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1 The
LORD spoke to
Moses and Aaron in
the land of Egypt,
saying,
2 “This
month shall be
to you the
beginning of
months. It shall
be the first
month of the
year to you.
3 Speak
to all the
congregation of
Israel, saying, ‘On
the tenth day
of this month,
they shall take
to them every
man a lamb,
according to their fathers’
houses, a lamb
for a household;
4 and
if the household
is too little
for a lamb,
then he and
his neighbor next
to his house
shall take one
according to the
number of the
souls. You shall
make your count
for the lamb
according to
what everyone can
eat.
5 Your
lamb shall be
without defect, a
male a year
old. You shall
take it from
the sheep or
from the goats.
6 You
shall keep it
until the
fourteenth day of
the same month;
and the whole
assembly of the
congregation of
Israel shall kill
it at evening.
7 They
shall take some
of the blood,
and put it
on the two
door posts and
on the lintel,
on the houses
in which they
shall eat it.
8 They
shall eat the meat
in that night,
roasted with fire,
with unleavened
bread. They
shall eat it with
bitter herbs.
9 Don’t eat it
raw, nor boiled
at all with
water, but roasted
with fire; with
its head, its
legs and its
inner parts.
10 You
shall let nothing
of it remain
until the morning;
but that which
remains of it
until the morning
you shall burn
with fire.
11 This
is how you
shall eat it: with
your belt on your
waist, your
sandals on your
feet, and your
staff in your
hand; and you
shall eat it in
haste: it is
the LORD’s
Passover.
12 For
I will go
through the land
of Egypt in
that night, and
will strike all
the firstborn in
the land of Egypt,
both man
and animal. I will
execute judgments
against all
the gods of Egypt.
I am the
LORD.
13 The
blood shall be
to you for
a token on the
houses where you
are. When I
see the blood,
I will pass
over you, and
no plague will
be on you
to destroy you
when I strike
the land of Egypt.
14 This
day shall be
a memorial for
you. You shall
keep it as
a feast to
the LORD. You
shall keep it
as a feast
throughout your
generations by an
ordinance forever.
15 “ ‘Seven
days you shall eat
unleavened bread;
even the first
day you shall
put away yeast
out of your
houses, for
whoever eats leavened
bread from the
first day until
the seventh day,
that soul shall
be cut off
from Israel.
16 In
the first day
there shall be
to you a
holy convocation,
and in the
seventh day a
holy convocation;
no kind of work
shall be done
in them, except
that which every
man must eat, only
that may be
done by you.
17 You
shall observe
the feast of
unleavened bread;
for in this
same day I
have brought your
armies out of
the land of Egypt.
Therefore you
shall observe this
day throughout
your generations
by an ordinance
forever.
18 In
the first month,
on the fourteenth
day of the
month at evening,
you shall eat
unleavened bread,
until the twenty
first day of
the month at
evening.
19 There
shall be no
yeast found in
your houses for
seven days, for
whoever eats that
which is leavened,
that soul shall
be cut off
from the
congregation of
Israel, whether he
is a foreigner,
or one who
is born in
the land.
20 You
shall eat nothing
leavened. In all
your habitations
you shall eat
unleavened bread.’ ”
21 Then
Moses called for
all the elders
of Israel, and
said to them, “Draw
out, and take
lambs according to
your families, and
kill the Passover.
22 You
shall take a bunch
of hyssop, and dip
it in the
blood that is
in the basin,
and strike the
lintel and the
two door posts
with the blood
that is in
the basin. None
of you shall
go out of
the door of
his house until
the morning.
23 For
the LORD will
pass through to
strike the
Egyptians; and
when he sees
the blood on
the lintel, and
on the two
door posts, the
LORD will pass
over the door,
and will not
allow the
destroyer to come
in to your
houses to strike
you.
24 You
shall observe this
thing for an
ordinance to you
and to your
sons forever.
25 It
shall happen when
you have come
to the land which
the LORD will
give you, as
he has promised,
that you shall
keep this service.
26 It
will happen, when
your children ask
you, ‘What do
you mean by this
service?’
27 that
you shall say, ‘It
is the sacrifice
of the LORD’s
Passover, who
passed over the
houses of the
children of Israel
in Egypt, when
he struck the
Egyptians, and
spared our
houses.’ ”
The people bowed
their heads and
worshiped.
28 The
children of Israel
went and did
so; as the
LORD had commanded
Moses and Aaron,
so they did.
29 At
midnight, the LORD
struck all the
firstborn in
the land of Egypt,
from the firstborn
of Pharaoh who
sat on his
throne to the
firstborn of the
captive who was
in the dungeon,
and all the
firstborn of livestock.
30 Pharaoh
rose up in
the night, he,
and all his
servants, and all
the Egyptians; and
there was a
great cry in
Egypt, for there
was not a
house where there
was not one
dead.
31 He
called for Moses
and Aaron by night,
and said, “Rise
up, get out
from among my
people, both you
and the children
of Israel; and
go, serve the
LORD, as you
have said!
32 Take
both your flocks
and your herds,
as you have
said, and be
gone; and bless
me also!”
33 The
Egyptians were
urgent with the
people, to send
them out of
the land in haste,
for they said, “We
are all dead
men.”
34 The
people took their
dough before it
was leavened,
their kneading troughs
being bound up
in their clothes
on their shoulders.
35 The
children of Israel
did according to
the word of
Moses; and they
asked of the
Egyptians jewels
of silver, and
jewels of gold,
and clothing.
36 The
LORD gave the
people favor in
the sight of
the Egyptians, so
that they let
them have what
they asked. They
plundered the
Egyptians.
37 The
children of Israel
traveled from
Rameses to Succoth,
about six
hundred thousand on
foot who were
men, in addition
to children.
38 A
mixed multitude
went up also
with them, with
flocks, herds, and
even very much
livestock.
39 They baked
unleavened cakes
of the dough
which they brought
out of Egypt;
for it wasn’t
leavened, because
they were thrust
out of Egypt,
and couldn’t wait,
and they had
not prepared any
food for
themselves.
40 Now
the time that
the children of
Israel lived in
Egypt was four
hundred thirty
years.
41 At
the end of four
hundred thirty
years, to the
day, all of
the LORD’s armies
went out from
the land of Egypt.
42 It
is a night
to be much
observed to the
LORD for bringing
them out from
the land of Egypt.
This is that
night of the
LORD, to be
much observed by
all the children
of Israel
throughout their
generations.
43 The
LORD said to Moses
and Aaron, “This
is the ordinance
of the Passover.
No foreigner
shall eat of it,
44 but
every man’s
servant who is
bought for money,
when you have
circumcised him,
then shall he eat
of it.
45 A
foreigner and a
hired servant
shall not eat of
it.
46 It
must be eaten in
one house. You
shall not carry
any of the
meat outside of
the house. Do
not break any
of its bones.
47 All
the congregation
of Israel shall
keep it.
48 When
a stranger lives
as a foreigner
with you, and
would like to
keep the Passover
to the LORD,
let all his
males be
circumcised, and
then let him
come near and
keep it. He
shall be as
one who is
born in the land;
but no
uncircumcised person
shall eat of it.
49 One
law shall be
to him who
is born at home,
and to the
stranger who lives
as a foreigner
among you.”
50 All
the children of
Israel did so.
As the LORD
commanded Moses
and Aaron, so they
did.
51 That
same day, the
LORD brought the
children of Israel
out of the land
of Egypt by
their armies.