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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.

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "These are the regulations for the Passover meal: "No foreigner may eat it.

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

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

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

but a temporary resident or a hired worker may not eat it.

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

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

The whole community of Israel must celebrate it.

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.

"A foreigner residing 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 it.

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

The same law applies both to the native-born and to the foreigner residing among you."

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

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.

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