Holy Scripture

Exodus 12:43

A church father on this verse
“But the deceitful, and he that is not pure of heart and possesses nothing that is pure (as Proverbs says, "To a deceitful man there is nothing good") shall assuredly, being a stranger and of a different race from the saints, be accounted unworthy to eat the Passover, for "a foreigner shall not eat of it." Thus Judas,…”
Athanasius of Alexandria, 4th c. — FESTAL LETTERS 6.11

Source: Septuagint

Original

43And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, This is the law of the Passover: no stranger shall eat of it.

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In context

41And it came to pass after the four hundred and thirty years, all the forces of the Lord came forth out of the land of Egypt by night.

42It is a watch kept to the Lord, so that he should bring them out of the land of Egypt; that very night is a watch kept to the Lord, so that it should be to all the children of Israel to their generations.

— Exodus 12:43 —

44And every slave or servant bought with money—him thou shalt circumcise, and then shall he eat of it.

45A sojourner or hireling shall not eat of it.

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