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The Passover Lamb

¹ Now Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron in the land of ^(F1)Egypt,² "^(C1)This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.³ "Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a ^(F1)lamb for themselves, according to their fathers' households, a ^(F1)lamb for ^(F2)each household.⁴ 'Now if the household is too small for a ^(F1)lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the ^(F2)number of persons in them; according to ^(F3)what each man should eat, you are to ^(F4)apportion the lamb.⁵ 'Your ^(F1)lamb shall be ^(C1)a male, without blemish, a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.⁶ '^(F1)And you shall keep it until the ^(C1)fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall slaughter it ^(F2)(C2)at twilight.⁷ '^(C1)Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel ^(F1)of the houses in which they eat it.⁸ 'And they shall eat the flesh ^(C1)that night, ^(C2)roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with ^(C3)unleavened bread ^(F1)(C4)and bitter herbs.⁹ 'Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather ^(C1)roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with ^(C2)its entrails.¹⁰ '^(C1)And you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn with fire.¹¹ 'Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste—it is ^(C1)the Passover of Yahweh.¹² 'And ^(C1)I will go through the land of Egypt on that night and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and ^(C2)against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments—^(C3)I am Yahweh.¹³ '^(C1)And the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and I will see the blood, and I will pass over you, and there shall be no plague among you ^(F1)to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

The Feast of Unleavened Bread

¹⁴ 'Now ^(C1)this day will be ^(C2)a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to Yahweh; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as ^(F1)(C3)a perpetual statute.¹⁵ '^(C1)Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall ^(F1)remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, ^(C2)that ^(F2)person shall be cut off from Israel.¹⁶ '^(C1)Now on the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten ^(F1)by every person, that alone may be done by you.¹⁷ 'You shall also keep ^(C1)the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this ^(C2)very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall keep this day throughout your generations as ^(F1)(C3)a perpetual statute.¹⁸ '^(C1)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.¹⁹ '^(C1)Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that ^(F1)(C2)person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land.²⁰ 'You shall not eat anything leavened; in all your places of habitation you shall eat unleavened bread.'"

²¹ Then ^(C1)Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, "^(F1)Bring out and ^(C2)take for yourselves ^(F2)lambs according to your families and slaughter ^(C3)the Passover lamb.²² "^(C1)And you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and ^(F1)touch some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts; and none of you shall go outside the doorway of his house until morning.²³ "And ^(C1)Yahweh will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and He will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and Yahweh will pass over the doorway and will ^(C2)not allow the ^(C3)destroyer to come into your houses to smite you.²⁴ "And ^(C1)you shall keep this event as a statute for you and your children forever.²⁵ "And it will be, when you enter the land which Yahweh will give you, as He has ^(F1)promised, you shall keep this new ^(F2)slavery.²⁶ "^(C1)And it will be when your children say to you, '^(F1)What is the meaning of this new slavery to you?'²⁷ that you shall say, 'It is a Passover sacrifice to ^(C1)Yahweh who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but delivered our homes.'" ^(C2)And the people bowed low and worshiped.

²⁸ Then the sons of Israel went and did so; just as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

Death of the Firstborn of Egypt

²⁹ Now it happened at ^(C1)midnight that ^(C2)Yahweh struck all ^(C3)the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the ^(F1)dungeon, and all the firstborn of ^(C4)cattle.³⁰ Then Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was ^(C1)a great cry in Egypt, for there was no home where there was not someone dead.³¹ Then ^(C1)he called for Moses and Aaron at night and said, "Rise up, ^(C2)get out from among my people, both you and the sons of Israel; and go, ^(F1)serve Yahweh, as you have spoken.³² "Take ^(C1)both your flocks and your herds, as you have spoken, and go, and bless me also."

Israel Goes Out from Egypt

^35 (C1)Now the sons of Israel had done according to the word of Moses—they had asked from the Egyptians for articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing;³⁶ and Yahweh had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they ^(C1)plundered the Egyptians.

³⁷ And the ^(C1)sons of Israel journeyed from ^(C2)Rameses to Succoth, about ^(C3)six hundred thousand men on foot, aside from the little ones.³⁸ A ^(F1)(C1)foreign multitude also went up with them, ^(F2)along with flocks and herds, a ^(C2)very ^(F3)large number of livestock.³⁹ And they baked the dough which they had brought out of Egypt into cakes of unleavened bread. For it had not become leavened, since they were ^(C1)driven out of Egypt and could not delay, nor had they ^(F1)prepared any provisions for themselves.

⁴⁰ Now the time ^(F1)that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was ^(C1)430 years.⁴¹ And it happened at the end of 430 years, ^(F1)to ^(C1)the very day, that ^(C2)all the hosts of Yahweh went out from the land of Egypt.^42 (C1)It is a night to be kept for Yahweh for having brought them out from the land of Egypt; this night is for Yahweh, to be kept ^(F1)by all the sons of Israel throughout their generations.

The Statute of the Passover

⁴³ And Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the statute of ^(C1)the Passover: no ^(F1)(C2)foreigner shall eat of it;⁴⁴ but every man's ^(C1)slave purchased with money, after you have circumcised him, then he may eat of it.⁴⁵ "^(C1)A foreign resident or a hired person shall not eat of it.⁴⁶ "It shall be eaten in a single house; you shall not bring forth any of the flesh outside of the house, ^(C1)and you shall not break any bone of it.⁴⁷ "^(C1)All the congregation of Israel shall ^(F1)celebrate this.⁴⁸ "But ^(C1)if a sojourner sojourns with you and ^(F1)celebrates the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near to ^(F2)celebrate it; and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat of it.⁴⁹ "^(F1)(C1)The same law shall ^(F2)apply to the native as to the sojourner who sojourns among you."

⁵⁰ So all the sons of Israel did; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, thus they did.⁵¹ And on that same day ^(C1)Yahweh brought the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt ^(F1)(C2)by their hosts.