Exodus 12
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1 And the LORD spake
unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2 This month shall be unto
you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the
year to you.
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 the house of their fathers,
a lamb for an house:
4 And if the household be too little
for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it
according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating
shall make your count for the lamb.
5 Your lamb shall be without
blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the
sheep, or from the goats:
6 And ye shall keep it up until the
fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the
congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
7 And they shall take of the blood,
and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of
the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
8 And they shall eat the flesh in
that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs
they shall eat it.
9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at
all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and
with the purtenance thereof.
10 And ye shall let nothing of it
remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning
ye shall burn with fire.
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 LORDS passover.
12 For I will pass through the land
of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of
Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will
execute judgment: I am the LORD.
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 the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you,
when I smite the land of Egypt.
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.
15 Seven days shall ye eat
unleavened bread; even 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.
16 And in the first day there
shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an
holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that
which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
17 And ye shall observe the feast
of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your
armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in
your generations by an ordinance for ever.
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.
19 Seven days shall there be no
leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened,
even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether
he be a stranger, or born in the land.
20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in
all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
21 Then Moses called
for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a
lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
22 And ye shall take a bunch of
hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and
strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in
the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the
morning.
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.
24 And ye shall observe this thing
for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
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.
26 And it shall come to pass, when
your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
27 That ye shall say, It is
the sacrifice of the LORDS passover, who 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.
28 And the children of Israel went
away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
29 And it came to pass,
that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,
from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of
the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of
cattle.
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.
31 And he called for Moses and Aaron
by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my
people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye
have said.
32 Also take your flocks and your
herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
33 And the Egyptians were urgent
upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for
they said, We be all dead men.
34 And the people took their dough
before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their
clothes upon their shoulders.
35 And the children of Israel did
according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels
of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
36 And the LORD gave the people
favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such
things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
37 And the children of
Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on
foot that were men, beside children.
38 And a mixed multitude went up
also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
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.
40 Now the sojourning of the
children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty
years.
41 And it came to pass at the end of
the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass,
that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
42 It is a night to be much
observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is
that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in
their generations.
43 And the LORD said
unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There
shall no stranger eat thereof:
44 But every mans servant that is
bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat
thereof.
45 A foreigner and an hired servant
shall not eat thereof.
46 In one house shall it be eaten;
thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house;
neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
47 All the congregation of Israel
shall keep it.
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: for no uncircumcised person shall eat
thereof.
49 One law shall be to him that is
homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
50 Thus did all the children of
Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
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 armies.
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