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Today's Bible Reading :: Exodus 10 - 12 (ESV)

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Exodus 10

The Eighth Plague: Locusts

(Joe 1:2–4 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:1 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go in to Pharaoh, for I have hardened his heart and the heart of his servants, that I may show these signs of mine among them,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:2 - and that you may tell in the hearing of your son and of your grandson how I have dealt harshly with the Egyptians and what signs I have done among them, that you may know that I am the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:3 - So Moses and Aaron went in to Pharaoh and said to him, “Thus says the LORD, the God of the Hebrews, ‘How long will you refuse to humble yourself before me? Let my people go, that they may serve me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:4 - For if you refuse to let my people go, behold, tomorrow I will bring locusts into your country,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:5

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:5 - and they shall cover the face of the land, so that no one can see the land. And they shall eat what is left to you after the hail, and they shall eat every tree of yours that grows in the field,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:6 - and they shall fill your houses and the houses of all your servants and of all the Egyptians, as neither your fathers nor your grandfathers have seen, from the day they came on earth to this day.’” Then he turned and went out from Pharaoh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:7 - Then Pharaoh’s servants said to him, “How long shall this man be a snare to us? Let the men go, that they may serve the LORD their God. Do you not yet understand that Egypt is ruined?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:8 - So Moses and Aaron were brought back to Pharaoh. And he said to them, “Go, serve the LORD your God. But which ones are to go?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:9 - Moses said, “We will go with our young and our old. We will go with our sons and daughters and with our flocks and herds, for we must hold a feast to the LORD.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:10 - But he said to them, “The LORD be with you, if ever I let you and your little ones go! Look, you have some evil purpose in mind.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:11 - No! Go, the men among you, and serve the LORD, for that is what you are asking.” And they were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:12 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, so that they may come upon the land of Egypt and eat every plant in the land, all that the hail has left.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:13 - So Moses stretched out his staff over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night. When it was morning, the east wind had brought the locusts.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:14 - The locusts came up over all the land of Egypt and settled on the whole country of Egypt, such a dense swarm of locusts as had never been before, nor ever will be again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:15 - They covered the face of the whole land, so that the land was darkened, and they ate all the plants in the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left. Not a green thing remained, neither tree nor plant of the field, through all the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:16 - Then Pharaoh hastily called Moses and Aaron and said, “I have sinned against the LORD your God, and against you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:17 - Now therefore, forgive my sin, please, only this once, and plead with the LORD your God only to remove this death from me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:18 - So he went out from Pharaoh and pleaded with the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:19 - And the LORD turned the wind into a very strong west wind, which lifted the locusts and drove them into the Red Sea. Not a single locust was left in all the country of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:20 - But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go.

The Ninth Plague: Darkness

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:21 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Stretch out your hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness over the land of Egypt, a darkness to be felt.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:22 - So Moses stretched out his hand toward heaven, and there was pitch darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:23 - They did not see one another, nor did anyone rise from his place for three days, but all the people of Israel had light where they lived.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:24 - Then Pharaoh called Moses and said, “Go, serve the LORD; your little ones also may go with you; only let your flocks and your herds remain behind.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:25 - But Moses said, “You must also let us have sacrifices and burnt offerings, that we may sacrifice to the LORD our God.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:26 - Our livestock also must go with us; not a hoof shall be left behind, for we must take of them to serve the LORD our God, and we do not know with what we must serve the LORD until we arrive there.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:27 - But the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he would not let them go.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 10:28

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:28 - Then Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me; take care never to see my face again, for on the day you see my face you shall die.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:29 - Moses said, “As you say! I will not see your face again.”
ESV Footnotes
Hebrew before your face

Exodus 11

A Final Plague Threatened

(Exo 3:21, 22; 12:35, 36 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:1 - The LORD said to Moses, “Yet one plague more I will bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt. Afterward he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will drive you away completely.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 11:2

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:2 - Speak now in the hearing of the people, that they ask, every man of his neighbor and every woman of her neighbor, for silver and gold jewelry.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 11:3

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:3 - And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover, the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh’s servants and in the sight of the people.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 11:4

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:4 - So Moses said, “Thus says the LORD: ‘About midnight I will go out in the midst of Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:5 - and every firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the slave girl who is behind the handmill, and all the firstborn of the cattle.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 11:6

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:6 - There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been, nor ever will be again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 11:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:7 - But not a dog shall growl against any of the people of Israel, either man or beast, that you may know that the LORD makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.’

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 11:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:8 - And all these your servants shall come down to me and bow down to me, saying, ‘Get out, you and all the people who follow you.’ And after that I will go out.” And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:9 - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh will not listen to you, that my wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 11:10 - Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and the LORD hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he did not let the people of Israel go out of his land.

Exodus 12

The Passover

(Num 9:1–14; Deu 16:1–8; Eze 45:21–25 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:1 - The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:2 - “This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:3 - Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:4 - And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:5 - Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:6 - and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:7 - “Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:8 - They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:9

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:9 - Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:10 - And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:11 - In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD’s Passover.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:12 - For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:13

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:13 - The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:14 - “This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:15 - Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:16

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:16 - On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:17 - And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:18 - In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:19

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:19 - For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:20

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:20 - You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:21

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:21 - Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:22

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:22 - Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:23

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:23 - For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:24

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:24 - You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:25

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:25 - And when you come to the land that the LORD will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:26

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:26 - And when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:27

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:27 - you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.’” And the people bowed their heads and worshiped.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:28 - Then the people of Israel went and did so; as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn

(Exo 11:1–10 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:29 - At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:30 - And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:31

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:31 - Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Up, go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:32 - Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!”

The Exodus

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:33 - The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste. For they said, “We shall all be dead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:34

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:34 - So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:35 - The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:36 - And the LORD had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:37 - And the people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:38 - A mixed multitude also went up with them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:39

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:39 - And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:40 - The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:41 - At the end of 430 years, on that very day, all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:42

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:42 - It was a night of watching by the LORD, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a night of watching kept to the LORD by all the people of Israel throughout their generations.

Institution of the Passover

(Gen 17:9–14; Exo 12:1–13 )

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:43 - And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it,

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:44

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:44 - but every slave[fn] that is bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:45 - No foreigner or hired worker may eat of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:46 - It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, and you shall not break any of its bones.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:47 - All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:48 - If a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he shall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:49 - There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:50 - All the people of Israel did just as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 12:51

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:51 - And on that very day the LORD brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.
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Hebrew between the two evenings
Or servant; the Hebrew term ‘ebed designates a range of social and economic roles (see Preface)
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