Exodus 12:43

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“And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.”

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BSBPD

“And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“And Jehovah said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: there shall no foreigner eat thereof;”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“And Jehovah saith unto Moses and Aaron, `This <FI>is<Fi> a statute of the passover; Any son of a stranger doth not eat of it;”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Exodus 12:43 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Exodus 12:11This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. Leviticus 22:13But if a priest’s daughter with no children becomes widowed or divorced and returns to her father’s house, she may share her father’s food as in her youth. But no outsider may share it.
  5. Numbers 9:14If 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.’”
  6. 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.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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