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Exodus 12:45 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat "
Exodus 12:45
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And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat
But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat
A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat
In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone
All the congregation of Israel shall keep
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Exodus 12:1
"And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,"
Exodus 12:2
"This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year"
Exodus 12:3
"Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:"
Exodus 12:4
"And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb."
Exodus 12:5
"Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:"
Exodus 12:6
"And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening."
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