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The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "These are the regulations for the Passover: "No foreigner is to eat of it.

Any slave you have bought may eat of it after you have circumcised him,

but a temporary resident and a hired worker may not eat of it.

"It must be eaten inside one house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones.

The whole community of Israel must celebrate it.

"An alien living among you who wants to celebrate the LORD's Passover must have all the males in his household circumcised; then he may take part like one born in the land. No uncircumcised male may eat of it.

The same law applies to the native-born and to the alien living among you."

All the Israelites did just what the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.

And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions.