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Exodus 12:49

The stranger and outcastThe law

47 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.

The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”

50 Then all the Israelites did this—they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.

51 And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.

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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.

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BSB
The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”
KJV
One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
WEB
One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.”
ASV
One law shall be to him that is home-born, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
DARBY
One law shall be for him that is home-born and for the sojourner that sojourneth among you.
BLB
One law shall be for the native and for the sojourner who is sojourning in your⁺ midst.”
ÅB
Det skal være en og samme lov for den innfødte og for den fremmede som oppholder seg hos dere.
OTB
Den samme loven skal gjelde for den innfødte som for den fremmede som bor blant dere.»
B1930
Det skal være en og samme lov for den innfødte og for den fremmede som opholder sig hos eder.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Numbers 15:15–16

    The assembly is to have the same statute both for you and for the foreign resident; it is a permanent statute for the generations to come. You and the foreigner shall be the same before the LORD.

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  • Numbers 15:29

    You shall have the same law for the one who acts in error, whether he is a native-born Israelite or a foreigner residing among you.

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  • 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.’”

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  • Leviticus 24:22

    You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’”

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  • Galatians 3:28

    There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus.

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