Exodus 12:40–51

⁴⁰The people of Israel had lived in Egypt for four hundred thirty years; ⁴¹on the very day the four hundred thirty years ended, the Lord’s divisions of people left Egypt. ⁴²That night the Lord kept watch to bring them out of Egypt, and so on this same night the Israelites are to keep watch to honor the Lord from now on.

⁴³The Lord told Moses and Aaron, “Here are the rules for Passover: No foreigner is to eat the Passover. ⁴⁴If someone buys a slave and circumcises him, the slave may eat the Passover. ⁴⁵But neither a person who lives for a short time in your country nor a hired worker may eat it.

⁴⁶“The meal must be eaten inside a house; take none of the meat outside the house. Don’t break any of the bones. ⁴⁷The whole community of Israel must take part in this feast. ⁴⁸A foreigner who lives with you may share in the Lord’s Passover if all the males in his house become circumcised. Then, since he will be like a citizen of Israel, he may share in the meal. But a man who is not circumcised may not eat the Passover meal. ⁴⁹The same rules apply to an Israelite born in the country or to a foreigner living there.”

⁵⁰So all the Israelites did just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron. ⁵¹On that same day the Lord led the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions.