Exodus 12:45

45 The stranger and the hireling shall not eat thereof.

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 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: This is the service of the Phase; no foreigner shall eat of it.

44 But every bought servant shall be circumcised, and so shall eat.

45 The stranger and the hireling shall not eat thereof.

46 In one house shall it be eaten, neither shall you carry forth of the flesh thereof out of the house, neither shall you break a bone thereof.

47 All the assembly of the children of Israel shall keep it.