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Exodus 12:43-46 (Listen)

Institution of the Passover

43 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it, 44 but every slave1 that is fbought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him. 45 gNo foreigner or hired worker may eat of it. 46 It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, and hyou shall not break any of its bones.

Footnotes

[1] 12:44 Or servant; the Hebrew term ‘ebed designates a range of social and economic roles (see Preface)