Exodus 12:45

What does Exodus 12:45 mean?

A plain-English look at Exodus 12:45 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

A man from a strange country living among you, and a servant working for payment, may not take part in it.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

a settler or hired servant doth not eat of it;

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

The stranger and the hireling shall not eat thereof.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

A settler and a hired servant shall not eat it.

Context

v.44but every man’s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.

v.45This passage

v.46In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth aught of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Leviticus 22:10

    There shall no stranger eat of the holy thing: a sojourner of the priest’s, or a hired servant, shall not eat of the holy thing.

  • Ephesians 2:12

    that ye were at that time separate from Christ, alienated from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of the promise, having no hope and without God in the world.

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