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Exodus 12:1 (show verse)

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

Exodus 12:2 (show verse)

“This month shall be the beginning of months to you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.

Exodus 12:3 (show verse)

Tell all the congregation of Israel, ‘On the tenth [day] of this month they are to take a lamb or young goat for themselves, according to [the size of] the household of which he is the father, a lamb or young goat for each household.

Exodus 12:4 (show verse)

Now if the household is too small for a lamb [to be consumed], let him and his next door neighbor take one according to the number of people [in the households]; according to what each man can eat, you are to divide the lamb.

Exodus 12:5 (show verse)

Your lamb or young goat shall be [perfect] without blemish or bodily defect, a male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

Exodus 12:6 (show verse)

You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to slaughter it at twilight.

Exodus 12:7 (show verse)

Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel [above the door] of the houses in which they eat it.

Exodus 12:8 (show verse)

They shall eat the meat that same night, roasted in fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Exodus 12:9 (show verse)

Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted in fire—both its head and its legs, along with its inner parts.

Exodus 12:10 (show verse)

You shall let none of the meat remain until the morning, and anything that remains left over until morning, you shall burn completely in the fire.

Exodus 12:11 (show verse)

Now you are to eat it in this manner: [be prepared for a journey] with your loins girded [that is, with the outer garment tucked into the band], your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; you shall eat it quickly—it is the Lord’s Passover.

Exodus 12:12 (show verse)

For I [the Lord] will pass through the land of Egypt on this night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal; against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments [exhibiting their worthlessness]. I am the Lord.

Exodus 12:13 (show verse)

The blood shall be a sign for you on [the doorposts of] the houses where you live; when I see the blood I shall pass over you, and no affliction shall happen to you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12:14 (show verse)

‘Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as an ordinance forever.

Exodus 12:15 (show verse)

[In the celebration of the Passover in future years,] seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove the leaven from your houses [because it represents the spread of sin]; for whoever eats leavened bread on the first day through the seventh day, that person shall be cut off and excluded from [the atonement made for] Israel.

Exodus 12:16 (show verse)

On the first day [of the feast] you shall have a holy and solemn assembly, and on the seventh day there shall be another holy and solemn assembly; no work of any kind shall be done on those days, except for the preparation of food which every person must eat—only that may be done by you.

Exodus 12:17 (show verse)

You shall also observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because on this very day I brought your hosts [grouped according to tribal armies] out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an ordinance forever.

Exodus 12:18 (show verse)

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, [and continue] until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.

Exodus 12:19 (show verse)

Seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses; whoever eats what is leavened shall be cut off and excluded from [the atonement made for] the congregation of Israel, whether a stranger or native-born.

Exodus 12:20 (show verse)

You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’”

Exodus 12:21 (show verse)

Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and take a lamb for yourselves according to [the size of] your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.

Exodus 12:22 (show verse)

You shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and touch some of the blood to the lintel [above the doorway] and to the two doorposts; and none of you shall go outside the door of his house until morning.

Exodus 12:23 (show verse)

For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel [above the entry way] and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to slay you.

Exodus 12:24 (show verse)

You shall observe this event [concerning Passover] as an ordinance for you and for your children forever.

Exodus 12:25 (show verse)

When you enter the land which the Lord will give you, as He has promised, you shall keep and observe this service.

Exodus 12:26 (show verse)

When your children say to you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’

Exodus 12:27 (show verse)

you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover, for He passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians, but spared our houses.’” And the people bowed [their heads] low and worshiped [God].

Exodus 12:28 (show verse)

Then the Israelites went and did [as they had been told]: just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

Exodus 12:29 (show verse)

Now it happened at midnight that the Lord struck every 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 dungeon, and all the firstborn of the cattle.

Exodus 12:30 (show verse)

Pharaoh got up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry [of heartache and sorrow] in Egypt, for there was no house where there was not someone dead.

Exodus 12:31 (show verse)

Then he called for Moses and Aaron at night and said, “Get up, get out from among my people, both you and the Israelites; and go, serve the Lord, as you said.

Exodus 12:32 (show verse)

Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and [ask your God to] bless me also.”

Exodus 12:33 (show verse)

The Egyptians [anxiously] urged the people [to leave], to send them out of the land quickly, for they said, “We will all be dead.”

Exodus 12:34 (show verse)

So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.

Exodus 12:35 (show verse)

Now the Israelites had acted in accordance with the word of Moses; and they had asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing.

Exodus 12:36 (show verse)

The Lord gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they gave them what they asked. And so they plundered the Egyptians [of those things].

Exodus 12:37 (show verse)

Now the Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides [the women and] the children.

Exodus 12:38 (show verse)

A mixed multitude [of non-Israelites from foreign nations] also went with them, along with both flocks and herds, a very large number of livestock.

Exodus 12:39 (show verse)

And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought from Egypt; it was not leavened, since they were driven [quickly] from Egypt and could not delay, nor had they prepared any food for themselves.

Exodus 12:40 (show verse)

Now the period of time the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

Exodus 12:41 (show verse)

At the end of the four hundred and thirty years, to that very day, all the hosts of the Lord [gathered into tribal armies] left the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12:42 (show verse)

It is a night of watching to be observed for the Lord for having brought them out of the land of Egypt; this [same] night is for the Lord, to be observed and celebrated by all the Israelites throughout their generations.

Exodus 12:43 (show verse)

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover: no foreigner is to eat it;

Exodus 12:44 (show verse)

but every man’s slave who is bought with money, after you have circumcised him, then he may eat it.

Exodus 12:45 (show verse)

No stranger (temporary resident, foreigner) or hired servant shall eat it.

Exodus 12:46 (show verse)

It is to be eaten inside one house; you shall not take any of the meat outside the house, nor shall you break any of its bones.

Exodus 12:47 (show verse)

The entire congregation of Israel shall keep and celebrate it.

Exodus 12:48 (show verse)

If a stranger living temporarily among you wishes to celebrate the Passover to the Lord, all his males must be circumcised, and then he may participate and celebrate it like one that is born in the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat it.

Exodus 12:49 (show verse)

The same law shall apply to the native-born and to the stranger who lives temporarily among you.”

Exodus 12:50 (show verse)

Then all the Israelites did so; they did just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.

Exodus 12:51 (show verse)

And on that very same day the Lord brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their hosts (tribal armies).
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