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¹ And Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,² Sanctify to me all the first-born, whatever opens the womb among the sons of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.³ And Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slaves; for by strength of hand Yahweh brought you out from this place: there shall be no leavened bread eaten.⁴ This day you go forth in the month Abib.⁵ And it shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, and the Hittite, and the Amorite, and the Hivite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, that you shall keep this service in this month.⁶ Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a feast to Yahweh.⁷ Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and there shall be no leavened bread seen with you, neither shall there be leaven seen with you, in all your borders.⁸ And you shall tell your son in that day, saying, It is because of that which Yahweh did for me when I came forth out of Egypt.⁹ And it shall be for a sign to you on your hand, and for a memorial between your eyes, that the law of Yahweh may be in your mouth: for with a strong hand Yahweh has brought you out of Egypt.¹⁰ You shall therefore keep this ordinance in its season from year to year.

¹¹ And it shall be, when Yahweh shall bring you into the land of the Canaanite, as he swore to you and to your fathers, and shall give it you,¹² that you shall set apart to Yahweh all that opens the womb, and every firstborn which you have that comes of a beast; the males shall be Yahweh's.¹³ And every firstborn of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you will not redeem it, then you shall break its neck: and all the first-born of man among your sons you shall redeem.¹⁴ And it shall be, when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What is this? that you shall say to him, By strength of hand Yahweh brought us out from Egypt, from the house of slaves:¹⁵ and it came to pass, when Pharaoh hardened against letting us go, that Yahweh slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of man to the first-born of beast: therefore I sacrifice to Yahweh all that opens the womb, being males; but all the first-born of my sons I redeem.¹⁶ And it shall be for a sign on your hand, and for frontlets between your eyes: for by strength of hand Yahweh brought us forth out of Egypt.

¹⁷ And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that God didn't lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Or else perhaps the people will repent when they see war, and they return to Egypt:¹⁸ but God led the people about, by the way of the wilderness by the Red Sea: and the sons of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.¹⁹ And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the sons of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and you shall carry up my bones away from here with you.²⁰ And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge of the wilderness.²¹ And Yahweh went before them by day in a pillar of cloud, to lead them the way, and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light, that they might go by day and by night:²² the pillar of cloud by day, and the pillar of fire by night, did not depart from before the people.