Exodus 12
1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt. He said,
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:
2 “For you, this month will be the start of months, the first month of the year to you.
This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it shall be the first in the months of the year.
3 Tell the assembly of Israel, 'On the tenth day of this month they must each take a lamb or young goat for themselves, each family doing this, a lamb for each household.
Speak ye to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and say to them: On the tenth day of this month let every man take a lamb by their families and houses.
4 If the household is too small for a lamb, the man and his next door neighbor are to take lamb or young goat meat that will be enough for the number of the people. It should be enough for everyone to eat, so they must take enough meat to feed them all.
But if the number be less than may suffice to eat the lamb, he shall take unto him his neighbour that joineth to his house, according to the number of souls which may be enough to eat the lamb.
5 Your lamb or young goat must be without blemish, a one-year-old male. You may take one of the sheep or goats.
And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one year: according to which rite also you shall take a kid.
6 You must keep it until the fourteenth day of that month. Then the whole assembly of Israel must kill these animals at twilight.
And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month: and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the evening.
7 You must take some of the blood and put it on the two side doorposts and on the tops of the doorframes of the houses in which you will eat the meat.
And they shall take of the blood thereof, and put it upon both the side posts, and on the upper door posts of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
8 You must eat the meat that night, after first roasting it over a fire. Eat it with bread made without yeast, along with bitter herbs.
And they shall eat the flesh that night roasted at the fire, and unleavened bread with wild lettuce.
9 Do not eat it raw or boiled in water. Instead, roast it over fire with its head, legs and inner parts.
You shall not eat thereof any thing raw, nor boiled in water, but only roasted at the fire: you shall eat the head with the feet and entrails thereof.
10 You must not let any of it be left over until morning. You must burn whatever is left over in the morning.
Neither shall there remain any thing of it until morning. If there be any thing left, you shall burn it with fire.
11 This is how you must eat it: with your belt fastened, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You must eat it hurriedly. It is Yahweh's Passover.
And thus you shall eat it: you shall gird your reins, and you shall have shoes on your feet, holding staves in your hands, and you shall eat in haste: for it is the Phase (that is the Passage) of the Lord.
12 Yahweh says this: I will go through the land of Egypt in that night and attack all the firstborn of man and animal in the land of Egypt. I will bring punishment on all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh.
And I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and will kill every firstborn in the land of Egypt both man and beast: and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord.
13 The blood will be a sign on your houses for my coming to you. When I see the blood, I will pass over you when I attack the land of Egypt. This plague will not come on you and destroy you.
And the blood shall be unto you for a sign in the houses where you shall be: and I shall see the blood, and shall pass over you: and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I shall strike the land of Egypt.
14 This day will become a memorial day for you, which you must observe as a festival for Yahweh. It will always be a law for you, throughout your people's generations, that you must observe this day.
And this day shall be for a memorial to you: and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord in your generations with an everlasting observance.
15 You will eat bread without yeast during seven days. On the first day you will remove the yeast from your houses. Whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person must be cut off from Israel.
Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread: in the first day there shall be no leaven in your houses: whosoever shall eat any thing leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall perish out of Israel.
16 On the first day there will be an assembly that is set apart to me, and on the seventh day there will be another such gathering. No work will be done on these days, except the cooking for everyone to eat. That must be the only work that may be done by you.
The first day shall be holy and solemn, and the seventh day shall be kept with the like solemnity: you shall do no work in them, except those things that belong to eating.
17 You must observe this Festival of Unleavened Bread because it is on this day that I will have brought your people, armed group by armed group, out of the land of Egypt. So you must observe this day throughout your people's generations. This will always be a law for you.
And you shall observe the feast of the unleavened bread: for in this same day I will bring forth your army out of the land of Egypt, and you shall keep this day in your generations by a perpetual observance.
18 You must eat unleavened bread from twilight of the fourteenth day in the first month of the year, until twilight of the twenty-first day of the month.
The first month, the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the same month in the evening.
19 During these seven days, no yeast must be found in your houses. Whoever eats bread made with yeast must be cut off from the community of Israel, whether that person is a foreigner or someone born in your land.
Seven days there shall not be found any leaven in your houses: he that shall eat leavened bread, his soul shall perish out of the assembly of Israel, whether he be a stranger or born in the land.
20 You must eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat bread made without yeast.'”
You shall not eat any thing leavened: in all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.
21 Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and select lambs or kids that will be enough to feed your families and kill the Passover lamb.
And Moses called all the ancients of the children of Israel, and said to them: Go take a lamb by your families, and sacrifice the Phase.
22 Then take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that will be in a basin. Apply the blood in the basin to the top of the doorframe and the two doorposts. None of you is to go out of the door of his house until the morning.
And dip a bunch of hyssop in the blood that is at the door, and sprinkle the transom of the door therewith, and both the door cheeks: let none of you go out of the door of his house till morning.
23 For Yahweh will pass through to attack the Egyptians. When he sees the blood on the top of the doorframe and on the two doorposts, he will pass over your door and not permit the destroyer to come into your houses to attack you.
For the Lord will pass through striking the Egyptians: and when he shall see the blood on the transom, and on both the posts, he will pass over the door of the house, and not suffer the destroyer to come into your houses and to hurt you.
