As we continue our look at the Mosaic Code’s Passover instructions – we see another nuance in the eligibility to participate. Ordinance 10 said strangers could not eat, but then Ordinance 11 gave an exception for one class that could eat (circumcised servants), and we see reiterated the two classes that may not – foreigners (merchants?) and hired servants (temporary workers).
A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
Exodus 12:45
What’s interesting is that in the New Testament we see the ethnic origin and bond-status categories removed when it comes to the unity in the body that celebrates the replacement ceremony of the Lord’s Supper.
For by one Spirit are we all baptized into one body, whether we be Jews or Gentiles, whether we be bond or free; and have been all made to drink into one Spirit.
There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither bond nor free, there is neither male nor female: for ye are all one in Christ Jesus.
1 Corinthians 12:13 and Galatians 3:28
Interestingly it seems that this is carried into the prophetic future – the universal application of the future Passover that does not discuss circumcision, but talks about “all the people.”
And upon that day shall the prince prepare for himself and for all the people of the land a bullock for a sin offering.
Ezekiel 45:22
Dispensationalism and the Law 