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And the
Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of
Egypt saying,
02 This month shall be unto you the
beginning of months: it shall be the first month
of the year to you.
03 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:
04 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.
05 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a
male of the first year: ye shall take it out from
the sheep, or from the goats:
06 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.
07 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.
08 And they shall eat the flesh in that
night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and
with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
09 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 bason, and
strike the lintel and the two side posts with the
blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall
go out at the door of his house until the
morning.
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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 favour 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.
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.
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