出埃及記 12
1 上主在埃及國訓示梅瑟和亞郎說：「
The Lord also said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:
2 你們要以本月為你們的正月，為你們算是一年的首月。
“This month will be for you the beginning of the months. It will be first in the months of the year.
3 你們應訓示以色列會眾，本月十日，他們每人照家族準備一隻羔羊，一家一隻。
Speak to the entire assembly of the sons of Israel, and say to them: On the tenth day of this month, let everyone take a lamb, by their families and houses.
4 若是小家庭，吃不了一隻，家長應和附近的鄰居按照人數共同預備，並照每人的飯量估計當吃的羔羊。
But if the number is less than may suffice to be able to consume the lamb, he shall accept his neighbor, who has been joined with his house according to the number of souls that may suffice to be able to eat the lamb.
5 羔羊應是一歲無殘疾的公羊，要由綿羊或山羊中挑選。
And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a one year old male. According to this rite, you shall also take a young goat.
6 把這羔羊留到本月十四日，在黃昏的時候，以色列全體會眾便將牠宰殺。
And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month. And the entire multitude of the sons of Israel shall immolate it toward evening.
7 各家都應取些血塗在吃羔羊的房屋的兩門框和門楣上。
And they shall take from its blood, and place it on both the door posts and the upper threshold of the houses, in which they will consume it.
8 在那一夜要吃肉；肉要用火烤了，同無酵餅及苦菜一起吃。
And that night they shall eat the flesh, roasted by fire, and unleavened bread with wild lettuce.
9 肉切不可吃生的或水煮的，只許吃火烤的。頭、腿和五臟都應吃盡。
You shall not consume anything from it raw, nor boiled in water, but only roasted by fire. You shall devour the head with its feet and entrails.
10 一點也不許留到早晨；若是早晨還有剩下的，都要用火燒掉。
Neither shall there remain anything from it until morning. If anything will have been left over, you shall burn it with fire.
11 你們應這樣吃：束著腰，腳上穿著鞋，手裏拿著棍杖，急速快吃：這是向上主守的逾越節。
Now you shall consume it in this way: You shall gird your waist, and you shall have shoes on your feet, holding staves in your hands, and you shall consume it in haste. For it is the Passover (that is, the Crossing) of the Lord.
12 這一夜我要走遍埃及全國，將埃及國一切首生，無論是人是牲畜都要殺死，對於埃及的眾神，我也要嚴加懲罰：我是上主。
And I will cross through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from man, even to cattle. And I will bring judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord.
13 這血在你們所住的房屋上，當作你們的記號：我打擊埃及國的時候，一見這血，就越過你們去，毀滅的災禍不落在你們身上。
But the blood will be for you as a sign in the buildings where you will be. And I will see the blood, and I will pass over you. And the plague will not be with you to destroy, when I strike the land of Egypt.
14 這一天將是你們的紀念日，要當作上主的節日來慶祝；你們要世世代代過這節日，作為永遠的法規。
Then you shall have this day as a memorial, and you shall celebrate it as a solemnity to the Lord, in your generations, as an everlasting devotion.
15 你們應一連七天吃無酵餅。第一天務要從你們家內將酵子除去，因為從第一天直到第七天，凡吃有酵之物的人，都應從以色列中鏟除。
For seven days, you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day there shall be no leaven in your houses. Whoever will consume anything leavened, from the first day, even until the seventh day, that soul shall perish from Israel.
16 第一天和第七天應召開聖會；這兩天一切勞工都不可作，只准你們準備每人吃的東西。
The first day shall be holy and solemn, and the seventh day shall be venerated with the same festivity. You shall do no work in these days, except that which pertains to the eating.
17 你們應守無酵節，因為這一天我領你們的軍旅出離了埃及國，所以你們要世世代代守這一天，作為永遠的法規。
And you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread. For on this same day, I will lead your army out of the land of Egypt, and you shall keep this day, in your generations, as a perpetual ritual.
18 從正月十四日晚起，到二十一日晚為止，你們應吃無酵餅。
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, toward evening, you shall consume the unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the same month, toward evening.
19 七天內，在你們家內不准有酵子，因為凡吃了有酵之物的，不論他是外方人或是本地人，都應從以色列會眾內鏟除。
For seven days, there shall not be found leaven in your houses. Whoever will eat leaven, his soul will perish from the assembly of Israel, as much with the newcomers as with the natives of the land.
20 任何有酵之物，`不准你們吃；在你們所居住之處，都應吃無酵餅。」逾越節的建立
You shall not consume any leaven. In all your dwelling places, you shall eat unleavened bread.”
21 梅瑟召集了以色列眾長老來，向他們說：「你去為你們的家屬準備一隻羊，宰殺作逾越節羔羊。
Then Moses called all the elders of the sons of Israel, and he said to them: “Go, taking an animal by your families, and sacrifice the Passover.
22 拿一束牛膝草蘸在盆中血裏，用盆中的血，塗在門楣和兩旁的門框上；你們中誰也不准離開自己的房門，直到早晨。
And dip a little bundle of hyssop in the blood which is at the entrance, and sprinkle the upper threshold with it, and both of the door posts. Let none of you go out of the door of his house until morning.
23 因為上主要經過，擊殺埃及人；他一見門楣和兩門框上有血，就越過門，不容毀滅者進你們的房屋。
For the Lord will cross through, striking the Egyptians. And when he will see the blood on the upper threshold, and on both the door posts, he will pass over the door of the house and not permit the Striker to enter into your houses or to do harm.
24 你們應遵守這規定，作為你們子孫的永遠法規。
You shall keep this word as a law for you and for your sons, forever.
