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The Book of Exodus 12

12 And Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 “This month is to you the head of the months. It is the first to you of the months of the year. 3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they shall take to themselves, each man, a lamb to the house of the fathers: a lamb to a house. 4 And if the household is too few for having a lamb, then he and his neighbor near to his house by the number of people shall take the lamb; according to the eating of the mouth of each man you shall calculate it. 5 Your lamb shall be complete, male, the son of a year. You may take from the sheep or from the goats. 6 And it shall be to you to reserve until the fourteenth day of this month. And all the assembly of the congregation of Israel shall slaughter it between the evenings. 7 And they shall take from the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8 And they shall eat the flesh that night, roast of fire, and they shall eat unleavened bread over bitter herbs. 9 You shall not eat from it raw or boiled from boiling in water. But instead, roasted of fire, its head with its legs and with its internal organs. 10 And you shall not cause to remain anything from it until morning; and you shall burn in the fire what remains from it until morning. 11 And this is how you shall eat it: belts fastened on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it with haste. It is the Passover to Yahweh.

12 And I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from man to beast. And I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh. 13 And the blood will be a sign for you on the houses which you are in. And I will see the blood, and I will pass over above you, and the plague will not be on you for destruction as my striking on the land of Egypt.

14 And this day shall become a memorial for you, and you shall celebrate it as a festival to Yahweh for your generations—a statute you shall celebrate forever. 15 You shall eat unleavened bread for seven days. Yes—on the first day you shall remove yeast from your houses, because anyone who eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. 16 And on the first day an assembly of holiness, and on the seventh day an assembly of holiness shall be for you. All work shall not be done in these, except what each person eats, that alone may be done by you.

17 And you shall keep the Unleavened Bread, because on this very day I will have brought out your hosts from the land of Egypt. And you shall keep this day throughout your generations, a statute forever. 18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day in the evening you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening. 19 For seven days no yeast shall be found in your houses. Because anyone who eats yeasted bread, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel—among the sojourner or among the native of the land. 20 You shall not eat any yeast; in all of your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.’ ”

21 And Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and he said to them, “Proceed and take a lamb for yourself, according to your families, and slaughter the Passover. 22 And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin and apply to the lintel and to both the doorposts from the blood that is in the basin. And you, not a man shall go out from the door of his house until morning. 23 And Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians. And he will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and Yahweh will pass over the door and will not permit the causer of destruction to enter into your houses to strike.

24 And you shall keep this thing as a statute for you and for your sons until eternity. 25 And so it will happen, as you enter into the land that Yahweh will give to you, just as he said, then you shall keep this service. 26 And it will happen, when your sons are saying to you, ‘What is this service to you?’ 27 then you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of Passover to Yahweh, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt in striking the Egyptians. And he rescued our households.’ ” And the people bowed their heads and prostrated themselves. 28 And the sons of Israel went and did; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

29 And so it happened, in the middle of the night, and Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh sitting on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the house of the pit, and all the firstborn of beasts. 30 And Pharaoh got 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 someone dead.

31 And he called for Moses and for Aaron in the night and said, “Get up, get out from among my people, both you and also the sons of Israel. And go, serve Yahweh, as you have said. 32 Also take your flocks, also your herds as you have said, and go, and also bless me.”

33 And the Egyptians strengthened the people, hurrying to let them go from the land, for they said, “We are all dying.” 34 And the people carried his dough before it developed leaven. Their kneading bowls were wrapped in their clothes on their shoulders. 35 And the sons of Israel did according to the word of Moses. And they asked from the Egyptians items of silver and items of gold and clothing. 36 And Yahweh gave the people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians. And they made the request, and they plundered the Egyptians.

37 And the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses toward Succoth, about 600,000 strong men on foot, apart from children. 38 And also a mixed multitude went up with them, and flock and herd—a very great number of livestock. 39 And they baked the dough that they brought from Egypt into unleavened bread, for it was not leavened, because they were driven out of Egypt, and they could not delay. And furthermore, they had not made provisions for themselves.

40 And the residence of the sons of Israel, during which they resided in Egypt, was 430 years. 41 And so it was, at the end of 430 years, it was on that very day all of the hosts of Yahweh went out from the land of Egypt. 42 It was a night of observing for Yahweh to bring them out from the land of Egypt. This night, it is for all the sons of Israel to observe for Yahweh throughout their generations.

43 And Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: Any son of foreignness shall not eat it. 44 But any slave of a man, a purchase of silver, if you circumcised him, then he may eat it. 45 An outsider or a hireling shall not eat it. 46 It shall be eaten in one house. You shall not bring from the house from the flesh to the outside, and you shall not break its bone. 47 All the congregation of Israel shall do it.

48 And if a sojourner is sojourning with you, and keeps the Passover to Yahweh, all his males shall be circumcised. And then he may draw near to keep it, and he will become like a native of the land. And any uncircumcised person shall not eat it. 49 One law shall be for the native and for the sojourner sojourning among you.”

50 And all of the sons of Israel did—just as Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron—so they did. 51 And so it was, in that very day, Yahweh brought the sons of Israel out from the land of Egypt by their hosts.

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