Exodus 12
12
The First Passover Sacrifice
1The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in Egypt. 2He said, “From now on, this month will be your first month. Each of your years will begin with it. 3Speak to the whole community of Israel. Tell them that on the tenth day of this month each man must get a lamb from his flock. A lamb should be chosen for each family and home. 4Suppose there are not enough people in your family to eat a whole lamb. Then you must share some of it with your nearest neighbor. You must add up the total number of people there are. You must decide how much lamb is needed for each person. 5The animals you choose must be males that are a year old. They must not have any flaws. You may choose either sheep or goats. 6Take care of them until the 14th day of the month. Then the whole community of Israel must kill them when the sun goes down. 7Take some of the blood. Put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where you eat the lambs. 8That same night eat the meat cooked over a fire. Also eat bitter plants. And eat bread made without yeast. 9Do not eat the meat when it is raw. Don’t boil it in water. Instead, cook it over a fire. Cook the head, legs and inside parts. 10Do not leave any of it until morning. If some is left over until morning, burn it up. 11Eat the meat while your coat is tucked into your belt. Put your sandals on your feet. Take your walking stick in your hand. Eat the food quickly. It is the Lord’s Passover.
12“That same night I will pass through Egypt. I will strike down all those born first among the people and animals. And I will judge all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. 13The blood on your houses will be a sign for you. When I see the blood, I will pass over you. No deadly plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.
14“Always remember this day. You and your children after you must celebrate this day as a feast to honor the Lord. You must do this for all time to come. It is a law that will last forever. 15For seven days eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your homes. For the next seven days, anyone who eats anything with yeast in it must be separated from Israel. 16On the first and seventh days, come together for a sacred assembly. Do not work at all on these days. The only thing you are allowed to do is prepare food for everyone to eat.
17“Celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread. I brought you out of Egypt on this very day like an army on the march. It is a law that will last for all time to come. 18In the first month eat bread made without yeast. Eat it from the evening of the 14th day until the evening of the 21st day. 19For seven days do not let any yeast be found in your homes. Anyone who eats anything with yeast in it must be separated from the community of Israel. That applies to outsiders and Israelites alike. 20Do not eat anything made with yeast. No matter where you live, eat bread made without yeast.”
21Then Moses sent for all the elders of Israel. He said to them, “Go at once. Choose the animals for your families. Each family must kill a Passover lamb. 22Get a branch of a hyssop plant. Dip it into the blood in the bowl. Put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you can go out of the door of your house until morning. 23The Lord will go through the land to strike down the Egyptians. He’ll see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. He will pass over that house. He won’t let the destroying angel enter your homes to strike you down.
24“Obey all these directions. It’s a law for you and your children after you for all time to come. 25The Lord will give you the land, just as he promised. When you enter it, keep this holy day. 26Your children will ask you, ‘What does this holy day mean to you?’ 27Tell them, ‘It’s the Passover sacrifice to honor the Lord. He passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt. He spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’ ” Then the Israelites bowed down and worshiped. 28They did just what the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.
29At midnight the Lord struck down every oldest son in Egypt. He killed the oldest son of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne. He killed all the oldest sons of prisoners. He also killed all the male animals born first to their mothers among the livestock. 30Pharaoh and all his officials got up during the night. So did all the Egyptians. There was loud crying in Egypt because someone had died in every home.
The Exodus
31During the night, Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron. He said to them, “Get out of here! You and the Israelites, leave my people! Go. Worship the Lord, just as you have asked. 32Go. Take your flocks and herds, just as you have said. And also give me your blessing.”
33The Egyptians begged the people of Israel to hurry up and leave the country. “If you don’t,” they said, “we’ll all die!” 34So the people took their dough before the yeast was added to it. They carried it on their shoulders in bowls for kneading bread. The bowls were wrapped in clothes. 35They did just as Moses had directed them. They asked the Egyptians for things made out of silver and gold. They also asked them for clothes. 36The Lord had caused the Egyptians to treat the Israelites in a kind way. So the Egyptians gave them what they asked for. The Israelites took many expensive things that belonged to the Egyptians.
