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¹ And Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,² This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.³ You speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth [day] of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household:⁴ and if the household be too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to every man's eating you shall make your count for the lamb.⁵ Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old: you shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:⁶ and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.⁷ And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel, on the houses wherein they shall eat it.⁸ And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it.⁹ Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; its head with its legs and with the insides thereof.¹⁰ And you shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.¹¹ And thus you shall eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in a hurry: it is Yahweh's passover.¹² For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from man to beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh.¹³ And the blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall be no plague on you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.¹⁴ And this day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it [as] a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it [as] a feast by an ordinance forever.¹⁵ Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whoever eats 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 to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, only that may be done by you.¹⁷ And you shall observe the [feast of] unleavened bread; for in this very same day I have brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt: therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.¹⁸ In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at evening.¹⁹ Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses: for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner, or one that is born in the land.²⁰ You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.

²¹ Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, Draw out, and you take lambs according to your families, and kill the passover.²² And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.²³ For Yahweh will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two side-posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to smite you.²⁴ And you shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.²⁵ And it shall come to pass, when you come to the land which Yahweh will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.²⁶ And it shall come to pass, when your sons shall say to you, What do you mean by this service?²⁷ that you shall say, It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's passover, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshiped.²⁸ And the sons of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

²⁹ And it came to pass at midnight, that Yahweh smote all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne to the first-born of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle.³⁰ And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his slaves, 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, you get forth from among my people, both you and the sons of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said.³² Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also.³³ And the Egyptians were urgent on the people, to send them out of the land in a hurry; for they said, We are all dead men.³⁴ And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.³⁵ And the sons of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment.³⁶ And Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. And they despoiled the Egyptians.

³⁷ And the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were [able-bodied] men, besides children.³⁸ And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very many cattle.³⁹ And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt; for it wasn't leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victuals.⁴⁰ Now the time that the sons of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.⁴¹ And it came to pass at the end of four hundred and thirty years, even the very same day it came to pass, that all the hosts of Yahweh went out from the land of Egypt.⁴² It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of Yahweh, to be much observed of all the sons of Israel throughout their generations.

⁴³ And Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: no foreigner shall eat thereof;⁴⁴ but every man's slave that is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he shall eat thereof.⁴⁵ A sojourner and a hired worker shall not eat thereof.⁴⁶ In one house it shall be eaten; you shall not carry forth anything of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall you break a bone thereof.⁴⁷ All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.⁴⁸ And when a stranger shall sojourn with you, and will keep the passover to Yahweh, 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: but no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.⁴⁹ One law shall be to him that is home-born, and to the stranger that sojourns among you.⁵⁰ Thus did all the sons of Israel; as Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.⁵¹ And it came to pass the very same day, that Yahweh brought the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.