Exodus 12:47
45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
46 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.
48 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.
49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth 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
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.
Read in contextNumbers 9:13
But the man that is clean, and is not in a journey, and forbeareth to keep the passover, even the same soul shall be cut off from among his people: because he brought not the offering of the LORD in his appointed season, that man shall bear his sin.
Read in contextExodus 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:
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