And the children of Israel, which were come again out
of
captivity
The tribes of Judah and Benjamin, with some of the ten tribes
mixed with them:
and all such as had separated themselves unto them, from
the filthiness
of the Heathen of the land, to seek the Lord God of Israel,
did eat;
such of the Gentiles in the dominions of Babylon, and came with
the Jews from thence, who were enlightened into the knowledge and
worship of the true God, and not only renounced their idolatry,
here called filthiness, but were circumcised, and embraced the
religion of the Jews, and so were proselytes of righteousness, as
they call them; or otherwise they would not have been allowed to
eat of the passover, as they did, ( Exodus 12:48
) .
