Exodus 12

¹And Yhwh said to Moses and to Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying:

²This month shall be for you all the beginning of months; it shall be the first of the months of the year for you all.

³Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: On the tenth of this month each man shall take a lamb for himself, a lamb for each father's household.

⁴But if the household is too few for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take one according to the count of persons; according to each man's eating you shall compute for the lamb.

⁵Your animal shall be an unblemished male, one year old. You all shall take it from the lambs or from the goats.

⁶And it shall be kept by you all until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight.

⁷And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.

⁸And they shall eat the flesh on that same night, roasted over fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

⁹Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but rather roasted with fire — its head with its legs and with its entrails.

¹⁰And you shall not leave any of it until morning; anything that remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire.

¹¹And thus 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 Passover to Yhwh.

¹²And I will pass through the land of Egypt on this night, and I will strike every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments — I am Yhwh.

¹³And the blood will be a sign for you all upon the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you all, and no plague will fall on you all to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

¹⁴And this day shall be a memorial for you all, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to Yhwh; throughout your generations, as an everlasting statute, you shall celebrate it.

¹⁵Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; indeed, on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread, that person shall be cut off from Israel — from the first day until the seventh day.

¹⁶On the first day there shall be a holy assembly for you all, and on the seventh day a holy assembly for you all. No work shall be done on them, except what every person must eat — that alone may be prepared for you all.

¹⁷And you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out from the land of Egypt; you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an everlasting statute.

¹⁸In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month, in the evening.

¹⁹For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, for whoever 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.

²⁰You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.

²¹And Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them: Draw out and take for yourselves a flock animal, for each of your families.

²²And you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out from the door of his house until morning.

²³And Yhwh will pass through to strike Egypt, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, Yhwh will pass over the entrance, and he will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike.

²⁴And you shall keep this word as a statute for you and for your sons forever.

²⁵And it will be, when you come to the land that Yhwh will give you all, as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.

²⁶And it will be, when your children say to you all: What is this service of you all?

²⁷Then you shall say: It is the Passover sacrifice to Yhwh, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when he struck Egypt and spared our houses. And the people bowed and prostrated themselves.

²⁸And the children of Israel went and did just as Yhwh had commanded Moses and Aaron; so they did.

²⁹And it came to pass at midnight that Yhwh struck every 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 every firstborn of the animals.

³⁰And Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all Egypt, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house where there was not one dead.

³¹And he called to Moses and to Aaron by night and said: Rise up, come out from the midst of my people, both you and also the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have spoken.

³²Take also your flocks and also your cattle, as you have said, and go, and bless me also.

³³And the Egyptians pressed hard upon the people to hasten to send them from the land, for they said, 'We are all dead men.'

³⁴And the people took up their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-bowls bound up in their garments upon their shoulders.

³⁵And the sons of Israel did according to the word of Moses, and they asked of the Egyptians articles of silver and articles of gold and garments.

³⁶And the LORD had given the people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians, and they let them have what they asked; and they plundered Egypt.

³⁷And the sons of Israel set out from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, apart from the little ones.

³⁸And a great mixed multitude also went up with them, and flocks and cattle, a very great quantity of livestock.

³⁹And they baked the dough that they had brought out of Egypt into cakes of unleavened bread, for it had not leavened, for they had been driven out of Egypt and could not delay; and also they had made no provision for themselves.

⁴⁰Now the sojourn of the sons of Israel who dwelt in Egypt was thirty years and four hundred years.

⁴¹And it came to pass at the end of four hundred and thirty years, even on that very day, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.

⁴²It is a night of vigil for the LORD, to bring them out from the land of Egypt; this is that very night for the LORD, a vigil for all the children of Israel throughout their generations.

⁴³And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron: This is the statute of the Passover — no foreigner shall eat of it.

⁴⁴But every slave of a man, purchased with silver — when you have circumcised him, then he may eat of it.

⁴⁵A sojourner and a hired worker shall not eat of it.

⁴⁶In one house it shall be eaten; you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, and you shall not break a bone of it.

⁴⁷All the congregation of Israel shall do it.

⁴⁸And when a sojourner sojourns with you and wishes to keep the Passover to the LORD, let every male of his be circumcised, and then he may draw near to keep it, and he shall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.

⁴⁹One instruction shall there be for the native-born and for the sojourner who sojourns in your midst.

⁵⁰And all the sons of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron — so they did.

⁵¹And it came to pass on that very day that Yhwh brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their companies.