37The Israelites traveled from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men old enough to go into battle. The women and children went with them. 38So did many other people. The Israelites also took large flocks and herds with them. 39The Israelites brought dough from Egypt. With it they baked loaves of bread without yeast. The dough didn’t have any yeast in it. That’s because the people had been driven out of Egypt before they had time to prepare their food.
40The Israelites lived in Egypt for 430 years. 41Then all the Lord’s people marched out of Egypt like an army. That happened at the end of the 430 years, to the exact day. 42The Lord kept watch that night to bring them out of Egypt. So on that same night every year all the Israelites must keep watch. They must do it to honor the Lord for all time to come.
Rules for the Passover
43The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “Here are the rules for the Passover meal.
“No one from another country is allowed to eat it. 44Any slave you have bought is allowed to eat it after you have circumcised him. 45But a hired worker or someone who lives with you for a short time is not allowed to eat it.
46“It must be eaten inside the house. Do not take any of the meat outside. Do not break any of the bones. 47The whole community of Israel must celebrate the Passover.
48“Suppose an outsider living among you wants to celebrate the Lord’s Passover. Then all the males in that home must be circumcised. After that, the person can take part, just like an Israelite. Only circumcised males may eat it. 49The same law applies to Israelites and to outsiders living among you.”
50All the people of Israel did just what the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron. 51On that day the Lord brought the Israelites out of Egypt like an army on the march.
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Exodus 12
12
Instructions for the Feast of Passover
1And Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2“This month will be the beginning of months; it will be for you the first of the months of the year. 3Speak to all the community of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month, they will each take for themselves a lamb for the family,#Literally “a lamb/kid for the house of fathers.” The word translated “lamb” refers to a small livestock animal and could be either a young sheep or a young goat a lamb for the household. 4And if the household is too small for a lamb, he and the neighbor nearest to his house will take one according to the number of persons;#Or “the number of selves” you will count out portions of the lamb according to how much each one can eat.#Literally “a man for the mouth of his eating” 5The lamb for you must be a male, without defect, in its first year; you will take it from the sheep or from the goats.
6“You will keep it#Literally “It will be for you for observation” until the fourteenth day of this month, and all the assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter it at twilight.#Literally “between the evenings” 7And they will take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel on the houses in which they eat it. 8And they will eat the meat on this night; they will eat it fire-roasted and with unleavened bread on bitter herbs.#Literally “bitter things” 9You must not eat any of it raw or boiled, boiled in the water, but rather roasted with fire, its head with its legs and with its inner parts. 10And you must not leave any of it until morning; anything left from it until morning you must burn in the fire. 11And this is how you will eat it—with your waists fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and you will eat it in haste. It is Yahweh’s Passover.
12“And I will go through the land of Egypt during this night, and I will strike all of the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from human to animal, and I will do punishments among all of the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh. 13And the blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and I will see the blood, and I will pass over you, and there will not be a destructive plague among you when I strike the land of Egypt.
14“And this day will become a memorial for you, and you will celebrate it as a religious feast for Yahweh throughout your generations; you will celebrate it as a lasting statute. 15You will eat unleavened bread for seven days. Surely on the first day you shall remove yeast from your houses, because anyone who eats food with yeast from the first day until the seventh day—that person will be cut off from Israel. 16It will be for you on the first day a holy assembly#Or “summons,” “convocation” and on the seventh day a holy assembly;#Or “summons,” “convocation” no work will be done on them; only what is eaten by every person, it alone will be prepared for you.
17“And you will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because on this very day I brought out your divisions from the land of Egypt, and you will keep this day for your generations as a lasting statute. 18On the first day, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you will eat unleavened bread until the evening of the twenty-first day of the month. 19For seven days yeast must not be found in your houses, because anyone eating food with yeast#Literally “anyone eating yeasted food, that person” will be cut off from the community of Israel—whether an alien or a native of the land. 20You will eat no food with yeast; in all of your dwellings you will eat unleavened bread.”
