1 Now the Loʀᴅ said to Moses and Aaron in the land of 1Lit Egypt, sayingEgypt, 2 “AEx 13:4; 23:15; 34:18; Deut 16:1This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you. 3  “Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a 1Or kidlamb for themselves, according to their fathers’ households, a 1Or kidlamb for 2Lit theeach household. 4  ‘Now if the household is too small for a 1Or kidlamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the 2Or amountnumber of persons in them; according to 3Lit each man’s eatingwhat each man should eat, you are to 4Lit compute fordivide the lamb. 5  ‘Your 1Or kidlamb shall be ALev 22:18-21; 23:12; Heb 9:14; 1 Pet 1:19an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 6  ‘1Lit It shall be to you for a guardingYou shall keep it until the AEx 12:14, 17; Lev 23:5; Num 9:1-3, 11; 28:16fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it 2Lit between the two eveningsBEx 16:12; Deut 16:4, 6at twilight. 7  ‘AEx 12:22Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel 1Lit uponof the houses in which they eat it. 8  ‘They shall eat the flesh AEx 34:25; Num 9:12that same night, BDeut 16:7roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with CDeut 16:3, 4; 1 Cor 5:8unleavened bread 1Lit in addition toDNum 9:11and bitter herbs. 9  ‘Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather AEx 12:8roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with BEx 29:13, 17, 22its entrails. 10  ‘AEx 16:19; 23:18; 34:25And you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn with fire. 11  ‘Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste—it is AEx 12:13, 21, 27, 43the Loʀᴅ’s Passover. 12  ‘For AEx 11:4, 5I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and BNum 33:4; Ps 82:1against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments—CEx 6:2I am the Loʀᴅ. 13  ‘AHeb 11:28The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you 1Lit arelive; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you 2Lit for destructionto destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

14 ‘Now AEx 12:6; Lev 23:4, 5; 2 Kin 23:21this day will be BEx 13:9a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the Loʀᴅ; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as 1Or an eternalCEx 12:17, 24; 13:10a permanent ordinance. 15  ‘AEx 13:6, 7; 23:15; 34:18; Lev 23:6; Num 28:17; Deut 16:3, 8Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall 1Lit cause to ceaseremove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, BGen 17:14; Ex 12:19; Num 9:13that 2Lit soulperson shall be cut off from Israel. 16  ‘ALev 23:7, 8; Num 28:18, 25On the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and another holy assembly on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten 1Lit pertaining toby every person, that alone may be 2Lit doneprepared by you. 17  ‘You shall also observe ADeut 16:3-8the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this BEx 12:41very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as CEx 12:14; 13:3, 10a 1Or eternalpermanent ordinance. 18  ‘AEx 12:2; Lev 23:5-8; Num 28:16-25In 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. 19  ‘AEx 12:15; 23:15; 34:18Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that 1Lit soulBNum 9:13person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land. 20  ‘You shall not eat anything leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’ ”

21 Then ANum 9:4; Heb 11:28Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “1Lit Draw outGo and BEx 12:3take for yourselves 2Lit sheeplambs according to your families, and slay CEx 12:11the Passover lamb. 22  “AEx 12:7You shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and 1Lit cause to touchapply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts; and none of you shall go outside the door of his house until morning.

23  “For AEx 11:4; 12:12, 13the Loʀᴅ will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Loʀᴅ will pass over the door and will BRev 7:3; 9:4not allow the C1 Cor 10:10; Heb 11:28destroyer to come in to your houses to smite you. 24  “And AEx 12:14, 17; 13:5, 10you shall observe this event as an ordinance for you and your children forever. 25  “When you enter the land which the Loʀᴅ will give you, as He has 1Lit spokenpromised, you shall observe this 2Lit servicerite. 26  “AEx 10:2; 13:8, 14, 15; Deut 32:7; Josh 4:6; Ps 78:6And when your children say to you, ‘1Lit What is this service to you?What does this rite mean to you?’ 27 you shall say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice to AEx 12:11the Loʀᴅ 1Lit because Hewho passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but 2Lit deliveredspared our homes.’ ” BEx 4:31And the people bowed low and worshiped.

