Exodus 12:43 - Easy To Read Version The Lord told Moses and Aaron, “Here are the rules for Passover: No foreigner is to eat the Passover. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: there shall no stranger eat thereof: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the Passover: No foreigner shall eat of it; American Standard Version (1901) And Jehovah said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: there shall no foreigner eat thereof; Common English Bible The LORD said to Moses and Aaron: This is the regulation for the Passover. No foreigner may eat it. Catholic Public Domain Version And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron: "This is the religious observance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat from it. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: This is the service of the Phase. No foreigner shall eat of it. |
“When you eat the meal, you must be fully dressed like you are going on a journey. You must have your shoes on your feet and your walking stick in your hand. You must eat in a hurry. Why? Because this is the Lord’s Passover [64] —{the time when the Lord protected his people and led them quickly out of Egypt}.
If a non-Israelite lives with you, and if he wants to share in the Lord’s Passover, then he must be circumcised. [78] Then he will be the same as any other citizen of Israel, so he can share in the meal. But if a man is not circumcised, then he cannot eat the Passover meal.
You brought foreigners into my temple—and those people were not truly circumcised {\cf2\super [417]} —they did not give themselves completely to me. In this way you made my temple unclean. You broke our agreement and did terrible things, and then you gave me the offerings of bread, the fat, and the blood. But this only made my temple unclean.
Only people from a priest’s family can eat the holy food. A visitor staying with the priest or a hired worker must not eat any of the holy food.
A priest’s daughter might become a widow, [393] or she might become divorced. If she does not have any children {to support her} and she goes back to her father’s house {where she lived} as a child, then she can eat some of her father’s food. But only people from a priest’s family can eat this food.
“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.”
Remember that in the past you were without Christ. You were not citizens of Israel. {\cf2\super [11]} And you did not have the agreements {\cf2\super [12]} with the promise \{that God made to his people\}. You had no hope, and you did not know God.
A man of God [26] came to Eli and said, “The Lord says these things, ‘Your ancestors [27] were slaves of Pharaoh’s family. But I appeared to your ancestors [28] at that time.