Exodus:12

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* Now the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt , saying , * "This month shall be your beginning of months ; it shall be the first month of the year to you . * Speak to all the congregation of Israel , saying : "On the tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb , according to the house of his father , a lamb for a household . * And if the household is too small for the lamb , let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons ; according to each man 's need you shall make your count for the lamb . * Your lamb shall be without blemish , a male of the first year . You may take it from the sheep or from the goats . * Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month . Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight . * And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it . * Then they shall eat the flesh on that night ; roasted in fire , with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it . * Do not eat it raw , nor boiled at all with water , but roasted in fire--its head with its legs and its entrails . * You shall let none of it remain until morning , and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire . * And thus you shall eat it : with a belt on your waist , your sandals on your feet , and your staff in your hand . So you shall eat it in haste . It is the LORD 's Passover . * "For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night , and will strike 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 . * Now the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are . And when I see the blood , I will pass over you ; and the plague shall not be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt . * "So this day shall be to you a memorial ; and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations . You shall keep it as a feast by an everlasting ordinance . * Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread . On the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses . For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day , that person shall be cut off from Israel . * On the first day there shall be a holy convocation , and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you . No manner of work shall be done on them ; but that which everyone must eat--that only may be prepared by you . * So you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread , for on this same day I will have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt . Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an everlasting ordinance . * 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 . * For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses , since whoever eats what is leavened , that same person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel , whether he is a stranger or a native of the land . * You shall eat nothing leavened ; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread ."' * Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them , "Pick out and take lambs for yourselves according to your families , and kill the Passover lamb . * And you shall take a bunch of hyssop , dip it in the blood that is in the basin , and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin . And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning . * For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians ; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts , the LORD will pass over the door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you . * And you shall observe this thing as an ordinance for you and your sons forever . * It will come to pass when you come to the land which the LORD will give you , just as He promised , that you shall keep this service . * And it shall be , when your children say to you , "What do you mean by this service ?' * that you shall say , "It is the Passover sacrifice of the LORD , who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our households ."' So the people bowed their heads and worshiped . * Then the children of Israel went away and did so ; just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron , so they did . * And it came to pass at midnight that the LORD struck all 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 dungeon , and all the firstborn of livestock . * So Pharaoh rose in the night , he , 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 . * Then he called for Moses and Aaron by night , and said , "Rise , go out from among my people , both you and the children of Israel . And go , serve the LORD as you have said . * Also take your flocks and your herds , as you have said , and be gone ; and bless me also ." * And the Egyptians urged the people , that they might send them out of the land in haste . For they said , "We shall all be dead ." * So the people took their dough before it was leavened , having their kneading bowls bound up in their clothes on their shoulders . * Now the children of Israel had done according to the word of Moses , and they had asked from the Egyptians articles of silver , articles of gold , and clothing . * And the LORD had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians , so that they granted them what they requested . Thus they plundered the Egyptians . * Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth , about six hundred thousand men on foot , besides children . * A mixed multitude went up with them also , and flocks and herds--a great deal of livestock . * And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they had brought out of Egypt ; for it was not leavened , because they were driven out of Egypt and could not wait , nor had they prepared provisions for themselves . * Now the sojourn of the children of Israel who lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years . * And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years--on that very same day--it came to pass that all the armies of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt . * It is a night of solemn observance to the LORD for bringing them out of the land of Egypt . This is that night of the LORD , a solemn observance for all the children of Israel throughout their generations . * And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron , "This is the ordinance of the Passover : No foreigner shall eat it . * But every man 's servant who is bought for money , when you have circumcised him , then he may eat it . * A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat it . * In one house it shall be eaten ; you shall not carry any of the flesh outside the house , nor shall you break one of its bones . * All the congregation of Israel shall keep it . * And when a stranger dwells with you and wants to 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 a native of the land . For no uncircumcised person shall eat it . * One law shall be for the native-born and for the stranger who dwells among you ." * Thus all the children of Israel did ; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron , so they did . * And it came to pass , on that very same day , that the LORD brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt according to their armies .

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