OLD TESTAMENT

Exodus 12:19

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There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.

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Verse 19. Stranger. Hebrew ger, signifies also a proselyte. Menochius. See verse 43.—Only those men who had been circumcised were allowed to eat the Phase. Women, belonging to the Hebrews, might partake of it. The unclean were excluded. Calmet.

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