lSee Ex. 12:43-49
Exodus 12:43-49
Institution of the Passover
43And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it, 44but every slave ▼▼Or servant; the Hebrew term ‘ebed designates a range of social and economic roles (see Preface)
that is bbought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him. 45 cNo foreigner or hired worker may eat of it. 46It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, and dyou shall not break any of its bones. 47 eAll the congregation of Israel shall keep it. 48 fIf a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he gshall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. 49There shall be hone law for the native and for the istranger who sojourns among you.” 2 Chronicles 30:11
11However, jsome men of Asher, of Manasseh, and of Zebulun humbled themselves and came to Jerusalem.2 Chronicles 30:18
18For a majority of the people, kmany of them from Ephraim, Manasseh, Issachar, and Zebulun, had not cleansed themselves, yet they ate the Passover otherwise lthan as prescribed. For Hezekiah had prayed for them, saying, “May the good Lord pardon everyone
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