Exodus 12:47
45 A temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover.
46 It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of the bones.
The whole congregation of Israel must celebrate it.
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.
49 The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The whole congregation of Israel must celebrate it.
- KJV
- All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
- WEB
- All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
- ASV
- All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
- DARBY
- All the assembly of Israel shall hold it.
- BLB
- All the congregation of Israel shall do it.
- ÅB
- Slik skal hele Israels menighet gjøre.
- OTB
- Hele Israels menighet skal feire dette.
- B1930
- Således skal hele Israels menighet gjøre.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Exodus 12:6
You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.
Read in contextNumbers 9:13
But if a man who is ceremonially clean and is not on a journey still fails to observe the Passover, he must be cut off from his people, because he did not present the LORD’s offering at its appointed time. That man will bear the consequences of his sin.
Read in contextExodus 12:3
Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must select a lamb for his family, one per household.
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