisedin heartand uncircumcisedin flesh,to be in My sanctuaryto profaneit, [even] My house,when you offeredMy food,the fatand the blood;for they madeMy covenantvoid--[this] in additionto allyour abominations.
Nolayman,however, is to eatthe holy[gift]; a sojournerwith the priestor a hiredmanshall not eatof the holy[gift].
But ifa priest'sdaughterbecomesa widowor divorced,and hasnochildand returnsto her father'shouseas in her youth,she shall eatof her father'sfood;but nolaymanshall eatof it.
Ifan aliensojournsamongyou and observesthe Passoverto the LORD,according to the statuteof the Passoverand according to its ordinance,sohe shall do;you shall haveonestatute,both for the alienand for the nativeof the land.'"
[remember] that you were at that timeseparatefrom Christ,excludedfrom the commonwealthof Israel,and strangersto the covenantsof promise,havingnohopeand without Godin the world.
Then a manof Godcameto Eliand saidto him, "Thussaysthe LORD,Did I [not] indeedrevealMyself to the houseof your fatherwhen they were in Egypt[in bondage] to Pharaoh'shouse?
