[1] The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, [2] "This month
shall be for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of
the year for you. [3] Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth
day of this month they shall take every man a lamb according to their
fathers' houses, a lamb for a household; [4] and if the household is too
small for a lamb, then a man and his neighbor next to his house shall take
according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you
shall make your count for the lamb. [5] Your lamb shall be without blemish,
a male a year old; you shall take it from the sheep or from the goats; [6]
and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the
whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs in the
evening. [7] Then they shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two
doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat them. [8] They
shall eat the flesh that night, roasted; with unleavened bread and bitter
herbs they shall eat it. [9] Do not eat any of it raw or boiled with water,
but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. [10] And you shall
let none of it remain until the morning, anything that remains until the
morning you shall burn. [11] In this manner you shall eat it: your loins
girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you
shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD's passover. [12] For I will pass
through the land of Egypt that night, and I will smite all the first-born
in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I
will execute judgments: I am the LORD. [13] The blood shall be a sign for
you, upon the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass
over you, and no plague shall fall upon you to destroy you, when I smite
the land of Egypt. [14] "This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you
shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you shall
observe it as an ordinance for ever. [15] Seven days you shall eat
unleavened bread; on the first day you shall put away leaven out of your
houses, for if any one eats what is leavened, from the first day until the
seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. [16] On the first
day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly;
no work shall be done on those days; but what every one must eat, that only
may be prepared by you. [17] And you shall observe the feast of unleavened
bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt:
therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as an
ordinance for ever. [18] In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the
month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, and so until the
twenty-first day of the month at evening. [19] For seven days no leaven
shall be found in your houses; for if any one eats what is leavened, that
person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a
sojourner or a native of the land. [20] You shall eat nothing leavened; in
all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread." [21] Then Moses called
all the elders of Israel, and said to them, "Select lambs for yourselves
according to your families, and kill the passover lamb. [22] Take a bunch
of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and touch the
lintel and the two doorposts with the blood which is in the basin; and none
of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. [23] For
the LORD will pass through to slay the Egyptians; and when he sees the
blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the
door, and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to slay you.
[24] You shall observe this rite as an ordinance for you and for your sons
for ever. [25] And when you come to the land which the LORD will give you,
as he has promised, you shall keep this service. [26] And when your
children say to you, `What do you mean by this service?' [27] you shall
say, `It is the sacrifice of the LORD's passover, for he passed over the
houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he slew the Egyptians but
spared our houses.'" And the people bowed their heads and worshiped. [28]
Then the people of Israel went and did so; as the LORD had commanded Moses
and Aaron, so they did. [29] At midnight the LORD smote all the first-born
in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sat on his throne
to the first-born of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the
first-born of the 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 one was not dead. [31] And he
summoned Moses and Aaron by night, and said, "Rise up, go forth from among
my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as
you have said. [32] Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and
be gone; and bless me also!" [33] And the Egyptians were urgent with the
people, to send them out of the land in haste; for they said, "We are all
dead men." [34] So the people took their dough before it was leavened,
their kneading bowls being bound up in their mantles on their shoulders.
[35] The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had
asked of the Egyptians jewelry of silver and of gold, and clothing; [36]
and the LORD had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so
that they let them have what they asked. Thus they despoiled the Egyptians.
[37] And the people of Israel journeyed from Ram'eses to Succoth, about six
hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. [38] A mixed
multitude also went up with them, and very many cattle, both flocks and
herds. [39] And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they had
brought 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
provisions. [40] The time that the people of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four
hundred and thirty years. [41] And at the end of four hundred and thirty
years, on that very day, all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land
of Egypt. [42] It was a night of watching by the LORD, to bring them out of
the land of Egypt; so this same night is a night of watching kept to the
LORD by all the people of Israel throughout their generations. [43] And the
LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the passover: no
foreigner shall eat of it; [44] but every slave that is bought for money
may eat of it after you have circumcised him. [45] No sojourner or hired
servant may eat of it. [46] In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not
carry forth any of the flesh outside the house; and you shall not break a
bone of it. [47] All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. [48] And
when a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the passover to the
LORD, let all his males be circumcised, then he may come near and keep it;
he shall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat
of it. [49] There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who
sojourns among you." [50] Thus did all the people of Israel; as the LORD
commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. [51] And on that very day the LORD
brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.

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