24 You must observe this event. This will always be a law for you and your descendants.
Thou shalt keep this thing as a law for thee and thy children for ever.
25 When you enter the land that Yahweh will give you, just as he has promised to do, you must observe this act of worship.
And when you have entered into the land which the Lord will give you as he hath promised, you shall observe these ceremonies.
26 When your children ask you, 'What does this act of worship mean?'
And when your children shall say to you: What is the meaning of this service?
27 then you must say, 'It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's Passover, because Yahweh passed over the Israelites' houses in Egypt when he attacked the Egyptians. He set our households free.'” Then the people bowed down and worshiped Yahweh.
You shall say to them: It is the victim of the passage of the Lord, when he passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, striking the Egyptians, and saving our houses. And the people bowing themselves, adored.
28 The Israelites went and did exactly as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron.
And the children of Israel going forth did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.
29 It happened at midnight that Yahweh attacked all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the person in prison and all the firstborn of cattle.
And it came to pass at midnight, the Lord slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharao, who sat on his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive woman that was in the prison, and all the firstborn of cattle.
30 Pharaoh got up in the night—he, all his servants, and all the Egyptians. There was loud lamenting in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not someone dead.
And Pharao arose in the night, and all his servants, and all Egypt: for there was not a house wherein there lay not one dead.
31 Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron in the night and said, “Get up, get out from among my people, you and the Israelites. Go, worship Yahweh, as you have said you wanted to do.
And Pharao calling Moses and Aaron, in the night, said: Arise and go forth from among my people, you and the children of Israel: go, sacrifice to the Lord as you say.
32 Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and also bless me.”
Your sheep and herds take along with you, as you demanded, and departing, bless me.
33 The Egyptians were in a great hurry to send them out of the land, for they said, “We will all die.”
And the Egyptians pressed the people to go forth out of the land speedily, saying: We shall all die.
34 So the people took their dough without adding any yeast. Their kneading bowls were already tied up in their clothes and on their shoulders.
The people therefore took dough before it was leavened: and tying it in their cloaks, put it on their shoulders.
35 Now the people of Israel did as Moses told them. They asked the Egyptians for articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing.
And the children of Israel did as Moses had commanded: and they asked of the Egyptians vessels of silver and gold, and very much raiment.
36 Yahweh made the Egyptians eager to please the Israelites. So the Egyptians gave them whatever they asked for. In this way, the Israelites plundered the Egyptians.
And the Lord gave favour to the people in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them: and they stripped the Egyptians.
37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth. They numbered about 600,000 men on foot, in addition to the women and children.
And the children of Israel set forward from Ramesse to Socoth, being about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.
38 A mixed multitude also went with them, together with flocks and herds, a very large number of livestock.
And a mixed multitude without number went up also with them, sheep and herds and beasts of divers kinds, exceeding many.
39 They baked bread without yeast in the dough that they brought from Egypt. It was without yeast because they had been driven out of Egypt and could not delay to prepare food.
And they baked the meal, which a little before they had brought out of Egypt, in dough: and they made earth cakes unleavened: for it could not be leavened, the Egyptians pressing them to depart, and not suffering them to make any stay: neither did they think of preparing any meat.
40 The Israelites had lived in Egypt for 430 years.
And the abode of the children of Israel that they made in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
41 At the end of 430 years, on that very day, all of Yahweh's armed groups went out from the land of Egypt.
Which being expired, the same day all the army of the Lord went forth out of the land of Egypt.
42 This was a night to stay awake, for Yahweh to bring them out from the land of Egypt. This was Yahweh's night to be observed by all the Israelites throughout their people's generations.
This is the observable night of the Lord, when he brought them forth out of the land of Egypt: this night all the children of Israel must observe in their generations.
43 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “Here is the rule for the Passover: No foreigner may share in eating it.
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: This is the service of the Phase: No foreigner shall eat of it.
44 However, every Israelite's slave, bought with money, may eat it after you have circumcised him.
But every bought servant shall be circumcised, and so shall eat.
45 Foreigners and hired servants must not eat any of the food.
The stranger and the hireling shall not eat thereof.
46 The food must be eaten in one house. You must not carry any of the meat out of the house, and you must not break any bone of it.
In one house shall it be eaten, neither shall you carry forth of the flesh thereof out of the house, neither shall you break a bone thereof.
47 All the community of Israel must observe the festival.
All the assembly of the children of Israel shall keep it.
48 If a foreigner lives with you and wants to observe the Passover to Yahweh, all his male relatives must be circumcised. Then he may come and observe it. He will become like the people who were born in the land. However, no uncircumcised person may eat any of the food.
And if any stranger be willing to dwell among you, and to keep the Phase of the Lord, all his males shall first be circumcised, and then shall he celebrate it according to the manner: and he shall be as he that is born in the land: but if any man be uncircumcised, he shall not eat thereof.
49 This same law will apply to both the native born and to the foreigner who lives among you.”
The same law shall be to him that is born in the land, and to the proselyte that sojourneth with you.
50 So all the Israelites did exactly as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron.
And all the children of Israel did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.
51 It came about that very day that Yahweh brought Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armed groups.
And the same day the Lord brought forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their companies.
