Exodus 12
1 Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
耶和華在埃及地曉諭摩西、亞倫說：
2 "This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.
「你們要以本月為正月，為一年之首。
3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On 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;
你們吩咐以色列全會眾說：本月初十日，各人要按着父家取羊羔，一家一隻。
4 and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
若是一家的人太少，吃不了一隻羊羔，本人就要和他隔壁的鄰舍共取一隻。你們預備羊羔，要按着人數和飯量計算。
5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male in its first year. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
要無殘疾、一歲的公羊羔，你們或從綿羊裏取，或從山羊裏取，都可以。
6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.
要留到本月十四日，在黃昏的時候，以色列全會眾把羊羔宰了。
7 They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.
各家要取點血，塗在吃羊羔的房屋左右的門框上和門楣上。
8 They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.
當夜要吃羊羔的肉；用火烤了，與無酵餅和苦菜同吃。
9 Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.
不可吃生的，斷不可吃水煮的，要帶着頭、腿、五臟，用火烤了吃。
10 You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.
不可剩下一點留到早晨；若留到早晨，要用火燒了。
11 This is how you shall eat it: with your waist girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD's Passover.
你們吃羊羔當腰間束帶，腳上穿鞋，手中拿杖，趕緊地吃；這是耶和華的逾越節。
12 For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD.
因為那夜我要巡行埃及地，把埃及地一切頭生的，無論是人是牲畜，都擊殺了，又要敗壞埃及一切的神。我是耶和華。
13 The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
這血要在你們所住的房屋上作記號；我一見這血，就越過你們去。我擊殺埃及地頭生的時候，災殃必不臨到你們身上滅你們。」
14 This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to the LORD: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.
「你們要記念這日，守為耶和華的節，作為你們世世代代永遠的定例。
15 "'Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
你們要吃無酵餅七日。頭一日要把酵從你們各家中除去；因為從頭一日起，到第七日為止，凡吃有酵之餅的，必從以色列中剪除。
16 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, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.
頭一日你們當有聖會，第七日也當有聖會。這兩日之內，除了預備各人所要吃的以外，無論何工都不可做。
17 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day have I brought your regiments out of the land of Egypt: therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.
你們要守無酵節，因為我正當這日把你們的軍隊從埃及地領出來。所以，你們要守這日，作為世世代代永遠的定例。
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.
從正月十四日晚上，直到二十一日晚上，你們要吃無酵餅。
19 For seven days yeast must not be found in your houses, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that person must be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.
在你們各家中，七日之內不可有酵；因為凡吃有酵之物的，無論是寄居的，是本地的，必從以色列的會中剪除。
20 You must eat nothing leavened. In all your places where you live you must eat unleavened bread.'"
有酵的物，你們都不可吃；在你們一切住處要吃無酵餅。」
21 Then Moses called for all the elders of the children of Israel, and said to them, "Go and select lambs according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb.
於是，摩西召了以色列的眾長老來，對他們說：「你們要按着家口取出羊羔，把這逾越節的羊羔宰了。
22 And you are to take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and apply it on the top and on both sides of the doorframe with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you is to go out of the door of his house until morning.
拿一把牛膝草，蘸盆裏的血，打在門楣上和左右的門框上。你們誰也不可出自己的房門，直到早晨。
23 For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.
因為耶和華要巡行擊殺埃及人，他看見血在門楣上和左右的門框上，就必越過那門，不容滅命的進你們的房屋，擊殺你們。
24 And you must observe this as an ordinance for you and your children forever.
這例，你們要守着，作為你們和你們子孫永遠的定例。
25 And it shall come to pass when you enter the land which the LORD will give you, as he has promised, you must keep this ceremony.
日後，你們到了耶和華按着所應許賜給你們的那地，就要守這禮。
26 And it shall be, when your children ask you, 'What do you mean by this ceremony?'
你們的兒女問你們說：『行這禮是甚麼意思？』
27 that you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of the LORD's Passover, because he passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.'" And the people bowed down and worshiped.
你們就說：『這是獻給耶和華逾越節的祭。當以色列人在埃及的時候，他擊殺埃及人，越過以色列人的房屋，救了我們各家。』」於是百姓低頭下拜。
28 Then the children of Israel went away and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
耶和華怎樣吩咐摩西、亞倫，以色列人就怎樣行。
29 And it came to pass at midnight that the LORD killed all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the prison, and all the firstborn of livestock.
