Exodus 12:47 — Meaning and Application

King James Version

“All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. {keep...: Heb. do it}”

Exodus 12:47

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A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.

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 thereof.

All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. {keep...: Heb. do it}

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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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 to you."

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: {lamb: or, kid}"

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: {of...: Heb. son of a year}"

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. {in...: Heb. between the two evenings}"

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