Exodus 12:45

45 No temporary foreign resident or day laborer may 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 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron: This is the regulation for the Passover. No foreigner may eat it.
44 However, any slave who has been bought may eat it after he's been circumcised.
45 No temporary foreign resident or day laborer may eat it.
46 It should be eaten in one house. You shouldn't take any of the meat outside the house, and you shouldn't break the bones.
47 The whole Israelite community should observe it.
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