Judah ben Bathyra had done so. Their suspicions aroused, they investigated who the Syrian was, discovered that he was not a Jew, and killed him. Then they sent a message to Rabbi Judah ben Bathyra saying that he was in Nisibis (in northern Mesopotamia), yet his net was spread in Jerusalem. A Midrash asked how to reconcile the command of , "And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: 'This is the ordinance of the Passover: No alien shall eat thereof," with the admonition of , "Neither let the alien who has joined himself to the Lord speak, saying: 'The Lord will surely separate me from his people.'" (Isaiah enjoins us to treat the convert the same as a native Israelite.) The Midrash quoted , in which Job said, "The stranger did not lodge in the street" (that is, none were denied hospitality), to show that God disqualifies no one, but receives all; the city gates were open all the time and anyone could enter them. The Midrash equated , "The stranger did not lodge in the street," with the words of (20:10 in the NJPS), (5:14 in the NJPS), and , "And your stranger who is within your gates," which imply that strangers were integrated into the community. Thus these verses reflect the Divine example of accepting all. Rabbi Berekiah explained that in , Job said, "The stranger did not lodge in the street," because strangers will one day be ministering priests in the Temple, as says: "And the stranger shall join himself with them, and they shall cleave (, venispechu) to the house of Jacob," and the word "cleave" (, venispechu) always refers to priesthood, as says, "Put me (, sefacheini), I pray you, into one of the priests' offices." The Midrash taught that strangers will one day partake of the showbread, because their daughters will be married into the priesthood. The Midrash reported another interpretation of , "Neither let the alien, who has joined himself to the Lord, speak, saying: 'The Lord will surely separate me from his people'": In this interpretation, God addressed converts to Judaism, assuring them that they are not barred from Passover celebrations, noting that converts might have misgivings, because God disqualified aliens from the Passover celebration by commanding in , "No alien shall eat thereof." The Midrash taught that God admonished converts to mark how kindly God treated the Gibeonites, even though