25 日後你們到了上主許給你們的地方，應守這禮。
And when you have entered into the land that the Lord will give to you, just as he has promised, you shall observe these ceremonies.
26 將來你們的子孫若問你們這禮有什麼意思，
And when your sons will say to you, ‘What is the meaning of this religious observance?’
27 你們應回答說：這是獻於上主的逾越節祭：當上主擊殺埃及人的時候，越過了在埃及的以色列子民的房屋，救了我們各家。」於是百姓都屈膝朝拜。
You shall say to them: ‘It is the victim of the crossing of the Lord, when he passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt, striking the Egyptians, and freeing our houses.’” And the people, bowing down, worshipped.
28 以色列子民就去奉行了。上主怎樣吩咐了梅瑟和亞郎，他們就怎樣作了。第十災、殺長子
And the sons of Israel, departing, did just as the Lord had instructed Moses and Aaron.
29 那天半夜，上主擊殺了埃及所有的長子，從坐寶座的法朗的長子，直到坐監者的長子，以及一切頭胎牲畜。
Then it happened, in the middle of the night: the Lord struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sits on his throne, even to the firstborn of the captive woman who was in prison, and all the firstborn of the cattle.
30 在這一夜，法朗，他所有的臣僕和全埃及人都起來；在埃及發生了大哀號，因為沒有一家不死人的。
And Pharaoh rose up in the night, and all his servants, and all of Egypt. And there arose a great outcry in Egypt. For there was not a house in which no one lay dead.
31 夜間法朗召梅瑟和亞郎來說：「你們和以色列子民都起身離開我的百姓走罷! 照你們所要求的，去崇拜上主罷!
And Pharaoh, calling Moses and Aaron in the night, said: “Rise up and go forth from among my people, you and the sons of Israel. Go, sacrifice to the Lord, just as you say.
32 也照你們所要求的，帶著你的羊群牛群去罷! 也為我求祝福。」
Your sheep and herds take along with you, as you requested, and as you go away, bless me.”
33 埃及人催迫這百分姓趕快離開此地，因為他們說：「我們快要死盡! 」
And the Egyptians urged the people to go away from the land quickly, saying, “We will all die.”
34 百姓便把沒有發酵的麵團和麵盆包在外衣內，背在肩上。
Therefore, the people took bread dough before it was leavened. And tying it in their cloaks, they placed it on their shoulders.
35 以色列子民也照梅瑟所吩咐的作了，向埃及人要求金銀之物和衣服。
And the sons of Israel did just as Moses had instructed. And they petitioned the Egyptians for vessels of silver and of gold, and very many garments.
36 上主使百姓在埃及人眼中蒙恩，給了他們所要求的；他們這樣劫奪了埃及人。以色列離埃及
Then the Lord granted favor to the people in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they bestowed on them. And they despoiled the Egyptians.
37 以色列人民從辣默色斯起程向穌苛特進發。步行的男子約二十萬，家屬不算在內。
And the sons of Israel set out from Rameses to Soccoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides little ones.
38 同他們一起走的，還有很多外族人，也帶著自己的羊群、牛群和大批的牲畜。
But also an innumerable mix of common people ascended with them, sheep and herds and animals of diverse kinds, exceedingly many.
39 他們把從埃及帶出來的未發酵的面團烤成無酵餅，因為他們急迫離開埃及，不能耽擱，來不及準備行糧。
And they baked the bread, which a little while ago they had taken out of Egypt as dough. And they made unleavened bread baked under ashes. For it was not able to be leavened, with the Egyptians compelling them to leave and not permitting them to cause any delay. Neither did they have occasion to prepare any meat.
40 以色列子民居留埃及共有四百三十年。
Now the habitation of the sons of Israel, while they remained in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
41 四百三十年屆滿的那一天，上主的軍旅離開了埃及.。
Having been completed, on the same day all the army of the Lord departed from the land of Egypt.
42 這一夜是上主領他們出離埃及所守的一夜，這一夜也是以色列子民世世代代當守的一夜。參與逾越節宴的法律
This night is a worthy observance of the Lord, when he led them out of the land of Egypt. This all the sons of Israel must observe in their generations.
43 上主向梅瑟和亞郎說：「有關逾越節祭餐的法規如下：任何外方人不准參加這祭餐。
And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron: “This is the religious observance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat from it.
44 凡用錢買來的奴隸，受過割損禮後，方可參加。
But every bought servant shall be circumcised, and so he may eat from it.
45 旅客和傭工不得參加。
The newcomer and the hired hand shall not eat from it.
46 應在同一間房屋內吃盡，不可將肉塊帶到屋外，也不可將骨頭折斷。
In one house it shall be eaten; you shall not carry its flesh outside, nor shall you break its bone.
47 以色列全會眾都應舉行此祭餐。
The entire assembly of the sons of Israel shall do this.
48 若有同你在一起居住的外方人，願向上主舉行逾越節祭餐，他家所有的男子應受割損禮，然後才准前來參加，如本地人一樣；但未受割損禮的人決不許參加。
And if any sojourner will be willing to cross over into your settlement, and to keep the Passover of the Lord, all his males shall first be circumcised, and then he shall celebrate the rite. And he shall be just like a native of the land. But if any man is not circumcised, he shall not eat from it.
49 本地人和住在你們中間的外方人同屬一例。」
The law shall be the same for the native born and for the settler who sojourns with you.”
50 全以色列子民就都奉行。上主怎樣吩咐了梅瑟和亞郎，他們就怎樣作了。
And all the sons of Israel did just as the Lord had instructed Moses and Aaron.
51 就在這一天，上主將以色列子民一隊一隊地領出了埃及。
And on the same day, the Lord led the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their companies.
