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 beginning of months : it shall be the first month of the year to you . * Speak all of you unto all the congregation of Israel , saying , In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb , according to the house of their fathers , a lamb for an house : * And if the household be too little for the lamb , let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls ; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb . * Your lamb shall be without blemish , a male of the first year : all of you shall take it out from the sheep , or from the goats : * And all of you shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month : and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening . * And they shall take of the blood , and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses , wherein they shall eat it . * And they shall eat the flesh in that night , roast with fire , and unleavened bread ; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it . * Eat not of it raw , nor sodden at all with water , but roast with fire ; his head with his legs , and with the inwards thereof . * And all of you shall let nothing of it remain until the morning ; and that which remains of it until the morning all of you shall burn with fire . * And thus shall all of you eat it ; with your loins girded , your shoes on your feet , and your staff in your hand ; and all of you shall eat it in haste : it is the LORD 's passover . * For I will pass through the land of Egypt this 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 . * And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where all of you are : and when I see the blood , I will pass over you , and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you , when I strike the land of Egypt . * And this day shall be unto you for a memorial ; and all of you shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations ; all of you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever . * Seven days shall all of you eat unleavened bread ; even the first day all of you shall put away leaven out of your houses : for whosoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day , that soul shall be cut off from Israel . * And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation , and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you ; no manner of work shall be done in them , save that which every man must eat , that only may be done of you . * And all of you shall observe the feast of unleavened bread ; for in this very same day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt : therefore shall all of you observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever . * In the first month , on the fourteenth day of the month at even , all of you shall eat unleavened bread , until the one and twentieth day of the month at even . * Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses : for whosoever eats that which is leavened , even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel , whether he be a stranger , or born in the land . * All of you shall eat nothing leavened ; in all your habitations shall all of you eat unleavened bread . * Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel , and said unto them , Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families , and kill the passover . * And all of 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 at the door of his house until the morning . * For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians ; and when he sees 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 strike you . * And all of you shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons for ever . * And it shall come to pass , when all of you be come to the land which the LORD will give you , according as he has promised , that all of you shall keep this service . * And it shall come to pass , when your children shall say unto you , What mean all of you by this service ? * That all of you shall say , It is the sacrifice of the LORD 's passover , who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt , when he stroke the Egyptians , and delivered our houses . And the people bowed the head and worshipped . * 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 , that at midnight the LORD stroke all the firstborn in the land of Egypt , from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon ; and all the firstborn 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 one dead . * And he called for Moses and Aaron by night , and said , Rise up , and get you forth from among my people , both all of you and the children of Israel ; and go , serve the LORD , as all of you have said . * Also take your flocks and your herds , as all of you have said , and be gone ; and bless me also . * And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people , that they might send them out of the land in haste ; for they said , We be all dead men . * And the people took their dough before it was leavened , their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders . * And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses ; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver , and jewels of gold , and raiment : * And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians , so that they lent unto them such things as they required . And they spoiled the Egyptians . * And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth , about six hundred thousand on foot that were men , beside children . * And a mixed multitude went up also with them ; and flocks , and herds , even very much cattle . * And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt , for it was not leavened ; because they were thrust out of Egypt , and could not tarry , neither had they prepared for themselves any victual . * Now the sojourning of the children of Israel , who dwelt in Egypt , was four hundred and thirty years . * And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years , even the very same day it came to pass , that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt . * It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt : this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations . * And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron , This is the ordinance of the passover : There shall no stranger eat thereof : * But every man 's servant that is bought for money , when you have circumcised him , then shall he eat thereof . * A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof . * In one house shall it be eaten ; you shall not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house ; neither shall all of you break a bone thereof . * All the congregation of Israel shall keep it . * And when a stranger shall sojourn with you , and will 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 one that is born in the land : for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof . * One law shall be to him that is native , and unto the stranger that sojourns among you . * Thus did all the children of Israel ; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron , so did they . * And it came to pass the very same day , that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies .

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