Exodus 12:43

Translations

Modern

And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.

Traditional

And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:

Literal

And YHWH said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: Any son of a foreigner shall not eat of it.

Latin

Dixitque Dominus ad Moysen et Aaron: Hæc est religio Phase: omnis alienigena non comedet ex eo.

Original

Hebrew

English

And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.

Notes

Exodus 12:43–50

These extra instructions for celebrating Passover mainly refer to outsiders and foreigners (12:43; 12:48). The presence of non-Israelite groups in the community might have led to these rules (12:38). The main point was whether the person was willing to fully join Israel and obey the Lord by being circumcised.

Theme notes and profiles

Egypt Moses Pharaoh God’s Love for Israel The Cross and Passover The Passover

Events

Exodus from Egyptc. 1491 BC

Related verses

Exodus 12:48
If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.
Numbers 9:14
If a foreigner dwelling among you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, he is to do so according to the Passover statute and its ordinances. You are to apply the same statute to both the foreigner and the native of the land.’”
Exodus 12:11
This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.
Leviticus 22:10
No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.
Ephesians 2:12
…remember that at that time you were separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the covenants of the promise, without hope and without God in the world.

People

Aaron: Moses' brother, first high priest of Israel Moses: Prophet who led Israel out of Egypt Passover: An annual Jewish feast commemorating the Exodus

Glossary

Aaron Book of Exodus Chronology of the Bible (New Testament) Circumcision Deuteronomy, Book of Family Life and Relations Foreigner History of Israel Lintel (Top of a Doorframe) Meaning of Meals in the Bible Plague Wilderness Wanderings Worship

Topics

Ordinance: A Decree Passover: Institution of Strangers in Israel: Laws Respecting: Not to Eat the Passover While Uncircumcised Strangers: Mosaic Law Relating to Their Eating the Passover Meal The Feast of the Passover: No Uncircumcised Person to Keep

Exodus 12:43

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