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What Does Exodus 12:47 Mean?

All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. keep: Heb. do it

Context

45

A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.

46

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.

47

All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. keep: Heb. do it

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 near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

49

One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

Commentary

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary
Ex 10:21-29. Plague of Darkness. **21-23. Stretch out thine hand toward heaven, that there may be darkness--**Whatever secondary means were employed in producing it, whether thick clammy fogs and vapors, according to some; a sandstorm, or the chamsin, according to others; it was such that it could be almost perceived by the organs of touch, and so protracted as to continue for three days, which the chamsin does [Hengstenberg]. The appalling character of this calamity consisted in this, that the sun was an object of Egyptian idolatry; that the pure and serene sky of that country was never marred by the appearance of a cloud. And here, too, the Lord made a marked difference between Goshen and the rest of Egypt.

Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset, David Brown. Public Domain.

Historical Context

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