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Negative commandment · Lo Ta’aseh #126 of 613

Not to feed the meat of the Paschal sacrifice to a resident alien

שלא להאכיל בשר הפסח לגר תושב

Parashat Bo בא · Sefer HaChinuch #14

The verse · Shemot 12:45

תּוֹשָׁב וְשָׂכִיר לֹא־יֹאכַל בּוֹ

“A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.”

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The Rambam’s words

Not to feed the meat of the Paschal sacrifice to a resident alien, as [Exodus 12:45] states: "No temporary resident or hired worker may eat from it."

שלא להאכיל בשר הפסח לגר תושב, שנאמר "תושב ושכיר, לא יאכל בו" (שמות יב,מה).

Why · Sefer HaChinuch #14

That we not feed of the Pesach sacrifice to a stranger or a resident

“From the roots of this commandment is that which we have written in others [about Pesach above] — to remember the exodus from Egypt.”

Who & when

“And [it] is practiced at the time of the [Temple] by males and females.”

Where in the Mishneh Torah

Hilchot Paschal Offering הלכות קרבן פסח

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