21And Moses called all the elders of Israel, and he said to them, “Select and take for yourselves sheep for your clans and slaughter the Passover sacrifice. 22And take a bunch of hyssop and dip it into the blood that is in the basin and apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts. And you will not go out, anyone from the doorway of his house, until morning. 23And Yahweh will go through to strike Egypt, and he will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and Yahweh will pass over the doorway and will not allow the destroyer to come to your houses to strike you.
24“And you will keep this event as a rule for you and for your children forever.#Or “until eternity” 25And#Literally “and it will be” when you come into the land that Yahweh will give to you, as he said, you will keep this religious custom.#Literally “service” or “work” 26And#Literally “and it will be” when your children say to you, ‘What is this religious custom#Literally “service” or “work” for you?’#Or “What does this service mean to you?” 27you will say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice for Yahweh, who passed over the houses of the Israelites#Literally “sons/children of Israel” in Egypt when he struck Egypt; and he delivered our houses.’ ” And the people knelt down and they worshiped. 28And the Israelites#Literally “sons/children of Israel” went, and they did as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron; so they did.
Death of Firstborn and Deliverance from Egypt
29And#Literally “and it was” in the middle of the night, Yahweh struck all of 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 prison house and every firstborn of an animal. 30And Pharaoh got up at night, he and all his servants and all Egypt, and a great cry of distress was in Egypt because there was not a house where there was no one dead. 31And he called Moses and Aaron at night, and he said, “Get up, go out from the midst of my people, both you as well as the Israelites,#Literally “sons/children of Israel” and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said. 32Take both your sheep and goats as well as your cattle, and go, and bless also me.”
33And the Egyptians urged the people in order to hurry their release#Or “to hasten to release them” from the land, because they said, “All of us will die!”#Or “We all are dead!” 34And the people lifted up their dough before it had yeast; their kneading troughs were wrapped up in their cloaks on their shoulder. 35And the Israelites#Literally “sons/children of Israel” did according to the word of Moses, and they asked from the Egyptians for objects of silver and objects of gold and for clothing. 36And Yahweh gave the people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians, and they granted their requests, and they plundered the Egyptians.
37And the Israelites#Literally “sons/children of Israel” set out from Rameses to Succoth; the men were about six hundred thousand on foot,#Or “footmen,” “infantrymen.” The word probably has military connotations, as when it is used elsewhere in the numbering of soldiers (compare 2 Sam 10:6; 1 Kgs 20:29; 2 Kgs 13:7) besides dependents. 38And also a mixed multitude#Literally “a large mixture” (compare Jer 25:20; Ezek 30:5) went up with them and sheep and goats and cattle, very numerous livestock. 39And they baked the dough that they had brought out from Egypt as cakes, unleavened bread, because it had no yeast when they were driven out from Egypt, and they were not able to delay, and also they had not made provisions for themselves.
40And the period of dwelling of the Israelites#Literally “sons/children of Israel” that they dwelled in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. 41And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, on this exact day, all of Yahweh’s divisions went out from the land of Egypt. 42It is a night of vigils#Or “observances” belonging to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt; it is this night belonging to Yahweh with vigils for all of the Israelites#Literally “sons/children of Israel” throughout their generations.
43And Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner may eat it. 44But any slave of a man, an acquisition by money, and you have circumcised him, then he may eat it. 45A temporary resident and a hired worker may not eat it. 46It will be eaten in one house; you will not bring part of the meat out from the house to the outside; and you will not break a bone of it. 47All of the community of Israel will prepare it. 48And when an alien dwells with you and he wants to prepare the Passover for Yahweh, every male belonging to him must be circumcised, and then he may come near to prepare it, and he will be as the native of the land, but any uncircumcised man may not eat it. 49One law will be for the native and for the alien who is dwelling in your midst.”
50And all the Israelites#Literally “sons/children of Israel” did as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron; so they did. 51And it was on exactly this day Yahweh brought the Israelites#Literally “sons/children of Israel” out from the land of Egypt by their divisions.
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