1And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in
the land of Egypt, saying,
2This month shall
be unto you the beginning of months: it shall
be the first month of the year to you.
3Speak 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:
4And 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.
5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male
of the first year: ye shall take it out
from the sheep, or from the goats:
6And 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.
7And 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.
8And they shall eat the flesh in that night,
roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with
bitter herbs they
shall eat it.
9Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with
water, but roast with fire;
his head with his legs, and with the purtenance
thereof.
10And ye shall let nothing of it remain until
the morning; and that which remaineth of it until
the morning ye shall burn with fire.
11And 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
LORD'S passover.
12For 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.
13And 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.
14And 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.
15Seven 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.
16And 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.
17And 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.
18In 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.
19Seven 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.
20Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your
habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
21Then 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.
22And 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.
23For 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.
24And ye shall observe this thing for an
ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
25And 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.
26And it shall come to pass, when your
children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this
service?
27That ye shall say, It is the
sacrifice of the LORD'S 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.
28And the children of Israel went away, and
did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so
did they.
29And 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.
30And 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.
31And 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.
32Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye
have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
33And 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.
34And the people took their dough before it
was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up
in their clothes upon their shoulders.
35And 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:
36And 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.
37And the children of Israel journeyed from
Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on
foot that
were men, beside children.
38And a mixed multitude went up also with
them; and flocks, and herds, even very
much cattle.
39And 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.
40Now the sojourning of the children of
Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four
hundred and thirty years.
41And 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.
42It 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.
43And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron,
This is the
ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger
eat thereof:
44But every man's servant that is bought for
money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he
eat thereof.
45A foreigner and an hired servant shall not
eat thereof.
46In 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.
47All the congregation of Israel shall keep
it.
48And 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.
49One law shall be to him that is homeborn,
and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
50Thus did all the children of Israel; as the
LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
51And 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.