Instructions for the Passover
The Passover is restricted to the covenant community: foreigners and hired residents may not eat, while circumcised members of a household may share in it. The meal must remain whole within one house, and the same law governs both native Israelite and circumcised foreigner who dwells among them.
A43nd the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it. 44But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him. 45A temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover. 46It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of the bones. 47The whole congregation of Israel must celebrate it. 48If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it. 49The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”
The Israelites do just as the LORD commands Moses and Aaron. On that very day, the LORD brings them out of Egypt by their divisions.
50Then all the Israelites did this — they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron. 51And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.