EX-12:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of
Egypt, saying,
EX-12:2 This month [shall be] unto you the beginning of months:
it [shall be]
the first month of the year to you.
EX-12:3 Speak ye 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:
EX-12:4 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.
EX-12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first
year: ye
shall take [it] out from the sheep, or from the goats:
EX-12:6 And ye 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.
EX-12:7 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.
EX-12:8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with
fire, and
unleavened bread; [and] with bitter [herbs] they shall eat it.
EX-12:9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but
roast [with]
fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
EX-12:10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the
morning; and that
which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
EX-12:11 And thus shall ye eat it; [with] your loins girded,
your shoes on
your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in
haste: it [is]
the LORD'S passover.
EX-12:12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night,
and will smite
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.
EX-12:13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the
houses where ye
[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 smite the land of Egypt.
EX-12:14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye
shall keep it
a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep
it a feast by
an ordinance for ever.
EX-12:15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the
first day ye
shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth
leavened bread
from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut
off from
Israel.
EX-12:16 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.
EX-12:17 And ye shall observe [the feast of] unleavened bread;
for in this
selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt:
therefore
shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance
for ever.
EX-12:18 In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the
month at even, ye
shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of
the month at
even.
EX-12:19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your
houses: for
whosoever eateth 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.
EX-12:20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations
shall ye eat
unleavened bread.
EX-12:21 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.
EX-12:22 And ye 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.
EX-12:23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians;
and when he
seeth 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 smite [you].
EX-12:24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to
thee and to thy
sons for ever.
EX-12:25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land
which the
LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall
keep this
service.
EX-12:26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall
say unto you,
What mean ye by this service?
EX-12:27 That ye 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 smote the
Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the
head and
worshipped.
EX-12:28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the
LORD had
commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
EX-12:29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote
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.
EX-12:30 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.
EX-12:31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said,
Rise up, [and]
get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of
Israel; and
go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
EX-12:32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said,
and be gone;
and bless me also.
EX-12:33 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].
EX-12:34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened,
their
kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their
shoulders.
EX-12:35 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:
EX-12:36 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.
EX-12:37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to
Succoth, about
six hundred thousand on foot [that were] men, beside children.
EX-12:38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and
flocks, and herds,
[even] very much cattle.
EX-12:39 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.
EX-12:40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who
dwelt in Egypt,
[was] four hundred and thirty years.
EX-12:41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and
thirty years,
even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the
LORD went out
from the land of Egypt.
EX-12:42 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.
EX-12:43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This [is] the
ordinance of
the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
EX-12:44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when
thou hast
circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
EX-12:45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
EX-12:46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry
forth ought of
the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone
thereof.
EX-12:47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
EX-12:48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, 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.
EX-12:49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the
stranger that
sojourneth among you.
EX-12:50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD
commanded Moses and
Aaron, so did they.
EX-12:51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, [that] the LORD
did bring the
children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
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