A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
a settler or hired servant doth not eat of it;
A temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover.
A settler and a hired servant shall not eat it.
Exodus — Deliverance, covenant, presence. A slave-people redeemed from Egypt, brought to Sinai, and given a tabernacle so that God might dwell among them.
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A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof. One of another nation, and one that was only hired by the day, week, or year; as they were not obliged to circumcision, so without it they had no right to eat of the passover, none but such as became proselytes of righteousness.
John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed
A foreigner - or sojourner: one who resides in a country, not having a permanent home, nor being attached to an Israelitish household.
Albert Barnes· Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)evangelical
We must be born again by the word ere we can be nourished by it. Nor shall any partake of the benefit of Christ's sacrifice, or feast upon it, who are not first circumcised in heart, Col. ii. Any stranger that was circumcised might be welcome to eat of the passover, even servants,
Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Ephesians 2:12remember 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.
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Formerly, when you did not know God, you were slaves to those who by nature are not gods.
Once you were alienated from God and were hostile in your minds, engaging in evil deeds.
Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ! By His great mercy He has given us new birth into a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,
Behold, the days are coming, declares the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah.
They are darkened in their understanding and alienated from the life of God because of the ignorance that is in them due to the hardness of their hearts.
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Leviticus 22:10No one outside a priest’s family may eat the sacred offering, nor may the guest of a priest or his hired hand eat it.
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So the priest gave him the consecrated bread, since there was no bread there but the Bread of the Presence, which had been removed from before the LORD and replaced with hot bread on…
He entered the house of God, and he and his companions ate the consecrated bread, which was not lawful for them to eat, but only for the priests.
They must eat those things by which atonement was made for their ordination and consecration. But no outsider may eat them, because these things are sacred.
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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.
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.
