1 Yahweh 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 be too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor
next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls;
according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the
lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You
shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats: 6 and 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 side-posts and on the lintel, on the houses
in which they shall eat it. 8 They shall eat the flesh in that night,
roasted with fire, and 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 loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your
hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh’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. Against all the gods of
Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh. 13 The blood shall be to you
for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I
will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when
I strike the land of Egypt. 14 This day shall be to you for a memorial,
and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations
you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.
15 Seven days shall you 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 manner of work shall be done in
them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.
17 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same
day have I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall
you 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 Seven days shall there be no yeast found in your
houses, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off
from the congregation of Israel, whether he be 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 side-posts with the blood
that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house
until the morning. 23 For Yahweh will pass through to strike the
Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two
side-posts, Yahweh 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 Yahweh will give you, according 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 Yahweh’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 Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
29 It happened at midnight, that Yahweh 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
cattle. 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 Yahweh, 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 Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the
Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They despoiled the
Egyptians.
37 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six
hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children. 38 A mixed
multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much
cattle. 39 They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought
forth out of Egypt; for it wasn’t leavened, because they were thrust out of
Egypt, and couldn’t wait, neither had they prepared for themselves any food.
40 Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four
hundred thirty years. 41 It happened at the end of four hundred thirty
years, even the same day it happened, that all the hosts of Yahweh went out
from the land of Egypt. 42 It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for
bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Yahweh, to be
much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations.
43 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover.
There shall no foreigner 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 In one house
shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth anything of the flesh abroad out
of the house; neither shall you break a bone of it. 47 All the
congregation of Israel shall keep it. 48 When a stranger shall live as a foreigner
with you, and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be
circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and 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 Thus did all the children of Israel. As Yahweh
commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. 51 It happened the same day, that
Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their
hosts.
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