King James Version
Exodus 12:47 in the King James Version says “All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. keep: Heb. do it” — study this verse from Exodus chapter 12 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. keep: Heb. do it”
Exodus 12:47 · KJV
A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. keep: Heb. do it
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 near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
KJV Study — Public Domain
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
“All the congregation”
H5712a stated assemblage (specifically, a concourse, or generally, a family or crowd)
“of Israel”
H3478he will rule as god; jisral, a symbolical name of jacob; also (typically) of his posterity
properly, self (but generally used to point out more definitely the object of a verb or preposition, even or namely)
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