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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.
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Verse 48. Dwell, or become a proselyte, by circumcision, if a male; or by baptism, if a female; receiving a sort of new-birth. John 3:10. The Jews would not suffer any to dwell among them, who would not observe the seven precepts given to Noe. Genesis 9. But the proselytes of justice embraced the Jewish religion. Calmet.
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