[1] And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, [2] Let this
month be to you the first of months, the first month of the year. [3] Say
to all the children of Israel when they are come together, In the tenth day
of this month every man is to take a lamb, by the number of their fathers'
families, a lamb for every family: [4] And if the lamb is more than enough
for the family, let that family and its nearest neighbour have a lamb
between them, taking into account the number of persons and how much food
is needed for every man. [5] Let your lamb be without a mark, a male in its
first year: you may take it from among the sheep or the goats: [6] Keep it
till the fourteenth day of the same month, when everyone who is of the
children of Israel is to put it to death between sundown and dark. [7] Then
take some of the blood and put it on the two sides of the door and over the
door of the house where the meal is to be taken. [8] And let your food that
night be the flesh of the lamb, cooked with fire in the oven, together with
unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants. [9] Do not take it uncooked or
cooked with boiling water, but let it be cooked in the oven; its head with
its legs and its inside parts. [10] Do not keep any of it till the morning;
anything which is not used is to be burned with fire. [11] And take your
meal dressed as if for a journey, with your shoes on your feet and your
sticks in your hands: take it quickly: it is the Lord's Passover. [12] For
on that night I will go through the land of Egypt, sending death on every
first male child, of man and of beast, and judging all the gods of Egypt: I
am the Lord. [13] And the blood will be a sign on the houses where you are:
when I see the blood I will go over you, and no evil will come on you for
your destruction, when my hand is on the land of Egypt. [14] And this day
is to be kept in your memories: you are to keep it as a feast to the Lord
through all your generations, as an order for ever. [15] For seven days let
your food be unleavened bread; from the first day no leaven is to be seen
in your houses: whoever takes bread with leaven in it, from the first till
the seventh day, will be cut off from Israel. [16] And on the first day
there is to be a holy meeting and on the seventh day a holy meeting; no
sort of work may be done on those days but only to make ready what is
necessary for everyone's food. [17] So keep the feast of unleavened bread;
for on this very day I have taken your armies out of the land of Egypt:
this day, then, is to be kept through all your generations by an order for
ever. [18] In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day, let
your food be unleavened bread till the evening of the twenty-first day of
the month. [19] For seven days no leaven is to be seen in your houses: for
whoever takes bread which is leavened will be cut off from the people of
Israel, if he is from another country or if he is an Israelite by birth.
[20] Take nothing which has leaven in it; wherever you are living let your
food be unleavened cakes. [21] Then Moses sent for the chiefs of Israel,
and said to them, See that lambs are marked out for yourselves and your
families, and let the Passover lamb be put to death. [22] And take some
hyssop and put it in the blood in the basin, touching the two sides and the
top of the doorway with the blood from the basin; and let not one of you go
out of his house till the morning. [23] For the Lord will go through the
land, sending death on the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the two
sides and the top of the door, the Lord will go over your door and will not
let death come in for your destruction. [24] And you are to keep this as an
order to you and to your sons for ever. [25] And when you come into the
land which the Lord will make yours, as he gave his word, you are to keep
this act of worship. [26] And when your children say to you, What is the
reason of this act of worship? [27] Then you will say, This is the offering
of the Lord's Passover; for he went over the houses of the children of
Israel in Egypt, when he sent death on the Egyptians, and kept our families
safe. And the people gave worship with bent heads. [28] And the children of
Israel went and did so; as the Lord had given orders to Moses and Aaron, so
they did. [29] And in the middle of the night the Lord sent death on every
first male child in the land of Egypt, from the child of Pharaoh on his
seat of power to the child of the prisoner in the prison; and the first
births of all the cattle. [30] Then Pharaoh got up in the night, he and all
his servants and all the Egyptians; and a great cry went up from Egypt; for
there was not a house where someone was not dead. [31] And he sent for
Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Get up and go out from among my people,
you and the children of Israel; go and give worship to the Lord as you have
said. [32] And take your flocks and your herds as you have said, and be
gone; and give me your blessing. [33] And the Egyptians were forcing the
people on, to get them out of the land quickly; for they said, We are all
dead men. [34] And the people took their bread-paste before it was
leavened, putting their basins in their clothing on their backs. [35] And
the children of Israel had done as Moses had said; and they got from the
Egyptians ornaments of silver and of gold, and clothing: [36] And the Lord
had given the people grace in the eyes of the Egyptians so that they gave
them whatever was requested. So they took away all their goods from the
Egyptians. [37] And the children of Israel made the journey from Rameses to
Succoth; there were about six hundred thousand men on foot, as well as
children. [38] And a mixed band of people went with them; and flocks and
herds in great numbers. [39] And they made unleavened cakes from the paste
which they had taken out of Egypt; it was not leavened, for they had been
sent out of Egypt so quickly, that they had no time to make any food ready.
[40] Now the children of Israel had been living in Egypt for four hundred
and thirty years. [41] And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, to
the very day, all the armies of the Lord went out of the land of Egypt.
[42] It is a watch-night before the Lord who took them out of the land of
Egypt: this same night is a watch-night to the Lord for all the children of
Israel, through all their generations. [43] And the Lord said to Moses and
Aaron, This is the law of the Passover: no man who is not an Israelite is
to take of it: [44] But every man's servant, whom he has got for money, may
take of it, when he has had circumcision. [45] A man from a strange country
living among you, and a servant working for payment, may not take part in
it. [46] It is to be taken in one house; not a bit of the flesh is to be
taken out of the house, and no bone of it may be broken. [47] All Israel is
to keep the feast. [48] And if a man from another country is living with
you, and has a desire to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all the males
of his family undergo circumcision, and then let him come near and keep it;
for he will then be as one of your people; but no one without circumcision
may keep it. [49] The law is the same for him who is an Israelite by birth
and for the man from a strange country who is living with you. [50] So the
children of Israel did as the Lord gave orders to Moses and Aaron. [51] And
on that very day the Lord took the children of Israel out of the land of
Egypt by their armies.

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