“If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.”
Exodus 12:48
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Connection with Abraham's circumcision
For Israel, circumcision and the Passover belonged together: no uncircumcised man could eat the Passover. Their children kept the same order at Gilgal, where Joshua circumcised the generation born in the wilderness before their first Passover in Canaan (Joshua 5:2-10). When Genesis says Abraham obeyed that very day, Israel heard the phrase for the night their own story began.
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