Exodus:12:1-51
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Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt ,
saying ,
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This month shall be to you the beginning of months .
It shall be the first month of the year to you .
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Speak to all the congregation of Israel ,
saying , '
On 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 ;
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and if the household is 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 what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb .
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Your lamb shall be without blemish ,
a male a year old .
You shall take it from the sheep ,
or from the goats :
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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 .
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They shall take some of the blood ,
and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel ,
on the houses in which they shall eat it .
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They shall eat the flesh in that night ,
roasted with fire ,
and unleavened bread .
They shall eat it with bitter herbs .
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Don '
t eat it raw ,
nor boiled at all with water ,
but roasted with fire ;
with its head ,
its legs and its inner parts .
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You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning ;
but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire .
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This is how you shall eat it :
with your belt on your waist ,
your shoes on your feet ,
and your staff in your hand ;
and you shall eat it in haste :
it is Yahweh '
s Passover .
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For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night ,
and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt ,
both man and animal .
Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments :
I am Yahweh .
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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 no plague be on you to destroy you ,
when I strike the land of Egypt .
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This day shall be to you for a memorial ,
and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh :
throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever .
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Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread ;
even the first day you shall put away yeast 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 .
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In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation ,
and in the seventh day a holy convocation ;
no kind of work shall be done in them ,
except that which every man must eat ,
that only may be done by you .
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You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread ;
for in this same day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt :
therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever .
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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 .
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There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days ,
for whoever eats that which is leavened ,
that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel ,
whether he be a foreigner ,
or one who is born in the land .
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You shall eat nothing leavened .
In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread .'"
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Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel ,
and said to them , "
Draw out ,
and take lambs according to your families ,
and kill the Passover .
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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 doorposts with the blood that is in the basin ;
and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning .
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For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians ;
and when he sees the blood on the lintel ,
and on the two doorposts ,
Yahweh will pass over the door ,
and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you .
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You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever .
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It shall happen when you have come to the land which Yahweh will give you ,
according as he has promised ,
that you shall keep this service .
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It will happen ,
when your children ask you , '
What do you mean by this service ?'
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that you shall say , '
It is the sacrifice of Yahweh '
s Passover ,
who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt ,
when he struck the Egyptians ,
and spared our houses .'"
The people bowed their heads and worshiped .
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The children of Israel went and did so ;
as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron ,
so they did .
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It happened at midnight ,
that Yahweh 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 .
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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 .
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He called for Moses and Aaron by night ,
and said , "
Rise up ,
get out from among my people ,
both you and the children of Israel ;
and go ,
serve Yahweh ,
as you have said !
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Take both your flocks and your herds ,
as you have said ,
and be gone ;
and bless me also !"
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The Egyptians were urgent with the people ,
to send them out of the land in haste ,
for they said , "
We are all dead men ."
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The people took their dough before it was leavened ,
their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders .
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The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses ;
and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver ,
and jewels of gold ,
and clothing .
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Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians ,
so that they let them have what they asked .
They despoiled the Egyptians .
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The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth ,
about six hundred thousand on foot who were men ,
besides children .
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A mixed multitude went up also with them ,
with flocks ,
herds ,
and even very much livestock .
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They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt ;
for it wasn '
t leavened ,
because they were thrust out of Egypt ,
and couldn '
t wait ,
neither had they prepared for themselves any food .
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Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years .
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It happened at the end of four hundred thirty years ,
even the same day it happened ,
that all the armies of Yahweh went out from the land of Egypt .
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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 children of Israel throughout their generations .
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Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron , "
This is the ordinance of the Passover .
No foreigner shall eat of it ,
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but every man '
s servant who is bought for money ,
when you have circumcised him ,
then shall he eat of it .
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A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it .
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In one house shall it be eaten ;
you shall not carry out anything of the flesh abroad out of the house ;
neither shall you break a bone of it .
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All the congregation of Israel shall keep it .
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When a stranger shall live as a foreigner 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 who is born in the land :
but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it .
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One law shall be to him who is born at home ,
and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you ."
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All the children of Israel did so .
As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron ,
so they did .
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It happened the same day ,
that Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies .
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