Welcome to our website where we explore the Bible! Pleasure to meet you here!
May your journey into the world of the Holy Scriptures be engaging and inspiring!
You can change reading language: uk ru
Parallel
New Living Translation
New King James Version
The First Passover
While the Israelites were still in the land of Egypt, the LORD gave the following instructions to Moses and Aaron:
While the Israelites were still in the land of Egypt, the LORD gave the following instructions to Moses and Aaron:
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,
“From now on, this month will be the first month of the year for you.
“This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Announce to the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each family must choose a lamb or a young goat for a sacrifice, one animal for each household.
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 a family is too small to eat a whole animal, let them share with another family in the neighborhood. Divide the animal according to the size of each family and how much they can 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 animal you select must be a one-year-old male, either a sheep or a goat, with no defects.
“Take special care of this chosen animal until the evening of the fourteenth day of this first month. Then the whole assembly of the community of Israel must slaughter their lamb or young goat 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.
They are to take some of the blood and smear it on the sides and top of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the animal.
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 must roast the meat over a fire and eat it along with bitter salad greens 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 any of the meat raw or boiled in water. The whole animal — including the head, legs, and internal organs — must be roasted over a fire.
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 until the next morning. Burn whatever is not eaten before morning.
You shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire.
On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn son and firstborn male animal in the land of Egypt. I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt, for 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.
But the blood on your doorposts will serve as a sign, marking the houses where you are staying. When I see the blood, I will pass over you. This plague of death will not touch you when I strike the land of 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 to remember. Each year, from generation to generation, you must celebrate it as a special festival to the LORD. This is a law for all time.
‘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 the bread you eat must be made without yeast. On the first day of the festival, remove every trace of yeast from your homes. Anyone who eats bread made with yeast during the seven days of the festival will be cut off from the community of Israel.
On the first day of the festival and again on the seventh day, all the people must observe an official day for holy assembly. No work of any kind may be done on these days except in the preparation of food.
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 this Festival of Unleavened Bread, for it will remind you that I brought your forces out of the land of Egypt on this very day. This festival will be a permanent law for you; celebrate this day from generation to generation.
The bread you eat must be made without yeast from the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month until the evening of the twenty-first day of that month.
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.
During those seven days, there must be no trace of yeast in your homes. Anyone who eats anything made with yeast during this week will be cut off from the community of Israel. These regulations apply both to the foreigners living among you and to the native-born Israelites.
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.
During those days you must not eat anything made with yeast. Wherever you live, eat only bread made without yeast.”
You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’ ”
Then Moses called all the elders of Israel together and said to them, “Go, pick out a lamb or young goat for each of your families, and slaughter the Passover animal.
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.
Drain the blood into a basin. Then take a bundle of hyssop branches and dip it into the blood. Brush the hyssop across the top and sides of the doorframes of your houses. And no one may go out through the door 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.
For the LORD will pass through the land to strike down the Egyptians. But when he sees the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe, the LORD will pass over your home. He will not permit his death angel to enter your house and strike you down.
“Remember, these instructions are a permanent law that you and your descendants must observe forever.
And you shall observe this thing as an ordinance for you and your sons forever.
When you enter the land the LORD has promised to give you, you will continue to 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.
Then your children will ask, ‘What does this ceremony mean?’
And it shall be, when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’
And you will reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, for he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt. And though he struck the Egyptians, he spared our families.’” When Moses had finished speaking, all the people bowed down to the ground 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.
So the people of Israel did just as the LORD had commanded through 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.
And that night at midnight, the LORD struck down all the firstborn sons in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn son of the prisoner in the dungeon. Even the firstborn of their livestock were killed.
Pharaoh and all his officials and all the people of Egypt woke up during the night, and loud wailing was heard throughout the land of Egypt. There was not a single house where someone had not died.
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.
Israel’s Exodus from Egypt
Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron during the night. “Get out!” he ordered. “Leave my people — and take the rest of the Israelites with you! Go and 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 said, and be gone. Go, but bless me as you leave.”
Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also.”
All the Egyptians urged the people of Israel to get out of the land as quickly as possible, for they thought, “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.”
The Israelites took their bread dough before yeast was added. They wrapped their kneading boards in their cloaks and carried them on their shoulders.
So the people took their dough before it was leavened, having their kneading bowls bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.
And the people of Israel did as Moses had instructed; they asked the Egyptians for clothing and articles of silver and gold.
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 caused the Egyptians to look favorably on the Israelites, and they gave the Israelites whatever they asked for. So they stripped the Egyptians of their wealth!
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 rabble of non-Israelites went with them, along with great flocks and herds of livestock.
A mixed multitude went up with them also, and flocks and herds — a great deal of livestock.
For bread they baked flat cakes from the dough without yeast they had brought from Egypt. It was made without yeast because the people were driven out of Egypt in such a hurry that they had no time to prepare the bread or other food.
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.
In fact, it was on the last day of the 430th year that all the LORD’s forces left the land.
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.
On this night the LORD kept his promise to bring his people out of the land of Egypt. So this night belongs to him, and it must be commemorated every year by all the Israelites, from generation to generation.
Instructions for the Passover
Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “These are the instructions for the festival of Passover. No outsiders are allowed to eat the Passover meal.
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.
But any slave who has been purchased may eat it if he has been circumcised.
But every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then he may eat it.
Temporary residents and hired servants may not eat it.
A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat it.
Each Passover lamb must be eaten in one house. Do not carry any of its meat outside, and do not break any of its 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 this Passover festival.
All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
“If there are foreigners living among you who want to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, let all their males be circumcised. Only then may they celebrate the Passover with you like any native-born Israelite. But no uncircumcised male may ever eat the Passover meal.
This instruction applies to everyone, whether a native-born Israelite or a foreigner living among you.”
One law shall be for the native-born and for the stranger who dwells among you.”
So all the people of Israel followed all the LORD’s commands to Moses and Aaron.
Thus all the children of Israel did; as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.