Exodus 12
1 And the LORD spoke unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying:
上主在埃及國訓示梅瑟和亞郎說：「
2 'This month shall be unto you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
你們要以本月為你們的正月，為你們算是一年的首月。
3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying: In 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;
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。
4 and if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he and his neighbour next unto his house take one according to the number of the souls; according to every man's eating ye shall make your count for the lamb.
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。
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year; ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats;
羔羊應是一歲無殘疾的公羊，要由綿羊或山羊中挑選。
6 and ye shall keep it unto the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at dusk.
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。
7 And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel, upon the houses wherein they shall eat it.
各家都應取些血塗在吃羔羊的房屋的兩門框和門楣上。
8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
在那一夜要吃肉；肉要用火烤了，同無酵餅及苦菜一起吃。
9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with the inwards thereof.
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。
10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
一點也不許留到早晨；若是早晨還有剩下的，都要用火燒掉。
11 And thus shall ye eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste — it is the LORD'S passover.
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。
12 For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD.
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。
13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
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。
14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
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。
15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; howbeit the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses; for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
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。
16 And 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, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.
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。
17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore shall ye observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance for ever.
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。
18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
從正月十四日晚起，到二十一日晚為止，你們應吃無酵餅。
19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses; for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or one that is born in the land.
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。
20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.'
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
21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them: 'Draw out, and take you lambs according to your families, and kill the passover lamb.
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。
22 And ye 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.
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。
23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side-posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
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。
24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
你們應遵守這規定，作為你們子孫的永遠法規。
25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as He hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
日後你們到了上主許給你們的地方，應守這禮。
26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you: What mean ye by this service?
將來你們的子孫若問你們這禮有什麼意思，
27 that ye shall say: It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, for that He passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when He smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses.' And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
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。
28 And the children of Israel went and did so; as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
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
29 And it came to pass at midnight, that the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle.
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。
30 And 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.
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。
31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night and said: 'Rise up, get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
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!
32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.'
也照你們所要求的，帶著你的羊群牛群去罷! 也為我求祝福。」
33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, to send them out of the land in haste; for they said: 'We are all dead men.'
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! 」
34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
百姓便把沒有發酵的麵團和麵盆包在外衣內，背在肩上。
35 And 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 raiment.
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。
36 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. And they despoiled the Egyptians.
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
37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.
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。
38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
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。
39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
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。
40 Now the time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.
以色列子民居留埃及共有四百三十年。
41 And it came to pass at the end of four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the host of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
四百三十年屆滿的那一天，上主的軍旅離開了埃及.。
42 It was a night of watching unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt; this same night is a night of watching unto the LORD for all the children of Israel throughout their generations.
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
43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron: 'This is the ordinance of the passover: there shall no alien eat thereof;
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。
44 but every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
凡用錢買來的奴隸，受過割損禮後，方可參加。
45 A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof.
旅客和傭工不得參加。
46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth aught of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
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。
47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
以色列全會眾都應舉行此祭餐。
48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
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。
49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.'
本地人和住在你們中間的外方人同屬一例。」
50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
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。
51 And it came to pass the selfsame day that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.
就在這一天，上主將以色列子民一隊一隊地領出了埃及。
