Restrictions of Eating the Passover

Restrictions of Eating the Passover

Sh’mot 12:43-49
⁴³HASHEM said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the decree of the Pesach-offering: no alienated person may eat from it. ⁴⁴Every slave of a man, who was bought for money, you shall circumcise him; the he may eat of it. ⁴⁵A sojourner and a hired laborer may not eat it. ⁴⁶In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not remove any of the meat from the house to the outside, and you shall not break a bone in it. ⁴⁷The entire assembly of Israel shall perform it. ⁴⁸When a proselyte sojourns among you he shall make the Pesach-offering for HASHEM, each of his males shall be circumcised, and then he may draw near to perform it and he shall be like the native of the land; no uncircumcised male may eat of it. ⁴⁹One law shall there be for the native and the proselyte who lives among you.”

However, none that are uncircumcised are to eat of it. No one who has not separated himself unto HASHEM was to be a part of this. Only those who had the sign of the covenant could be a part of this celebration. No foreigner outside the camp of Israel was to partake of it. Only those who have the sign of the covenant and wish to be part of Eloheim's plan.

No foreigner was to partake of it. The alien and the sojourner were invited, but let him be circumcised (v48). It was Eloheim's plan from the very beginning that the Passover was to include the alien and the sojourner. It was Eloheim's plan that the Gentiles participate in the Passover. The only requirement was “Let them be circumcised to HASHEM”. Let them turn to HASHEM and repent from other things. They were to be treated as guests and equal to the house of Israel (v 49) so that they might partake of the lamb as well and come in and be under the covering of the lamb. Eloheim was setting up the standard of redemption for the whole world. This was to be the method of redeeming all men unto Eloheim so that all the families of the earth might be blessed under the seed of Abraham. The key was that you had to have a visible sign to serve and honor HASHEM.

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