The Meaning of Exodus 12:45 Explained

Exodus 12:45

KJV: A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.

YLT: a settler or hired servant doth not eat of it;

Darby: A settler and a hired servant shall not eat it.

ASV: A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

A foreigner  and an hired servant  shall not eat  thereof. 

What does Exodus 12:45 Mean?

Context Summary

Exodus 12:37-51 - Israel Led Out Of Egypt
The 600,000 were males above 20 years of age, Numbers 1:3-43. This would make the entire body not less than 2,000,000 of people of all ages. Succoth was the first rallying point on which the various bands converged. It stood in open country, over which their flocks and herds spread themselves. It was, indeed, a night to be observed, when the Exodus took place, because, as Bunsen says, it was the beginning of history; and we may almost say further that it was the hour when Israel was born as a nation. God called His son out of Egypt. At that moment also the period of which Abraham had been apprised ran out. See Genesis 15:13; Galatians 3:17; and Exodus 12:40 here.
Notice the stress laid on circumcision, which was the type of putting away the sins of the flesh. See Colossians 2:11. We must be separated from sin, before we can claim our portion in the Paschal Lamb, or join the Exodus. [source]

Chapter Summary: Exodus 12

1  The beginning of the year is changed
3  The Passover is instituted
11  The import of the rite of the Passover
15  Unleavened bread
29  The firstborn are slain
31  The Israelites are driven out of the land
37  They come to Succoth
41  The time of their sojourning
43  The ordinance of the Passover

What do the individual words in Exodus 12:45 mean?

A sojourner and a hired servant not shall eat it
תּוֹשָׁ֥ב וְשָׂכִ֖יר לֹא־ יֹ֥אכַל־ בּֽוֹ

תּוֹשָׁ֥ב  A  sojourner 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: תֹּושָׁב  
Sense: sojourner, stranger.
וְשָׂכִ֖יר  and  a  hired  servant 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Adjective, masculine singular
Root: שָׂכִיר  
Sense: hired.
יֹ֥אכַל־  shall  eat 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine singular
Root: אָכַל  
Sense: to eat, devour, burn up, feed.

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