When a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, and would like to keep the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it. He shall be as one who is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Exodus 12:48 in context
Exodus 12:45–51
45
A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.
46
It must be eaten in one house. You shall not carry any of the meat outside of the house. Do not break any of its bones.
47
All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
48
Selected verse
When a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, and would like to keep the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it. He shall be as one who is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
49
One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.”
50
All the children of Israel did so. As the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
51
That same day, the LORD brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
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