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Seven days shall there be no yeast found in your houses, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or one who is born in the land.
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An Inclusive Covenant
Commentators explain that the command to avoid leaven applied equally to native Israelites ("born in the land") and foreigners ("strangers") who had fully joined the community through faith. This shows that from its inception, God's covenant community was open to non-ethnic Israelites who chose to join themselves to Him.
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Exodus
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Born in the land - A stranger or foreigner might be born in the land, but the word here used means “a native of the land,” belonging to the …
19th Century
Anglican
A stranger — that is, a foreigner by birth, who has been adopted into the nation, received circumcision, and become a full prosely…
Baptist
And you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread, for on this very same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore y…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses , &c.]. Wherefore, on the fourteenth day the most diligent searc…
The Lord makes all things new to those whom he delivers from the bondage of Satan, and takes to himself to be his people. The time when he does thi…
