Exodus 12

1 Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

2 “This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.

3 Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must select a lamb for his family, one per household.

4 If the household is too small for a whole lamb, they are to share with the nearest neighbor based on the number of people, and apportion the lamb accordingly.

5 Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.

6 You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.

7 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.

8 They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

9 Do not eat any of the meat raw or cooked in boiling water, but only roasted over the fire—its head and legs and inner parts.

10 Do not leave any of it until morning; before the morning you must burn up any part that is left over.

11 This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.

12 On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn male, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.

13 The blood on the houses where you are staying will be a sign; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will fall on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

14 And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.

15 For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.

16 On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly, and another on the seventh day. You must not do any work on those days, except to prepare the meals—that is all you may do.

17 So you are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your divisions out of the land of Egypt. You must keep this day as a permanent statute for the generations to come.

18 In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.

19 For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation of Israel.

20 You are not to eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.”

21 Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, “Go at once and select for yourselves a lamb for each family, and slaughter the Passover lamb.

22 Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.

23 When the LORD passes through to strike down the Egyptians, He will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway; so He will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.

24 And you are to keep this command as a permanent statute for you and your descendants.

25 When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as He promised, you are to keep this service.

26 When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’

27 you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.

28 And the Israelites went and did just what the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.

29 Now at midnight the LORD struck down 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 dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock.

30 During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.

31 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Get up, leave my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested.

32 Take your flocks and herds as well, just as you have said, and depart! And bless me also.”

33 And in order to send them out of the land quickly, the Egyptians urged the people on. “For otherwise,” they said, “we are all going to die!”

34 So the people took their dough before it was leavened, carrying it on their shoulders in kneading bowls wrapped in clothing.

35 Furthermore, the Israelites acted on Moses’ word and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold, and for clothing.

36 And the LORD gave the people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that they granted their request. In this way they plundered the Egyptians.

37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.

38 And a mixed multitude also went up with them, along with great droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.

39 Since their dough had no leaven, the people baked what they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves. For when they had been driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves.

40 Now the duration of the Israelites’ stay in Egypt was 430 years.

41 At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions went out of the land of Egypt.

42 Because the LORD kept a vigil that night to bring them out of the land of Egypt, this same night is to be a vigil to the LORD, to be observed by all the Israelites for the generations to come.

43 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.

44 But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.

45 A temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover.

46 It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of the bones.

47 The whole congregation of Israel must celebrate it.

48 If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.

49 The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”

50 Then all the Israelites did this—they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.

51 And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.

1 ¶ And the LORD 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 the house of [their] fathers, a lamb for an house:

4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take [it] according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.

5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take [it] out from the sheep, or from the goats:

6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike [it] on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.

8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; [and] with bitter [herbs] they shall eat it.

9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast [with] fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and 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] the LORD'S passover.

12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I [am] the LORD.

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 the plague shall not 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 the LORD 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] an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save [that] which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.

17 And ye shall observe [the feast of] unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in 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, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or 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 a lamb 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 bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that [is] in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.

23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD 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 be come to the land which the LORD 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 the LORD'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 away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.

29 ¶ And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that [was] in the dungeon; and all the firstborn 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, [and] get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.

32 Also take 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, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We [be] all dead [men].

34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.

35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:

36 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them [such things as they required]. And they spoiled the Egyptians.

37 ¶ And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot [that were] men, beside 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 victual.

40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, [was] four hundred and thirty years.

41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.

42 It [is] a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this [is] that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.

43 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This [is] the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger 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 foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.

46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought 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 the LORD, 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: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.

51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, [that] the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.

1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:

2 This moon shall be with you the first moon: and from it ye shall lift up the moons of the year.

3 Speak unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, On the tenth day of this month take ye every man a lamb, where there is a father of the house, one lamb for each house.

4 And if there be not enough of them in one house for a lamb, let him take it, and his neighbour that is next unto his house, until they be so many that they may eat the lamb.

5 And ye shall take one lamb without blemish, a male, and of the first year old: of the lambs and of the kids ye shall take it.

6 And ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the month. And every company of all Israel shall slay it between the evenings.

7 And thou shalt take the blood thereof, and put it upon the two posts of the door, and upon the topmost threshold of the houses, where they eat it within.

