they deceived the Israelites into swearing to preserve them in . The Midrash taught that if God allowed them satisfaction for their wrongs in , how much more would God receive favorably and promote the proselytes who come to serve God out of sheer love. Hence , says: "Neither let the alien, who has joined himself to the Lord, speak, saying: 'The Lord will surely separate me from his people.'" And converts can certainly celebrate the Paschal offering. Noting that , "This is the ordinance (, chukat) of the Passover," uses the same term as , "This is the statute (, chukat) of the Law," a Midrash found the statute of the Passover and the statute of the Red Heifer similar to one another. The Midrash taught that , "Let my heart be undivided in your statutes," refers to this similarity, and asked which statute is greater than the other. The Midrash likened this to the case of two ladies who were walking side by side together apparently on an equal footing; who then is the greater? She whom her friend accompanies to her house and so is really being followed by the friend. The Midrash concluded that the law of the Red Cow is the greater, for those who eat the Passover need the Red Cow's purifying ashes, as says, "And for the unclean they shall take of the ashes of the burning of the purification from sin." The Mekhilta of Rabbi Ishmael asked why directed that there be one law for both the native and the stranger who sojourns among us when had just enjoined that the stranger be treated as one who is born in the land. The Mekhilta of Rabbi Ishmael concluded that comes to declare that the convert is equal to the born Jew with respect to all the Torah's commandments. The Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer read to say, "And it came to pass at the essential part of the day, that the Lord did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts." The Pirke de-Rabbi Eliezer taught that God thought that if God brought the Israelites out by night, the Egyptians would say that God acted like a thief. Therefore, God decided to bring the Israelites out when the sun was at its zenith at midday. Exodus chapter 13 The Mishnah taught that the absence of one of the