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Exodus 12:40 (NIV)

Now the length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt was 430 years.

If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat.

Exodus 12:41 (NIV)

At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the Lord ’s divisions left Egypt.

Exodus 12:42 (NIV)

Because the Lord kept vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the Lord for the generations to come.

Exodus 12:43 (NIV)

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “These are the regulations for the Passover meal: “No foreigner may eat it.

Exodus 12:44 (NIV)

Any slave you have bought may eat it after you have circumcised him,

Exodus 12:45 (NIV)

but a temporary resident or a hired worker may not eat it.

Exodus 12:46 (NIV)

“It must be eaten inside the house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones.

Exodus 12:47 (NIV)

The whole community of Israel must celebrate it.

Exodus 12:48 (NIV)

“A foreigner residing among you who wants to celebrate the Lord ’s Passover must have all the males in his household circumcised; then he may take part like one born in the land. No uncircumcised male may eat it.

Exodus 12:49 (NIV)

The same law applies both to the native-born and to the foreigner residing among you.”

Exodus 12:1 (NIV)

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt,

Exodus 12:2 (NIV)

“This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.

Exodus 12:3 (NIV)

Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one for each household.

Exodus 12:5 (NIV)

The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats.

Exodus 12:6 (NIV)

Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.

Exodus 12:7 (NIV)

Then 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.

Exodus 12:8 (NIV)

That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast.

Exodus 12:9 (NIV)

Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs.

Exodus 12:10 (NIV)

Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it.

Exodus 12:11 (NIV)

This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord ’s Passover.

Exodus 12:12 (NIV)

“On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord .

Exodus 12:13 (NIV)

The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.

Exodus 12:14 (NIV)

“This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord —a lasting ordinance.

Exodus 12:15 (NIV)

For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.