8 And ye shall eat flesh that night roasted with fire, and unleavened bread; and ye shall eat it with bitter salts.

9 Ye shall not eat it raw, neither shall ye boil it with water; but ye shall roast it with fire, the head thereof, with the thighs thereof, and the inwards thereof.

10 And ye shall leave none of it until the morning: but if any remain until the morning, ye shall burn it with fire.

11 And thus shall ye eat it: Ye shall be girded about your loins, and your shoes shall be upon your feet, and your staffs in your hands: and ye shall eat it as they that pass over: for it is the LORD'S passover.

12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. And I will execute my punishment upon all the gods of Egypt, I the LORD.

13 And the blood shall be your sign in the houses wherein ye are, that, when I see the blood, I may pass over before you, and the plague shall not befall you, which shall destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.

14 And ye shall have this day in remembrance, and ye shall keep it a feast unto the LORD, ye, and all your generations, for an everlasting manner.

15 Seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread: ye shall cease from leavened bread in your houses the first day. He that eateth leavened bread from the first day even unto the seventh day, his soul shall be cut off from Israel.

16 The first day shall be holy, that ye come together: and the seventh day also shall be holy, that ye come together. Ye shall do no work within, save that which pertaineth unto meat for all souls: ye shall do the same only for yourselves.

17 And keep the unleavened bread: for in the same day I brought forth your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore ye shall keep this day, and all your generations for an everlasting time.

18 On the fourteenth day of the first month at even ye shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty and first day of the month at even,

19 That no leavened bread be found in your houses seven days. For whosoever eateth leavened bread, his soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger or a native of the land.

20 Wherefore eat no leavened bread, but unleavened bread throughout all your dwellings.

21 And Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them: Read, and take sheep every man for his household, and slay the passover.

22 And take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood of the laver, and touch the lintel and the two posts with it. And let no man go out at the door of his house until the morning.

23 For the LORD will go about and afflict the Egyptians. And when he seeth the blood upon the threshold, and upon the two posts, he shall pass over at the door, and shall not suffer the destroyer to come into your houses to afflict you.

24 Therefore keep this manner for thyself and for thy children for ever.

25 And when ye are come into the land which the LORD shall give you, as he hath spoken, keep this service.

26 And when your children shall say unto you, What service have ye?

27 And ye shall say, It is the passover offering of the LORD, which passed over before the children of Israel in Egypt, when he afflicted the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. Then the people bowed down and stooped.

28 And the children of Israel went and did as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron.

29 And at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in prison, and all the firstborn of cattle.

30 And Pharaoh arose, and all his servants that night, and all the Egyptians: and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house without a dead man within.

31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Arise, go out from among my people, ye and the children of Israel; go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.

32 Take also with you your flocks and your herds, as ye have said; go ye also, and bless me.

33 And the Egyptians pressed upon the people, and drove them out of the land with haste: for they said: We are all of us dead.

34 And the people took the raw dough, before it was leavened, for their meat, bound in their garments, upon their shoulders.

35 And the children of Israel had done as Moses had said, and had required of the Egyptians silver and gold vessels and garments.

36 For this the LORD had given the people grace in the sight of the Egyptians, that they should lend unto them: and they took it from the Egyptians.

37 So the children of Israel went out from Raemses to Sukhoth, six hundred thousand men on foot without the children.

38 And there went with them also much common people, and sheep, and oxen, and almost many cattle.

39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the uncooked dough which they brought out of Egypt: for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt; and they could not forgive, neither had they prepared any meat for them.

40 And the time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

41 And when they were come to an end, all the host of the LORD went out of the land of Egypt in one day.

42 Therefore this night is kept unto the LORD, because he brought them up out of the land of Egypt: and the children of Israel shall keep it unto the LORD, they and their seed.

43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the manner of keeping the passover: No stranger shall eat thereof.

44 But he that is a hired servant, let him be circumcised, and then let him eat thereof.

45 A householder and a hireling shall not eat thereof.

46 It shall be eaten in one house: ye shall carry none of the flesh thereof out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone in it.

47 All the congregation of Israel shall do this thing.

48 And if a stranger sojourn with thee, and keep the passover unto the LORD, let him circumcise all that is male; and let him come near to do it, and be as a native of the land: for no uncircumcised man shall eat thereof.

49 One law to the native, and to the stranger that sojourneth among you.

50 And all the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron.

51 So the LORD brought forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt with their armies in one day.