Exo 12:48 | NET2full | STEP | “ When a resident foreigner lives with you and wants to observe the Passover to the Lord , all his males must be circumcised , and then he may approach and observe it, and he will be like one who is born in the land —but no uncircumcised person may eat of it.

‏ Exodus 12:48

48 “When a resident foreigner ^{▼▼tn The noun “foreigner” (גֵּר; ger) is based on the same verbal root as “lives” (גּוּר; gur), which means “to sojourn, to dwell as an alien.” This reference is to a foreigner who settles in the land. The choice to participate in the covenant sign of circumcision and in the Passover are indicators that these foreigners are converts to worshiping the Lord. This LXX renders גֵּר as “proselyte” in Mosaic Law. (See also Deut 29:10-13). As what is essentially a naturalized citizen, the גֵּר comes under the full protection of the Law. If the “resident foreigner” is circumcised, he may participate in the Passover (cf. S. R. Driver, Exodus, 104).} lives with you and wants to observe the Passover to the Lord, all his males must be circumcised, ^{▼▼tn The infinitive absolute functions as the finite verb here, and “every male” could be either the object or the subject (see GKC 347 §113.gg and 387 §121.a).} and then he may approach and observe it, and he will be like one who is born in the land ^{▼▼tn אֶזְרָח (ʾezrakh) refers to the native-born individual, the native Israelite as opposed to the “stranger, alien” (S. R. Driver, Exodus, 104); see also W. F. Albright, Archaeology and the Religion of Israel, 127, 210.} —but no uncircumcised person may eat of it.