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Themes in Exodus 12
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Themes in Exodus 12

Exodus 12:1

Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:

Exodus 12:2

This month shall be the beginning of months for you. It is to be the first month of the year to you.

Exodus 12:3

Tell the whole community of Israel: 'On the tenth day of this month each man must take a sheep for his family, one animal per household.

Exodus 12:4

A household may be too small to eat a whole animal. That household and the one next-door can share one animal. Choose your animal based on the number of people and what each person can eat.

Exodus 12:5

Your animal must be a one-year-old male that has no defects. You may choose a lamb or a young goat.

Exodus 12:6

Take care of it until the fourteenth day of this month. Then at dusk, all the assembled people from the community of Israel must slaughter their animals.

Exodus 12:7

Some of the blood must be put on the two doorposts and above the door of each house where the animals are to be eaten.

Exodus 12:8

That night the animals are to be roasted and eaten, together with bitter herbs (greens) and unleavened bread made without yeast.

Exodus 12:9

Do not eat the meat raw or boiled. The entire animal, including its head, legs, and insides, must be roasted.

Exodus 12:10

Eat what you want that night, and the next morning burn whatever is left.

Exodus 12:11

Eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste. It is Jehovah's Passover.'

Exodus 12:12

Jehovah said: That night I will go through the land of Egypt. I will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt! I am Jehovah!

Exodus 12:13

The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you live. When I see the blood I will pass over you. No plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12:14

This day will be a memorial to you. You shall celebrate it as a feast to Jehovah. You are to celebrate it as a permanent ordinance throughout your generations.

Exodus 12:15

You will eat unleavened bread for seven days. The first day you shall remove leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day will be cut off from Israel.

Exodus 12:16

You shall have a holy assembly on the first day. There should be another holy assembly on the seventh day. No work at all will be done on them, except what must be eaten by every person that alone may be prepared by you.

Exodus 12:17

You shall also observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread. That was the day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Observe this day throughout your generations as a long lasting ordinance.

Exodus 12:18

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.

Exodus 12:19

There shall be no leaven found in your houses for seven days. Whoever eats what is leavened shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land.

Exodus 12:20

You shall not eat anything leavened. Eat unleavened bread in all your dwellings.

Exodus 12:21

Moses called all the elders of Israel and said: Take lambs according to your families and slay the Passover lamb.

Exodus 12:22

Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin. Apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts. No one shall go outside the door of his house until morning.

Exodus 12:23

Jehovah will pass through to strike the Egyptians. When he sees the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe, Jehovah will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to kill you.

Exodus 12:24

You shall observe this event as an ordinance for you and your children from generation to generation.

Exodus 12:25

When you enter the land Jehovah will give you, as he has promised, you shall observe this rite.

Exodus 12:26

When your children ask you: What does this rite mean to you?

Exodus 12:27

You shall say: 'It is a Passover sacrifice to Jehovah who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He killed the Egyptians, but spared our homes. The people bowed low and worshiped.'

Exodus 12:28

Then the sons of Israel did just as Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron.

Exodus 12:29

At midnight Jehovah killed every firstborn male in Egypt from the firstborn son of Pharaoh who ruled the land to the firstborn son of the prisoner in jail, and also every firstborn animal.

Exodus 12:30

Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the other Egyptians got up during the night. There was loud crying throughout Egypt because in every house someone had died.

Exodus 12:31

Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron during the night. He said: You and the Israelites must leave my people at once. Go serve Jehovah just as you requested.

Exodus 12:32

Take your flocks and herds, too, as you asked. Just go! And bless me, too!

Exodus 12:33

The Egyptians begged the people to leave the country quickly. They said: We will all be dead soon!

Exodus 12:34

The people picked up their bread dough before it had risen. They carried it on their shoulders in bowls and wrapped up in their clothes.

Exodus 12:35

The sons of Israel did what Moses told them. They asked the Egyptians for gold and silver jewelry and for clothes.

Exodus 12:36

Jehovah made the Egyptians generous to the people. They gave them what they asked for. So the sons of Israel stripped Egypt of its wealth.

Exodus 12:37

The Israelites left Rameses to go to Succoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, plus all the women and children.

Exodus 12:38

Many other people also went with them, along with large numbers of sheep, goats, and cattle.

Exodus 12:39

With the dough they had brought from Egypt, they baked round, flat bread. The dough had not risen because they had been thrown out of Egypt and had no time to prepare food for the trip.

Exodus 12:40

The Israelites had been living in Egypt for four hundred and thirty years.

Exodus 12:41

After exactly four hundred and thirty years all of Jehovah's people left Egypt in organized family groups.

Exodus 12:42

It is a night to be observed for Jehovah for having brought them out from the land of Egypt. This night is for Jehovah and should be observed by all the sons of Israel throughout their generations.

Exodus 12:43

Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron: This is the ordinance of the Passover: no foreigner is to eat of it.

Exodus 12:44

After you have circumcised your purchased slave he may eat of it.

Exodus 12:45

No foreigner visiting you may eat it. No hired worker may eat it.

Exodus 12:46

The meal must be eaten inside one house. Never take any of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones.

Exodus 12:47

The entire community of Israel must celebrate the Passover.

Exodus 12:48

The uncircumcised man may not eat it. If a foreigner has settled among you and wants to celebrate Passover to honor Jehovah, you must first circumcise all the males of his household. He is then to be treated like a native-born Israelite and may join in the festival.

Exodus 12:49

The same regulations apply to native-born Israelites and to foreigners who settle among you.

Exodus 12:50

All the Israelites obeyed. They did what Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron.

Exodus 12:51

On that day Jehovah brought the Israelite tribes out of Egypt.
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