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The Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt,
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt,
The Passover Instituted
Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
“This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.
“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.
If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat.
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.
The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats.
Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.
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.
Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.
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.
That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast.
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 the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire — with the head, legs and internal organs.
Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire — its head with its legs and its entrails.
Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it.
You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire.
This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover.
“On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord.
‘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.
The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.
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.
“This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord — a lasting ordinance.
‘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.
For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.
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.
“Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.
In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
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 yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel.
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.
Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread.”
You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’ ”
Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.
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.
Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning.
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.
When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
“Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants.
And you shall observe this thing as an ordinance for you and your sons forever.
When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony.
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 when your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’
And it shall be, when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’
then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’ ” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.
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.
The Israelites did just what the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.
Then the children of Israel went away and did so; just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well.
Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.
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.
The Exodus
During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the Lord as you have requested.
During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the Lord as you have requested.
The Exodus
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.
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.
Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me.”
Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also.”
The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country. “For otherwise,” they said, “we will all die!”
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 the yeast was added, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing.
So the people took their dough before it was leavened, having their kneading bowls bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.
The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing.
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.
The Lord had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.
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.
The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.
Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children.
Many other people went up with them, and also large droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.
A mixed multitude went up with them also, and flocks and herds — a great deal of livestock.
With the dough the Israelites had brought from Egypt, they baked loaves of unleavened bread. The dough was without yeast because they had been driven out of Egypt and did not have time to prepare food for themselves.
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.
At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the Lord’s divisions left Egypt.
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.
Because the Lord kept vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the Lord for the generations to come.
Passover Restrictions
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “These are the regulations for the Passover meal:
“No foreigner may eat it.
The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “These are the regulations for the Passover meal:
“No foreigner may eat it.
Passover Regulations
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover: No foreigner shall eat it.
And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover: No foreigner shall eat it.
Any slave you have bought may eat it after you have circumcised him,
But every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he may eat it.
but a temporary resident or a hired worker may not eat it.
A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat it.
“It must be eaten inside the house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones.
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.
The whole community of Israel must celebrate it.
All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
“A foreigner residing among you who wants to celebrate the Lord’s Passover must have all the males in his household circumcised; then he may take part like one born in the land. No uncircumcised male may eat it.
The same law applies both to the native-born and to the foreigner residing among you.”
One law shall be for the native-born and for the stranger who dwells among you.”
All the Israelites did just what the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.
Thus all the children of Israel did; as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.