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Exodus 12:47
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45 aA sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat it.  
46 In one house it shall be eaten; you shall not carry any of the flesh outside the house, anor shall you break one of its bones.  
47 aAll the congregation of Israel shall keep it.  
48 And awhen a stranger dwells with you and wants to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as a native of the land. For no uncircumcised person shall eat it.  
49 aOne law shall be for the native-born and for the stranger who dwells among you.”  
50 Thus all the children of Israel did; as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
51 aAnd it came to pass, on that very same day, that the Lord brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt baccording to their armies. 
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No entry exists in Forerunner Commentary for Exodus 12:47.

Exodus 12:43-51

Verse 51, where it says "and it came to pass the selfsame day that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies," is positioned at the end of this paragraph that begins in verse 43. That does not mean that they were circumcised "the selfsame day," but rather that verse is a reference back to verse 41: "And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years."

At this point (verse 51) in the story of the events that took place in Egypt, the males had already taken the Passover, and therefore the men were already circumcised. They couldn't have taken the Passover, which occurred at the beginning of chapter 12, unless they had been circumcised. So this section then, from verse 43 through 51, is a reminder of a command given earlier. They didn't get circumcised after Passover and then immediately get up and leave Egypt within the same few hours period.

Excerpted from The Wavesheaf and the Selfsame Day by John W. Ritenbaugh



Other Forerunner Commentary entries containing Exodus 12:47:

Leviticus 23:5
Deuteronomy 12:1-14


 
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