12:1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt,
12:2 “This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.
12:3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household.
12:4 If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat.
12:5 The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats.
12:6 Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the people of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.
12:7 Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.
12:8 That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast.
12:9 Do not eat the meat raw or cooked in water, but roast it over the fire–head, legs and inner parts.
12:10 Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it.
12:11 This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the LORD’S Passover.
12:12 “On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn–both men and animals–and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.
12:13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.
12:14 “This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD–a lasting ordinance.
12:15 For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
12:16 On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat–that is all you may do.
12:17 “Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.
12:18 In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
12:19 For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And whoever eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel, whether he is an alien or native-born.
12:20 Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread.”
12:21 Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.
12:22 Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. Not one of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.
12:23 When the LORD goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
12:24 “Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants.
12:25 When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony.
12:26 And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’
12:27 then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.
12:28 The Israelites did just what the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron.
12:29 At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well.
12:30 Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.
12:31 During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested.
12:32 Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me.”
12:33 The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country. “For otherwise,” they said, “we will all die!”
12:34 So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing.
12:35 The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing.
12:36 The LORD had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.
12:37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.
12:38 Many other people went up with them, as well as large droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.
12:39 With the dough they had brought from Egypt, they baked cakes of unleavened bread. The dough was without yeast because they had been driven out of Egypt and did not have time to prepare food for themselves.
12:40 Now the length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt was 430 years.
12:41 At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’S divisions left Egypt.
12:42 Because the LORD kept vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the LORD for the generations to come.
12:43 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “These are the regulations for the Passover: “No foreigner is to eat of it.
12:44 Any slave you have bought may eat of it after you have circumcised him,
12:45 but a temporary resident and a hired worker may not eat of it.
12:46 “It must be eaten inside one house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones.
12:47 The whole community of Israel must celebrate it.
12:48 “An alien living among you who wants to celebrate the LORD’S Passover must have all the males in his household circumcised; then he may take part like one born in the land. No uncircumcised male may eat of it.
12:49 The same law applies to the native-born and to the alien living among you.”
12:50 All the Israelites did just what the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.
12:51 And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions.
12:1 Then Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
12:2 This month will be the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first of the months of the year to you.
12:3 Speak to all the assembly of Israel, saying, On the tenth of this month each man shall take a lamb according to his fathers house, a lamb for a household.
12:4 And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the persons in the houses; according to each man s eating you shall make your count for the lamb.
12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
12:6 And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole congregation of the assembly of Israel shall kill it at twilight.
12:7 And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
12:8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread with bitter herbs.
12:9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire ? its head with its legs and with its inward parts.
12:10 And you shall not let any of it remain until the morning, but any of it that remains until the morning you shall burn with fire.
12:11 And this is how you shall eat it: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste. It is Jehovah s passover.
12:12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. Also against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments. I am Jehovah.
12:13 And the blood shall be a sign for you upon the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there will be no plague upon you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
12:14 And this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall keep it as a feast to Jehovah; throughout your generations as a perpetual statute you shall keep it as a feast.
12:15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; on the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
12:16 And on the first day you shall have a holy convocation, and on the seventh day a holy convocation. No work at all shall be done on them, except to prepare what every person will eat; that alone may be done by you.
12:17 And you shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall keep this day throughout your generations as a perpetual statute.
12:18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening.
12:19 For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses. For whoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the assembly of Israel, whether a sojourner or a native of the land.
12:20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.
12:21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, Draw out and take lambs according to your families, and slaughter the passover.
12:22 And you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and you shall apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and to the two doorposts; and none of you shall go outside the entrance of his house until the morning.
12:23 For Jehovah will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood upon the lintel and on the two doorposts, Jehovah will pass over the entrance and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you.
12:24 And you shall observe this matter as a statute for you and for your sons in perpetuity.
12:25 And when you come to the land which Jehovah will give you, as He has promised, you shall observe this service.
12:26 And when your children say to you, What do you mean by this service?
12:27 You shall say, It is the passover sacrifice to Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses. And the people bowed and worshipped.
12:28 And the children of Israel went and did so; just as Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
12:29 And 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 cattle.
12:30 And Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house where there was not someone dead.
12:31 And he called for Moses and Aaron in the night and said, Rise up, go out from the midst of my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Jehovah, as you have said.
12:32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said; and go and bless me also.
12:33 And the Egyptians urged the people on, so as to hasten their departure out of the land, for they said, All of us will be dead.
12:34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
12:35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses, and they asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing.
12:36 And Jehovah gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.
12:37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children.
12:38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them, as well as flocks and herds, a very large number of livestock.
12:39 And they baked the dough which they brought out of Egypt into unleavened cakes, for it had not been leavened because they were driven out of Egypt and could not delay; nor had they prepared for themselves any provisions.
12:40 Now the time of the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred thirty years.
12:41 And at the end of four hundred thirty years, on that very day, all the armies of Jehovah went out from the land of Egypt.
12:42 It was for Jehovah a night of watching, to bring them out from the land of Egypt. That same night is a night of watching to Jehovah for all the children of Israel throughout their generations.
12:43 And Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron, This is the statute of the passover: No foreigner shall eat of it.
12:44 However, any man s servant who is bought with money, when you have circumcised him, then he shall eat of it.
12:45 A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.
12:46 It shall be eaten in one house. You shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, nor shall you break any of its bones.
12:47 All the assembly of Israel shall keep it.
12:48 But if a stranger sojourns with you and will observe the Passover to Jehovah, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near to observe it; and he will be like one who is a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
12:49 One law shall be for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you.
12:50 And all the children of Israel did so; just as Jehovah commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
12:51 And on that very day Jehovah brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.