 1 The Lord 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, In the tenth of this month they shall take to them each man a lamb for a father's house, a lamb for a house. 4 If the household is too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take according to the number of the souls, each one, according to the eating of his mouth, you shall count concerning the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You shall take from the sheep or from the goats. 6 You shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month. And the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. 7 They shall take of the blood and strike on the two side posts and upon the upper door post of the houses in which they shall eat it. 8 They shall eat the flesh roasted with fire that night and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs. 9 Do not eat of it raw or boiled with water but roasted with fire, its head with its legs and with its inward parts. 10 You shall not let any of it remain until the morning. What remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire. 11 This is how you shall eat it: Be fully dressed+ with shoes on your feet and your staff in your hand. You shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord's Passover. 12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. And I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. 13 The blood shall be a sign to you upon the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you. And the plague shall not be upon you for a destruction when I strike in the land of Egypt. 14 This day shall be a memorial to you. And you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord throughout your generations. You shall keep it as a feast by a law forever. 15 You shall eat unleavened bread seven days. Even the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul will be cut off from Israel. 16 On the first day shall be a holy gathering and in the seventh day there shall be a holy gathering for you. No manner of work shall be done in them except what every man must eat, that only may be done by you. 17 You shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread. For in this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall keep this day in your generations by a law 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 there shall be no leaven found in your houses. For whoever eats what is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, among the aliens and among the natives of the land. 20 You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread. 21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, Draw out and take a lamb for yourselves according to your families and kill the Passover. 22 You shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip in the blood in the bowl, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood in the bowl. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. 23 For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians. And when He sees the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you. 24 You shall observe this for a law to you and to your sons forever. 25 When you have come to the land that the Lord will give you according as He has promised, you shall keep this service. 26 When your children say to you, What is this service to you? 27 Then you shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. So the people bowed and worshiped. 28 The children of Israel went away and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron. So they did. 29 At midnight, the Lord 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 that was in the prison. Also all the firstborn of cattle. 30 Pharaoh rose 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 away from my people, both you and the children of Israel. And go serve the Lord, as you have said. 32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go. And bless me also. 33 The Egyptians were urging the people that they might send them out of the land in a hurry. For they said, Otherwise we are all dead. 34 The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. 35 The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses. They borrowed articles of silver, and articles of gold, and clothing from the Egyptians. 36 The Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and they granted their request, and they plundered the Egyptians. 37 The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about 600,000 men on foot besides children. 38 Also a mixed multitude went with them with flocks and herds and much cattle. 39 They baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not stay, neither had they prepared any food for a journey for themselves. 40 The time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years. 41 At the end of the 430 years, even on this very day, all the armies of the Lord left the land of Egypt. 42 It is a night to be kept to the Lord for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of the Lord to be kept by all the children of Israel in their generations. 43 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the Passover. No stranger shall eat of it. 44 But every man's servant that is bought for silver, when you have circumcised him, then he shall eat of it. 45 A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it. 46 It shall be eaten in one house. You shall not carry any of the flesh 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 stays with you and desires to keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised and then let him come near and keep it. He shall be as one who is born in the land. No uncircumcised person shall eat of it. 49 There shall be one law to the native and to the visitor who stays among you. 50 So all the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron. 51 The very same day, the Lord brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
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