Exodus 12:43

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

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Word by word — the Hebrew

Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
LORD	יְהוָה֙ Yah.weh	H3068	Jehovah · proper noun, a title
said	וַיֹּ֤אמֶר vai.Yo.mer	H559	to say (used with great latitude) · conjunction + verb, qal sequential imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular
Moses	מֹשֶׁ֣ה mo.Sheh	H4872	Mosheh · proper noun, a man's name
Aaron	וְאַהֲרֹ֔ן ve.'a.ha.Ron	H175	Aharon · conjunction + proper noun, a man's name
ordinance	חֻקַּ֣ת chu.Kat	H2708	an enactment · noun, common feminine singular construct
passover	הַפָּ֑סַח ha.Pa.sach	H6453	a pretermission · definite article + noun, masculine singular absolute
stranger	בֶּן ben-	H1121	a son (as a builder of the family name) · noun, common masculine singular construct
eat	יֹ֥אכַל Yo.khal	H398	to eat (literally or figuratively) · verb, qal imperfect, 3rd person masculine singular

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).

Cross-references

Exodus 12:48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come…
Numbers 9:14 And if a stranger shall sojourn among you, and will keep the passover unto the LORD; according to the ordinance of the passover, and accordi…
Exodus 12:11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is…
Leviticus 22:10 There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest, or an hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.
Ephesians 2:12 That at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 12:43–end

Some further precepts are here given concerning the passover, as it should be observed in times to come. I. All the congregation of Israel must keep it, Exo 12:47. All that share in God's mercies should join in thankful praises for them. Though it was observed in families apart, yet it is looked upon as the act of the whole congregation; for the smaller communities constituted the greater. The New Testament passover, the Lord's supper, ought not to be neglected by any who are capable of celebrating it. He is unworthy the name of an Israelite that can contentedly neglect the commemoration of so great a deliverance. 1. No stranger that was uncircumcised might be admitted to eat of it, Exo 12:4…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 12:41

even the selfsame day--implying an exact and literal fulfilment of the predicted period.

Adam Clarke on Exodus 12:43

This is the ordinance of the passover - From the last verse of this chapter it appears pretty evident that this, to the 50th verse inclusive, constituted a part of the directions given to Moses relative to the proper observance of the first passover, and should be read conjointly with the preceding account beginning at Exo 12:21. It may be supposed that these latter parts contain such particular directions as God gave to Moses after he had given those general ones mentioned in the preceding verses, but they seem all to belong to this first passover. There shall no stranger eat thereof - בן נכר ben nechar, the son of a stranger or foreigner, i.e., one who was not of the genuine Hebrew stock,…

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John Gill on Exodus 12:43

And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron,.... At the same time he acquainted them with the above things: this is the ordinance of the passover; as before delivered, and these the laws and rules, according to which it is to be observed, as now related, both with respect to the lamb, and to the unleavened bread; and the following is an account of the persons that were to partake of it: there shall no stranger eat thereof, one that is of another country, an entire Heathen, and unacquainted with, and does not profess the Jewish religion, which was the religion of God.

The Church Fathers

But the deceitful, and he that is not pure of heart and possesses nothing that is pure (as Proverbs says, "To a deceitful man there is nothing good") shall assuredly, being a stranger and of a different race from the saints, be accounted unworthy to eat the Passover, for "a foreigner shall not eat of it." Thus Judas, when he thought he kept the Passover, because he plotted deceit against the Savior, was estranged from the city which is above and from the apostolic company. For the law commanded the Passover to be eaten with due observance. But he, while eating it, was sifted of the devil, who had entered his soul.
— Athanasius of Alexandria, FESTAL LETTERS 6.11

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Dictionary and topics

Blood — (1.) As food, prohibited in Gen. 9:4, where the use of animal food is first allowed. Comp. Deut. 12:23; Lev. 3:17; 7:26; 17:10-14. The injunction to abstain from blood is renewed in the decree of the…
Passover — The name given to the chief of the three great historical annual festivals of the Jews. It was kept in remembrance of the Lord’s passing over the houses of the Israelites (Ex. 12:13) when the first…
Pentecost — I.e., “fiftieth”, found only in the New Testament (Acts 2:1; 20:16; 1 Cor. 16:8). The festival so named is first spoken of in Ex. 23:16 as “the feast of harvest,” and again in Ex. 34:22 as “the day…
Feast Of The Passover, The · No uncircumcised person to keep — No uncircumcised person to keep
Ordinance · A — A
Passover · Institution of — Institution of
Strangers · .Their eating the Pas — .Their eating the Pas
Strangers In Israel · Laws respecting: Not to eat the passover while uncircumcised — Laws respecting: Not to eat the passover while uncircumcised

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Exodus 12:43

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 12:43–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 12:41

Adam Clarke on Exodus 12:43

John Gill on Exodus 12:43

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Exodus 12:43

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Exodus 12:43–end

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Exodus 12:41

Adam Clarke on Exodus 12:43

John Gill on Exodus 12:43

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Exodus 12:29–end

Keil & Delitzsch on Exodus 12:43-48

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Exodus 12:43-50

Rashi on Exodus 12:43