Chapter 12
1The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in
the land of Egypt, 2 "This month shall
stand at the head of your calendar; you shall reckon it the first month of the
year. 3 Tell the whole community of Israel: On
the tenth of this month every one of your families must procure for itself a
lamb, one apiece for each household. 4 If a
family is too small for a whole lamb, it shall join the nearest household in
procuring one and shall share in the lamb in proportion to the number of
persons who partake of it. 5 The lamb must be a
year-old male and without blemish. You may take it from either the sheep or the
goats. 6 You shall keep it until the fourteenth
day of this month, and then, with the whole assembly of Israel present, it
shall be slaughtered during the evening twilight. 7
They shall take some of its blood and apply it to the two doorposts and the
lintel of every house in which they partake of the lamb. 8 That same night they shall eat its roasted flesh
with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 9 It
shall not be eaten raw or boiled, but roasted whole, with its head and shanks
and inner organs. 10 None of it must be kept
beyond the next morning; whatever is left over in the morning shall be burned
up. 11 "This is how you are to eat it: with
your loins girt, sandals on your feet and your staff in hand, you shall eat
like those who are in flight. It is the Passover of the LORD. 12 For on this same night I will go through Egypt,
striking down every first - born of the land, both man and beast, and executing
judgment on all the gods of Egypt-I, the LORD! 13
But the blood will mark the houses where you are. Seeing the blood, I will pass
over you; thus, when I strike the land of Egypt, no destructive blow will come
upon you. 14 "This day shall be a memorial
feast for you, which all your generations shall celebrate with pilgrimage to
the LORD, as a perpetual institution.
15 For seven days you must eat
unleavened bread. From the very first day you shall have your houses clear of
all leaven. Whoever eats leavened bread from the first day to the seventh shall
be cut off from Israel. 16 On the first day you
shall hold a sacred assembly, and likewise on the seventh. On these days you
shall not do any sort of work, except to prepare the food that everyone needs. 17 "Keep, then, this custom of the unleavened
bread. Since it was on this very day that I brought your ranks out of the land
of Egypt, you must celebrate this day throughout your generations as a
perpetual institution. 18 From the evening of
the fourteenth day of the first month until the evening of the twenty-first day
of this month you shall eat unleavened bread. 19
For seven days no leaven may be found in your houses. Anyone, be he a resident
alien or a native, who eats leavened food shall be cut off from the community
of Israel. 20 Nothing leavened may you eat;
wherever you dwell you may eat only unleavened bread."
21 Moses called all the elders of
Israel and said to them, "Go and procure lambs for your families, and
slaughter them as Passover victims. 22 Then take
a bunch of hyssop, and dipping it in the blood that is in the basin, sprinkle
the lintel and the two doorposts with this blood. But none of you shall go
outdoors until morning. 23 For the LORD will go
by, striking down the Egyptians. Seeing the blood on the lintel and the two
doorposts, the LORD will pass over that door and not let the destroyer come
into your houses to strike you down. 24 "You
shall observe this as a perpetual ordinance for yourselves and your
descendants. 25 Thus, you must also observe this
rite when you have entered the land which the LORD will give you as he
promised. 26 When your children ask you, 'What
does this rite of yours mean?' 27 you shall
reply, 'This is the Passover sacrifice of the LORD, who passed over the houses
of the Israelites in Egypt; when he struck down the Egyptians, he spared our
houses.'" Then the people bowed down in worship, 28
and the Israelites went and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.
29 At midnight the LORD slew every
first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh on the throne
to the first-born of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the first-born
of the animals. 30 Pharaoh arose in the night,
he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was loud wailing
throughout Egypt, for there was not a house without its dead. 31 During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron
and said, "Leave my people at once, you and the Israelites with you! Go
and worship the LORD as you said. 32 Take your
flocks, too, and your herds, as you demanded, and be gone; and you will be
doing me a favor." 33 The Egyptians
likewise urged the people on, to hasten their departure from the land; they
thought that otherwise they would all die. 34 The
people, therefore, took their dough before it was leavened, in their kneading
bowls wrapped in their cloaks on their shoulders.
35 The Israelites did as Moses had
commanded: they asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for
clothing. 36 The LORD indeed had made the
Egyptians so well-disposed toward the people that they let them have whatever
they asked for. Thus did they despoil the Egyptians.
37 The Israelites set out from Rameses
for Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, not counting the children.
38 A crowd of mixed ancestry also went up with
them, besides their livestock, very numerous flocks and herds. 39 Since the dough they had brought out of Egypt was
not leavened, they baked it into unleavened loaves. They had been rushed out of
Egypt and had no opportunity even to prepare food for the journey. 40 The time the Israelites had stayed in Egypt was
four hundred and thirty years. 41 At the end of
four hundred and thirty years, all the hosts of the LORD left the land of Egypt
on this very date. 42 This was a night of vigil
for the LORD, as he led them out of the land of Egypt; so on this same night
all the Israelites must keep a vigil for the LORD throughout their generations.
43 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron,
"These are the regulations for the Passover. No foreigner may partake of
it. 44 However, any slave who has been bought
for money may partake of it, provided you have first circumcised him. 45 But no transient alien or hired servant may partake
of it. 46 It must be eaten in one and the same
house; you may not take any of its flesh outside the house. You shall not break
any of its bones. 47 The whole community of
Israel must keep this feast. 48 If any aliens
living among you wish to celebrate the Passover of the LORD, all the males
among them must first be circumcised, and then they may join in its observance
just like the natives. But no man who is uncircumcised may partake of it. 49 The law shall be the same for the resident alien as
for the native." 50 All the Israelites did
just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron. 51
On that same day the LORD brought the Israelites out of Egypt company by
company.
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