Exodus 12
1 Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
The Lord told Moses and Aaron while they were still in Egypt,
2 "This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.
“This month will be for you the first month, the first month of your year.
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;
Tell all the Israelites that on the tenth day of this month, every man must choose a lamb for his family, one for each 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.
However, if the household is too small for a whole lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor may choose a lamb according to the total number of people. Divide up the lamb depending on what everybody can eat.
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male in its first year. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
Your lamb must be a year-old male without any defects, and you can take it either from the sheep or 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.
Keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the Israelites will slaughter the animals after sunset and before it gets dark.
7 They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.
They are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they have the meal.
8 They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.
They are to roast the meat over a fire and eat it that night, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
9 Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.
You are not to eat the meat raw or boiled in water. All of it must be roasted it over a fire, including the head, legs, and its insides.
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.
Make sure nothing is left until the morning. If there is anything left over, burn it by morning.
11 This is how you shall eat it: with your waist girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD's Passover.
This is how you are to eat the meal. You should be dressed ready to travel, with your sandals on your feet and your walking stick in your hand. You are to eat quickly—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. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD.
That very night I will go all through Egypt and kill every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring condemnation on 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: 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.
The blood on the houses where you live will mark them out. When I see the blood, I will pass over you. No deathly plague will fall on you to destroy you when I attack Egypt.
14 This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to the LORD: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.
This will be a day to remember for you. You are to celebrate it as a festival to the Lord for generations to come. You will observe this for all time to come.
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.
For seven days you must eat only bread made without yeast. On the first day you are to get rid of the yeast from your houses. Anyone who eats anything with yeast from the first day to seventh day must be excluded from the Israelite community.
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.
On both the first day and on the seventh day you are to have a holy meeting. You must not work on those days, except to prepare food. That is all you are allowed to do.
17 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day have I brought your regiments out of the land of Egypt: therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.
You are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread because on this very day I led your tribes by their respective divisions out of Egypt. You are to observe this day for all time to come.
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.
In the first month you are to eat bread without yeast from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
19 For seven days yeast must not be found in your houses, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that person must be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.
For seven days there must be no yeast in your houses. If anyone eats something with yeast in it, then they must be excluded from the Israelite community, whether they are a foreigner or native of the land.
20 You must eat nothing leavened. In all your places where you live you must eat unleavened bread.'"
You must not eat anything with yeast in it. Eat only bread without yeast in all your homes.”
21 Then Moses called for all the elders of the children of Israel, and said to them, "Go and select lambs according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb.
Then Moses called together all the elders of Israel and told them, “Go immediately and choose a lamb for each of your families, and kill the Passover lamb.
22 And you are to take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and apply it on the top and on both sides of the doorframe with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you is to go out of the door of his house until morning.
Get a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and put some on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you are to go out through door of the house until morning.
23 For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.
When the Lord passes through to punish the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. He will pass over the door, and he will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses and kill you.
24 And you must observe this as an ordinance for you and your children forever.
You and your descendants are to remember to observe these instructions for all time to come.
25 And it shall come to pass when you enter the land which the LORD will give you, as he has promised, you must keep this ceremony.
When you enter the land that the Lord promised to give you, you are to observe this ceremony.
26 And it shall be, when your children ask you, 'What do you mean by this ceremony?'
When your children come and ask you, ‘Why is this ceremony important to you?’
27 that you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of the LORD's Passover, because he passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.'" And the people bowed down and worshiped.
you are to tell them, ‘This is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord. He was the one who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he killed the Egyptians but spared our households.’” The people bowed down in worship.
28 Then the children of Israel went away and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
Then the Israelites went and did just as the Lord had told Moses and Aaron.
29 And it came to pass at midnight that the LORD killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the prison, and all the firstborn of livestock.
At midnight the Lord killed every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the jail, and also all the firstborn of the livestock.
30 And Pharaoh got up during the night, he, and all his servants, and all Egypt, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not someone dead.
Pharaoh got up during the night, as well as all his officials and all the Egyptians. There were loud cries of agony throughout Egypt, because there wasn't a single house where someone hadn't died.
31 Then he summoned for Moses and Aaron during the night, and said, "Get up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have requested.
Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron during the night and told them, “Get out of here! Leave my people, the two of you and the Israelites! Go, so you can worship the Lord as you have asked.
32 Take your flocks and your herds, as you have requested, and be gone, but bless me also."
Take your flocks and herds as well, just like you've said, and leave! Oh, and bless me too.”
33 The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land quickly, for they said, "We will all be dead."
The Egyptians urged the Israelites to leave their country as quickly as possible, saying, “Otherwise we'll all die!”
34 So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls wrapped in their clothing on their shoulders.
So the Israelites picked up their dough before it had risen, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading bowls wrapped in clothing.
35 Now the children of Israel did according to what Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and articles of gold and clothing.
In addition, the Israelites did what Moses had told them and asked the Egyptians for objects of silver and gold, and for clothing.
36 And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and they gave them whatever they wanted. And so they plundered Egypt.
The Lord had made the Egyptians look so favorably on the Israelites that they agreed their request. In this way they took the wealth of the Egyptians.
37 And the children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides their dependents.
The Israelites set out on foot from Rameses for Succoth and numbered about 600,000 men, as well as women and children.
38 And a mixed crowd also went up with them, and a huge number of livestock, both flocks and herds.
In addition many foreigners joined them. They also took with them large herds and flocks of livestock.
39 And they baked unleavened loaves using the dough that they had brought out of Egypt; for it wasn't leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn't wait, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves.
Since their bread dough didn't have any yeast, the Israelites baked what they had brought out of Egypt into loaves without yeast. This was because when they were driven out of Egypt they had to leave in a hurry and didn't have time to prepare food for themselves.
40 Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.
The Israelites had lived in Egypt for 430 years.
41 And it came to pass at the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, it came to pass that all the regiments of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
On the very day the 430 years ended, all the tribes of the Lord by their respective divisions left Egypt.
42 It was a night when the LORD kept vigil to bring them out from the land of Egypt. So on this night all the children of Israel must keep a vigil to the LORD throughout their generations.
Because the Lord kept watch that night to lead them out of the land of Egypt, you are to keep watch this same night as an observance to honor the Lord, to be kept by all Israelites for generations to come.
43 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner may eat of it,
The Lord told Moses and Aaron, “This is the Passover ceremony. No foreigner is allowed to eat it.
44 but every man's servant who is bought for money, after you have circumcised him, may he eat of it.
But any slave who has been bought can eat it once you have circumcised him.
45 A foreigner and a hired servant must not eat of it.
Foreign visitors or those hired from other nations shall not eat the Passover.
46 It is to be eaten in one house. You must not take any of the meat outside the house, and you are not to break any of its bones.
It has to be eaten inside the house. You are not allowed to take any of the meat outside the house, or to break any of the bones.
47 All the congregation of Israel is to keep it.
All Israelites are to celebrate it.
48 If a foreigner lives with you and wants to keep the Passover to the LORD, all his males must be circumcised, and then he may take part and observe it, and he will be like one who is born in the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat of it.
If there's a foreigner lives with you and wants to celebrate the Lord's Passover, all the males in their household have to be circumcised. Then he may come and celebrate it, and he shall be treated like a native of the land. But no man who is not circumcised may eat it.
49 The same law will apply to the native-born and to the foreigner who lives among you."
The same rule applies to both the native and the foreigner who lives among you.”
50 So all the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
Then all the Israelites followed these instructions. They did exactly what the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.
51 And it happened on this very day that the LORD brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their regiments.
That very day the Lord led the Israelite tribes out of Egypt by their respective tribal divisions.
