[1] Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, [2] "This
month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month
of the year to you. [3] Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying,
`On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb,
according to their fathers` houses, a lamb for a household; [4] and if the
household be too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his
house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to
everyone 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 the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel
shall kill it at evening. [7] They shall take same of the blood, and put it
on the two side-posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall
eat it. [8] They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and
unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs. [9] Don`t eat it
raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head,
its legs and its inner parts. [10] You shall let nothing of it remain until
the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn
with fire. [11] This is how you shall eat it: with your loins girded, your
shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in
haste: it is Yahweh`s Passover. [12] For I will go through the land of
Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of
Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute
judgments: I am Yahweh. [13] The blood shall be to you for a token on the
houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and
there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of
Egypt. [14] This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it
a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by
an ordinance forever. [15] Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; even
the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats
leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be
cut off from Israel. [16] In the first day there shall be to you a holy
convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work
shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may
be done by you. [17] You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for
in this same day have I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt:
therefore shall you observe this day throughout your generations by an
ordinance forever. [18] In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the
month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first
day of the month at evening. [19] Seven days shall there be no yeast found
in your houses, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be
cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or one
who is born in the land. [20] You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your
habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.`" [21] Then Moses called for
all the elders of Israel, and said to them, "Draw out, and take lambs
according to your families, and kill the Passover. [22] You shall take a
bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike
the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that is in the basin; and
none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. [23]
For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the
blood on the lintel, and on the two side-posts, Yahweh will pass over the
door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike
you. [24] You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your
sons forever. [25] It shall happen when you have come to the land which
Yahweh will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall keep
this service. [26] It will happen, when your children ask you, `What do you
mean by this service?` [27] that you shall say, `It is the sacrifice of
Yahweh`s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in
Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.`"     The
people bowed their heads and worshipped. [28] The children of Israel went
and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. [29] It
happened at midnight, that Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of
Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn
of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
[30] 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 there was not one dead. [31] He called for Moses and Aaron by night,
and said, "Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children
of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said! [32] Take both your
flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!"
[33] 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] The people took
their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up
in their clothes on their shoulders. [35] The children of Israel did
according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of
silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing. [36] Yahweh gave the people favor
in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked.
They despoiled the Egyptians. [37] The children of Israel journeyed from
Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men,
besides children. [38] A mixed multitude went up also with them, with
flocks, herds, and even very much cattle. [39] They baked unleavened cakes
of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt; for it wasn`t leavened,
because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn`t wait, neither had they
prepared for themselves any food. [40] Now the time that the children of
Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years. [41] It happened at
the end of four hundred thirty years, even the same day it happened, that
all the hosts of Yahweh went out from the land of Egypt. [42] It is a night
to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt.
This is that night of Yahweh, to be much observed of all the children of
Israel throughout their generations. [43] Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron,
"This is the ordinance of the Passover. There shall no foreigner eat of it,
[44] but every man`s servant who is bought for money, when you have
circumcised him, then shall he eat of it. [45] A sojourner and a hired
servant shall not eat of it. [46] In one house shall it be eaten; you shall
not carry forth anything of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither
shall you break a bone of it. [47] All the congregation of Israel shall
keep it. [48] When a stranger shall sojourn with you, and will keep the
Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come
near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: but no
uncircumcised person shall eat of it. [49] One law shall be to him who is
born at home, and to the stranger who sojourns among you." [50] Thus did
all the children of Israel. As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so they
did. [51] It happened the same day, that Yahweh brought the children of
Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.

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