This Is the Ordinance of the Passover and No Stranger Shall Eat of It

"This is the ordinance of the Passover" (Exodus 12:43), the Passover of Egypt. "No uncircumcised person shall eat of it, and no son of a stranger shall eat of it." Why does the text say "ordinance"? To apply what is said regarding the Passover of Egypt to the Passover of the generations, and what is said regarding the Passover of the generations to the Passover of Egypt, except for matters in which Scripture limited it. One might think this includes even the bundle of hyssop, the lintel, and the two doorposts; the text says "this" [to exclude them]. "No son of a stranger shall eat of it." What do I need this for? Has it not already been said, "and no uncircumcised person shall eat of it" (Exodus 12:48)? Why then does the text say "no son of a stranger shall eat of it"? This refers to an apostate Israelite who worshipped idols. I have here only a man; from where do I include a woman? The text says "no son of a stranger shall eat of it." Another interpretation: "no son of a stranger shall eat of it." From here you learn that if a person withdrew his hand from it and then registered again for it, he transgresses a negative commandment. One might think he disqualifies the company that comes with him; the text says "this": he does not disqualify the company that comes with him. "He shall not eat of it." Of it he does not eat, but he does eat of the unleavened bread and the bitter herbs.