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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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ASV

And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto Jehovah; according to the statute of the passover, and according to the ordinance thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one statute, both for the sojourner, and for him that is born in the land.

KJV

And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the Lord; according to the ordinance of the passover, and according to the manner thereof, so shall he do: ye shall have one ordinance, both for the stranger, and for him that was born in the land.

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Hebraic traditional view

The make-up Passover

This passage creates something rare in the Law: a second chance at a feast. Anyone unclean or far away at Passover could keep it exactly one month later, on the 14th of the second month. Jewish tradition calls it Pesach Sheni, “Second Passover,” and it is still marked lightly today (some eat a piece of matzah on the day). Israel's kings used the provision at national scale: Hezekiah's great Passover was held in the second month on exactly this ground (2 Chronicles 30).

Sources: Mishnah Pesachim 9:1 (who keeps the Second Passover) · 2 Chronicles 30 (the provision used nationally)

Original language & word study

19 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְכִֽי־ve.khi-and ifH3588 →
יָג֨וּרya.Gurhe will sojournH1481 →
אִתְּכֶ֜ם'i.te.Khemwith youH854 →
גֵּ֗רGera sojournerH1616 →
וְעָ֤שָֽׂהve.'A.sahand he will observeH6213 →
פֶ֙סַח֙fe.sacha passoverH6453 →
לַֽיהוָ֔הla.Yah.wehto YahwehH3068 →
כְּחֻקַּ֥תke.chu.Kataccording to [the] statute ofH2708 →
הַפֶּ֛סַחha.Pe.sachthe passoverH6453 →
וּכְמִשְׁפָּט֖וֹu.khe.mish.pa.Toand according to judgment itsH4941 →
כֵּ֣ןkensoH3651 →
יַעֲשֶׂ֑הya.'a.Sehhe will doH6213 →
חֻקָּ֤הchu.Kaha statuteH2708 →
אַחַת֙'a.ChatoneH259 →
יִהְיֶ֣הyih.Yehit will belongH1961 →
לָכֶ֔םla.Khemto you
וְלַגֵּ֖רve.la.Gerand to the sojournerH1616 →
וּלְאֶזְרַ֥חu.le.'ez.Rachand to [the] native-born ofH249 →
הָאָֽרֶץ׃ פha.'A.retzthe landH776 →

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Exodus 12:48If 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.Exodus 12:48–49If 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.Numbers 15:15The 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.Exodus 12:43And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.Exodus 12:49The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”Leviticus 24:22You are to have the same standard of law for the foreign resident and the native; for I am the LORD your God.’”Isaiah 56:3–7Let no foreigner who has joined himself to the LORD say, “The LORD will utterly exclude me from His people.” And let the eunuch not say, “I am but a dry tree.”Ephesians 2:19–22Therefore you are no longer strangers and foreigners, but fellow citizens with the saints and members of God’s household,Numbers 15:29You 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.Deuteronomy 31:12Assemble the people—men, women, children, and the foreigners within your gates—so that they may listen and learn to fear the LORD your God and to follow carefully all the words of this law.Leviticus 25:15You are to buy from your neighbor according to the number of years since the last Jubilee; he is to sell to you according to the number of harvest years remaining.Deuteronomy 29:11your children and wives, and the foreigners in your camps who cut your wood and draw your water—Leviticus 19:10You must not strip your vineyard bare or gather its fallen grapes. Leave them for the poor and the foreigner. I am the LORD your God.Leviticus 22:25Neither you nor a foreigner shall present food to your God from any such animal. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and flawed.’”Numbers 29:6These are in addition to the monthly and daily burnt offerings with their prescribed grain offerings and drink offerings. They are a pleasing aroma, an offering made by fire to the LORD.

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