cut off] It is no light matter, nor little danger to disobey God, though but in a thing (in it selfe) of no great weight. It is a good rule then, (in all Gods commands) to consider, not so much what it is, as who it is, that biddeth or forbiddeth any thing. See Annotation on vers. 15. and on Genesis 17:14. stranger] The Hebrew [Ger,] (from which our English word stranger may be derived) signifieth not onely a foreiner, but such a one as is a Proselyte, or Convert in Religion; and so it is to be understood in this place: and he was not to partake of the Passeover, nor to observe this Feast. Except as Annotat. on vers. 43.