Exodus 12

The Institution of the Passover

1 s The Lord saidt to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,t2 “This month is to be your beginning of months; it will be your first month of the year.s3 Tell the whole community of Israel, ‘In the tenth day of this month they eacht must take a lambt for themselves according to their familiests – a lamb for each household.t4 If any household is too smalls for a lamb,t the mant and his next-door neighbort are to taket a lamb according to the number of people – you will make your count for the lamb according to how much each one can eat.ts5 Your lamb must bet perfect,t a male, one year old;t you may taket it from the sheep or from the goats.6 You must care for itt until the fourteenth day of this month, and then the whole communityt of Israel will kill it around sundown.t7 They will take some of the blood and put it on the two side posts and top of the doorframe of the houses where they will eat it.8 They will eat the meat the same night;t they will eat it roasted over the fire with bread made without yeasts and with bitter herbs.9 Do not eat it raws or boiled in water, but roast it over the fire with its head, its legs, and its entrails.10 You must leave nothing until morning, but you must burn with fire whatever remains of it until morning.

11 This is how you are to eat it – dressed to travel,t your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover.t
12 I will pass throught the land of Egypt in the samet night, and I will attackt all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of humans and of animals,t and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment.t I am the Lord.

13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, so that when I seet the blood I will pass over you,t and this plaguet will not fall on you to destroy yout when I attackt the land of Egypt.s
14 This day will becomet a memorialts for you, and you will celebrate it as a festivalt to the Lord – you will celebrate it perpetually as a lasting ordinance.t

15 For seven dayst you must eatt bread made without yeast.t Surelyt on the first day you must put away yeast from your houses because anyone who eats bread made with yeastt from the first day to the seventh day will be cut offts from Israel.
16 On the first day there will be a holy convocation,s and on the seventh day there will be a holy convocation for you. You must do no work of any kinds on them, only what every person will eat – that alone may be prepared for you.17 So you will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because on this veryt day I brought your regimentst out from the land of Egypt, and so you must keep this day perpetually as a lasting ordinance.t18 In the first month,t from the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you will eat bread made without yeast until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening.19 For seven dayst yeast must not be found in your houses, for whoever eats what is made with yeast – that persont will be cut off from the community of Israel, whether a foreignert or one born in the land.

20 You will not eat anything made with yeast; in all the places where you live you must eat bread made without yeast.’”
21 Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel, and told them, “Go and selectt for yourselves a lamb or young goatt for your families, and kill the Passover animals.t22 Take a branch of hyssop,s dip it in the blood that is in the basin,t and apply to the top of the doorframe and the two side posts some of the blood that is in the basin. Not one of you is to go outt the door of his house until morning.23 For the Lord will pass through to strike Egypt, and when he seest the blood on the top of the doorframe and the two side posts, then the Lord will pass over the door, and he will not permit the destroyert to enter your houses to strike you.t24 You must observe this event as an ordinance for you and for your children forever.25 When you enter the land that the Lord will give to you, just as he said, you must observet this ceremony.26 When your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’t –27 then you will say, ‘It is the sacrifices of the Lord’s Passover, when he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he struckt Egypt and delivered our households.’” The people bowed down lowt to the ground,

28 and the Israelites went away and did exactly as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.t

The Deliverance from Egypt

29 s It happenedt at midnight – the Lord attacked 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 prison, and all the firstborn of the cattle.30 Pharaoh got upt in the night,t along with all his servants and all Egypt, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no houses in which there was not someone dead.31 Pharaoht summoned Moses and Aaron in the night and said, “Get up, get outt from among my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, serve the Lord as you have requested!ts

32 Also, take your flocks and your herds, just as you have requested, and leave. But bless me also.”ts
33 The Egyptians were urgingt the people on, in order to send them out of the land quickly,t for they were saying, “We are all dead!”34 So the people took their dough before the yeast was added,t with their kneading troughs bound up in their clothing on their shoulders.35 Now the Israelites had donet as Moses told them – they had requested from the Egyptianst silver and gold items and clothing.

36 The Lordt gave the people favors in the sight of the Egyptians, and they gave them whatever they wanted,t and so they plundered Egypt.s
37 The Israelites journeyedt from Ramesess to Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 ments on foot, plus their dependants.t38 A mixed multitudet also went up with them, and flocks and herds – a very large number of cattle.t

39 They baked cakes of bread without yeast using the dough they had brought from Egypt, for it was made without yeast – because they were thrust outs of Egypt and were not able to delay, theyt could not preparet food for themselves either.
40 Now the length of time the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.s41 At the end of the 430 years, on the very day, all the regimentss of the Lord went out of the land of Egypt.

42 It was a night of vigil for the Lord to bring them out from the land of Egypt,t and sot on this night all Israel is to keep the vigilt to the Lord for generations to come.

Participation in the Passover

43 s The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner mayt share in eating it.t44 But everyone’s servant who is bought for money, after you have circumcised him, may eat it.45 A foreigner and a hired worker must not eat it.46 It must be eaten in one house; you must not bring any of the meat outside the house, and you must not break a bone of it.

47 The whole community of Israel must observe it.
48 “When a foreigner livest with you and wants to observe the Passover to the Lord, all his males must be circumcised,t and then he may approach and observe it, and he will be like one who is born in the landt – but no uncircumcised person may eat of it.

49 The same law will applyt to the person who is native-born and to the foreigner who lives among you.”
50 So all the Israelites did exactly as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.t

51 And on this very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their regiments.

Exodus 12

1 And Jehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In 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 shall he and his neighbor next unto his house take one according to the number of the souls; according to every man’s eating ye shall make your count for the lamb.5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old: ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:6 and ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at even.7 And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel, upon the houses wherein they shall eat it.8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it.9 Eat not of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with the inwards thereof.10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.11 And thus shall ye eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye 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 smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Jehovah.13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to Jehovah: throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.16 And 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, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance for ever.18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or one that is born in the land.20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.

21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out, and take you lambs according to your families, and kill the passover.22 And ye 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 Jehovah will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side-posts, Jehovah will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.25 And it shall come to pass, when ye are come to the land which Jehovah will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?27 that ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of Jehovah’s passover, 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 the head and worshipped.28 And the children of Israel went and did so; as Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.

29 And it came to pass at midnight, that Jehovah smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle.30 And 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 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve Jehovah, as ye have said.32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, to send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We are all dead men.34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.35 And 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 raiment.36 And Jehovah gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. And they despoiled the Egyptians.

37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, besides children.38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt; for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victuals.40 Now the time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.41 And it came to pass at the end of four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of Jehovah went out from the land of Egypt.42 It is a night to be much observed unto 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 And Jehovah said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: there shall no foreigner eat thereof;44 but every man’s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.45 A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof.46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth aught of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, 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 that is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.49 One law shall be to him that is home-born, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as Jehovah commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that Jehovah did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.