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.
BSB
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ASV
And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to Jehovah, 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: but no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
KJV
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.
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The night Israel still keeps
This chapter founds Passover, in Hebrew Pesach, the spring feast that remembers the night God struck Egypt's firstborn and passed over the blood-marked houses. Jewish families keep it to this day with a ceremonial meal called the seder (Hebrew for “order”): unleavened flatbread (matzah), bitter herbs, cups of wine, and the retelling of this chapter's story, with the children asking the questions.
Honesty about the timeline helps the reader: in the Bible's own period the center of the feast was the lamb, slain and eaten as this chapter commands. The seder as now practiced took its shape after the Temple fell in AD 70 and the lamb could no longer be offered; its oldest written outline is in the Mishnah, the first code of Jewish oral law (about AD 200), which already includes the four cups and the rule that “in every generation a person must see himself as if he personally came out of Egypt.”
Sources: Mishnah Pesachim 10 (the seder's oldest outline) · Mishnah Pesachim 10:5 (“in every generation”) · The Feasts of the LORD (this site's study)
Original language & word study
22 tagged words| Original | Transliteration | Meaning | Word study |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְכִֽי־ | ve.khi- | and if | H3588 → |
| יָג֨וּר | ya.Gur | he will sojourn | H1481 → |
| אִתְּךָ֜ | 'i.te.Kha | with you | H854 → |
| גֵּ֗ר | Ger | a sojourner | H1616 → |
| וְעָ֣שָׂה | ve.'A.sah | and he will observe | H6213 → |
| פֶסַח֮ | fe.Sach | a passover | H6453 → |
| לַיהוָה֒ | la.Yah.weh | to Yahweh | H3068 → |
| הִמּ֧וֹל | hi.Mol | he will be circumcised | H4135 → |
| ל֣וֹ | lo | of him | |
| כָל־ | khol- | every | H3605 → |
| זָכָ֗ר | za.Khar | male | H2145 → |
| וְאָז֙ | ve.'Az | and then | H227 → |
| יִקְרַ֣ב | yik.Rav | he will draw near | H7126 → |
| לַעֲשֹׂת֔וֹ | la.'a.so.To | to observe it | H6213 → |
| וְהָיָ֖ה | ve.ha.Yah | and he will be | H1961 → |
| כְּאֶזְרַ֣ח | ke.'ez.Rach | like [the] native-born of | H249 → |
| הָאָ֑רֶץ | ha.'A.retz | the land | H776 → |
| וְכָל־ | ve.khol | and any | H3605 → |
| עָרֵ֖ל | 'a.Rel | uncircumcised [man] | H6189 → |
| לֹֽא־ | lo'- | not | H3808 → |
| יֹ֥אכַל | Yo.khal | he will eat | H398 → |
| בּֽוֹ׃ | bo | in <the> it |
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