28 Then the sons of Israel went and did so; just as the Loʀᴅ had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

29 Now it came about at AEx 11:4, 5midnight that BNum 8:17; 33:4; Ps 135:8; 136:10the Loʀᴅ struck all CEx 4:23; Ps 78:51; 105:36the 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 DEx 9:6cattle. 30 Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was AEx 11:6a great cry in Egypt, for there was no home where there was not someone dead. 31 Then AEx 8:8he called for Moses and Aaron at night and said, “Rise up, BEx 8:25get out from among my people, both you and the sons of Israel; and go, 1Or serveworship the Loʀᴅ, as you have said. 32  “Take AEx 10:9, 26both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and bless me also.”

33 AEx 10:7; 11:1; 12:39; Ps 105:38The Egyptians urged the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We will all be dead.” 34 So the people took AEx 12:39their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls bound up in the clothes on their shoulders.

35 AEx 3:21, 22; 11:2, 3; Ps 105:37Now the sons of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, for they had requested from the Egyptians articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing; 36 and the Loʀᴅ had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have their request. Thus they AEx 3:22plundered the Egyptians.

37 Now the ANum 33:3, 5sons of Israel journeyed from BGen 47:11Rameses to Succoth, about CEx 38:26; Num 1:46; 2:32; 11:21; 26:51six hundred thousand men on foot, aside from children. 38 A ANum 11:4mixed multitude also went up with them, 1Lit andalong with flocks and herds, a BEx 17:3; Num 20:19; 32:1; Deut 3:19very large number of livestock. 39 They baked the dough which they had brought out of Egypt into cakes of unleavened bread. For it had not become leavened, since they were AEx 6:1; 11:1; 12:31-33driven out of Egypt and could not delay, nor had they 1Lit madeprepared any provisions for themselves.

40 Now the time 1Or of the sons of Israel who dweltthat the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was AGen 15:13, 16; Acts 7:6; Gal 3:17four hundred and thirty years. 41 And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, 1Lit that it happened on this very dayto AEx 12:17the very day, BEx 3:8, 10; 6:6all the hosts of the Loʀᴅ went out from the land of Egypt.

42 AEx 13:10; 34:18; Deut 16:1It is a night 1Or of vigilto be observed for the Loʀᴅ for having brought them out from the land of Egypt; this night is for the Loʀᴅ, 1Or of vigilto be observed 2Lit to the sonsby all the sons of Israel throughout their generations.

43 The Loʀᴅ said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of AEx 12:11; Num 9:14the Passover: no 1Lit son of a strangerBEx 12:48foreigner is to eat of it; 44 but every man’s AGen 17:12, 13; Lev 22:11slave purchased with money, after you have circumcised him, then he may eat of it. 45  “ALev 22:10A sojourner or a hired servant shall not eat of it. 46  “It is to be eaten in a single house; you are not to bring forth any of the flesh outside of the house, ANum 9:12; Ps 34:20; John 19:33, 36nor are you to break any bone of it. 47  “AEx 12:6; Num 9:13, 14All the congregation of Israel are to 1Lit docelebrate this. 48  “But ANum 9:14if a 1Lit sojournerstranger sojourns with you, and 2Lit doescelebrates the Passover to the Loʀᴅ, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near to 3Lit docelebrate it; and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat of it. 49  “1Lit One lawALev 24:22; Num 15:15, 16, 29The same law shall 2Lit beapply to the native as to the 3Lit sojournerstranger who sojourns among you.”

50 Then all the sons of Israel did so; they did just as the Loʀᴅ had commanded Moses and Aaron. 51 And on that same day AEx 12:41the Loʀᴅ brought the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt 1Lit according toBEx 6:26by their hosts.