Exodus 12:45

45 No casual visitor or hired hand can eat it.

Exodus 12:45 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 12:45

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.

Exodus 12:45 In-Context

43 God said to Moses and Aaron, "These are the rules for the Passover: No foreigners are to eat it.
44 Any slave, if he's paid for and circumcised, can eat it.
45 No casual visitor or hired hand can eat it.
46 Eat it in one house - don't take the meat outside the house. Don't break any of the bones.
47 The whole community of Israel is to be included in the meal.
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