到了半夜，耶和華把埃及地所有的長子，就是從坐寶座的法老，直到被擄囚在監裏之人的長子，以及一切頭生的牲畜，盡都殺了。
30 And Pharaoh got up during the night, he, and all his servants, and all Egypt, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not someone dead.
法老和一切臣僕，並埃及眾人，夜間都起來了。在埃及有大哀號，無一家不死一個人的。
31 Then he summoned for Moses and Aaron during the night, and said, "Get up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have requested.
夜間，法老召了摩西、亞倫來，說：「起來！連你們帶以色列人，從我民中出去，依你們所說的，去事奉耶和華吧！
32 Take your flocks and your herds, as you have requested, and be gone, but bless me also."
也依你們所說的，連羊群牛群帶着走吧！並要為我祝福。」
33 The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land quickly, for they said, "We will all be dead."
埃及人催促百姓，打發他們快快出離那地，因為埃及人說：「我們都要死了。」
34 So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls wrapped in their clothing on their shoulders.
百姓就拿着沒有酵的生麵，把摶麵盆包在衣服中，扛在肩頭上。
35 Now the children of Israel did according to what Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and articles of gold and clothing.
以色列人照着摩西的話行，向埃及人要金器、銀器，和衣裳。
36 And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, and they gave them whatever they wanted. And so they plundered Egypt.
耶和華叫百姓在埃及人眼前蒙恩，以致埃及人給他們所要的。他們就把埃及人的財物奪去了。
37 And the children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides their dependents.
以色列人從蘭塞起行，往疏割去；除了婦人孩子，步行的男人約有六十萬。
38 And a mixed crowd also went up with them, and a huge number of livestock, both flocks and herds.
又有許多閒雜人，並有羊群牛群，和他們一同上去。
39 And they baked unleavened loaves using the dough that they had brought out of Egypt; for it wasn't leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn't wait, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves.
他們用埃及帶出來的生麵烤成無酵餅。這生麵原沒有發起；因為他們被催逼離開埃及，不能耽延，也沒有為自己預備甚麼食物。
40 Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.
以色列人住在埃及共有四百三十年。
41 And it came to pass at the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, it came to pass that all the regiments of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
正滿了四百三十年的那一天，耶和華的軍隊都從埃及地出來了。
42 It was a night when the LORD kept vigil to bring them out from the land of Egypt. So on this night all the children of Israel must keep a vigil to the LORD throughout their generations.
這夜是耶和華的夜；因耶和華領他們出了埃及地，所以當向耶和華謹守，是以色列眾人世世代代該謹守的。
43 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner may eat of it,
耶和華對摩西、亞倫說：「逾越節的例是這樣：外邦人都不可吃這羊羔。
44 but every man's servant who is bought for money, after you have circumcised him, may he eat of it.
但各人用銀子買的奴僕，既受了割禮就可以吃。
45 A foreigner and a hired servant must not eat of it.
寄居的和雇工人都不可吃。
46 It is to be eaten in one house. You must not take any of the meat outside the house, and you are not to break any of its bones.
應當在一個房子裏吃；不可把一點肉從房子裏帶到外頭去。羊羔的骨頭一根也不可折斷。
47 All the congregation of Israel is to keep it.
以色列全會眾都要守這禮。
48 If a foreigner lives with you and wants to keep the Passover to the LORD, all his males must be circumcised, and then he may take part and observe it, and he will be like one who is born in the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat of it.
若有外人寄居在你們中間，願向耶和華守逾越節，他所有的男子務要受割禮，然後才容他前來遵守，他也就像本地人一樣；但未受割禮的，都不可吃這羊羔。
49 The same law will apply to the native-born and to the foreigner who lives among you."
本地人和寄居在你們中間的外人同歸一例。」
50 So all the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
耶和華怎樣吩咐摩西、亞倫，以色列眾人就怎樣行了。
51 And it happened on this very day that the LORD brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their regiments.
正當那日，耶和華將以色列人按着他們的軍隊，從埃及地領出來。
