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1 Jehovah 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; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the
lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without defect, 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 door 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 belt
on your waist, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you
shall eat it in haste: it is Jehovah’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 Jehovah. 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 be no plague 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 Jehovah:
throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast 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 On the first day there shall be to you a holy
convocation, and on the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall
be done on 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 on 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 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 door 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 Jehovah will pass through to strike
the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door
posts, Jehovah 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 Jehovah 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 Jehovah’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 Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron,
so they did.
29 At midnight, Jehovah 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 Jehovah, 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 Jehovah 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, besides 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 Jehovah’s
armies went out from the land of Egypt. 42 It is a night to be much
observed to Jehovah for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that
night of Jehovah, to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout
their generations.
43 Jehovah 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 shall live as a
foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to Jehovah, 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 All the children of Israel did so. As Jehovah
commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. 51 That same day, Jehovah brought the
children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
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