| Chapter
12 |
1 | And
the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying, |
2 | This month shall be unto you the
beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. |
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: |
4 | And if the
household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor 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. |
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: |
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. |
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. |
8 | And they shall eat the
flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter
herbs they shall eat it. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
20 | Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all
your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
24 | And ye shall observe this thing
for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. |
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. |
26 |
And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye
by this service? |
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. |
28 | And the children of Israel
went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
32 | Also take your flocks and your
herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also. |
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. |
34 | And
the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being
bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. |
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: |
36 |
And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they
lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the
Egyptians. |
37 | And the
children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred
thousand on foot that were men, beside children. |
38 | And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and
flocks, and herds, even very much cattle. |
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. |
40 | Now the
sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and
thirty years. |
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. |
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. |
43 |
And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover:
There shall no stranger eat thereof: |
44 | But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast
circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof. |
45 | A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat
thereof. |
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.
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47 | All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. |
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. |
49 | One law shall be to him
that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you. |
50 | Thus did all the children of
Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they. |
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. |