Exodus:12

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* And the Lord spoke unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt , saying , * This month shall be unto you the chief of months : the first shall it be unto you of the months of the year . * Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel , saying , On the tenth day of this month they shall take to themselves every man a lamb for every family , a lamb for every house : * And if the household be too small for a lamb , then shall he take it with his neighbor who is next unto his house , according to the number of the souls ; every man according to what he eateth shall ye make a count for the lamb . * A lamb without blemish , a male of the first year shall ye have ; from the sheep , or from the goats may ye take it . * And ye shall have it in keeping until the fourteenth day of the same month ; and then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it toward evening . * And they shall take of the blood , and put it on the two side –posts and on the upper door –post , in the houses , wherein they shall eat it . * And they shall eat the flesh in that night , roasted by the fire , with unleavened bread ; together with bitter herbs shall they eat it . * You shall not eat of it raw , nor in any wise sodden with water ; but roasted by the fire ; its head with its legs , and with its entrails . * And ye shall not let any thing of it remain until morning ; and that which remaineth of it until morning ye shall burn with fire . * And 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 passover unto the Lord . * And I will pass through the land of Egypt in this night , and I will smite every first –born in the land of Egypt , both man and beast ; and against all the gods of Egypt will I execute judgments : I am the Lord . * And 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 there shall be no plague against you to destroy , when I smite in the land of Egypt . * And this day shall be unto you for a memorial ; and ye shall celebrate it as a feast unto the Lord ; throughout your generations , as an ordinance for ever shall ye celebrate it . * Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread ; but on the first day ye shall have put away leaven out of your houses ; for whosoever eateth leavened bread , that soul shall be cut off from Israel , from the first day until the seventh day . * And on the first day there shall be a holy convocation , and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation to you ; no manner of work shall be done on them , save what is eaten by every man , that only may be prepared by you . * And ye shall observe the unleavened bread ; for on this selfsame day have I brought forth your armies out of the land of Egypt ; therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations as an ordinance for ever . * In the first month , on the fourteenth day of the month , at evening , shall ye eat unleavened bread , until the one and twentieth day of the month at evening . * Seven days no leaven shall be 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 one born in the land . * Nothing that is leavened shall ye eat ; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread . * And Moses called for the elders of Israel , and said unto them , Draw out and take for yourselves lambs according to your families , and kill the passover sacrifice . * And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop , and dip 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 frown the door of his house until the morning . * And 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 . * And ye shall observe this thing , as an ordinance for thee and for thy sons for ever . * And it shall come to pass , when ye be come into the land which the Lord will give you , according as he hath promised , that ye shall keep this service . * And it shall come to pass , when your children shall say unto you , What mean ye by this service ? * That ye shall say , It is the sacrifice of the passover unto the Lord , who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt , when he smote the Egyptians , and our houses he spared ; and the people bent the head and bowed themselves . * And the children of Israel went away , and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron , so did they . * And it came to pass at midnight , that the Lord smote every first –born in the land of Egypt , from the first –born of Pharaoh that was to sit on his throne unto the first –born of the captive that was in the dungeon ; and all the first –born of cattle . * And 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 some one dead . * And he called for Moses and Aaron by night , and said , Rise up , get you forth from among my people , both ye and the children of Israel ; and go , serve the Eternal , as ye have spoken . * Also your flocks and your herds take , as ye have spoken , and be gone ; and bless me also . * And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people , to make haste to send them away out of the land ; for they said , We are all dying . * And the people took up their dough before it was yet leavened , their kneading –troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders . * And the children of Israel had done according to the word of Moses ; and they had asked of the Egyptians vessels of silver , and vessels of gold , and garments . * And the Lord had given the people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians , so that they gave unto them what they required ; and they emptied out Egypt . * And the children of Israel journeyed from Ra ’meses to Succoth , about six hundred thousand men on foot , beside children . * And a mixed multitude also went up with them ; and flocks , and herds , a very large amount of cattle . * And they baked of the dough , which they had brought forth out of Egypt , unleavened cakes , for it was not leavened ; because they were thrust out of Egypt , and could not tarry , neither had they prepared any provisions for themselves . * Now the time of the residence of the children of Israel , which they dwelt in Egypt , was four hundred and thirty years . * And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years , and it happened even on the selfsame day , that all the armies of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt . * A night to be observed was this unto the Lord to bring them out from the land of Egypt : this is that night holy to the Lord , to be observed by all the children of Israel in their generations . * And the Lord said unto Moses and Aaron , This is the ordinance of the passover : No stranger shall eat thereof . * But every man ’s servant that is bought for money , when thou hast circumcised him , then shall he eat thereof . * A resident foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof . * In one house shall it be eaten ; thou shalt not carry forth aught of the flesh abroad out of the house ; and no bone shall ye break in it . * All the congregation of Israel shall prepare it . * And when a stranger sojourneth with thee , and will prepare the passover to the Lord , let his males be circumcised , and then let him come near and prepare it , and he shall be as one that is born in the land ; but no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof . * One law shall be to him that is home –born , and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you . * And all the children of Israel did so ; as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron , so did they . * And it came to pass on the selfsame day , that the Lord did bring forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies .

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