12:1 Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of ①Egypt,
▷ ①Lit Egypt, saying
12:2 “This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year for you.
12:3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are, each one, to take a ①lamb for themselves, according to the fathers’ households, a ②lamb for ③each household.
▷ ①Or kid ②Or kid ③Lit the
12:4 Now if the household is too small for a ①lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the ②number of persons in them; in proportion to ③what each one should eat, you are to ④divide the lamb.
▷ ①Or kid ②Or amount ③Lit each man’s eating ④Lit compute for
12:5 Your ①lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
▷ ①Or kid
12:6 ①You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to slaughter it ②at twilight.
▷ ①Lit It shall be to you for a guarding ②Lit between the two evenings
12:7 Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel ①of the houses in which they eat it.
▷ ①Lit upon
12:8 They shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread ①and bitter herbs.
▷ ①Lit in addition to
12:9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with its entrails.
12:10 And you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall completely burn with fire.
12:11 Now you shall eat it in this way: with your garment ①belted around your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in a hurry—it is the LORD’S Passover.
▷ ①I.e., for travel
12:12 For I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and fatally strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the human firstborn to animals; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments—I am the LORD.
12:13 The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you ①live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will come upon you ②to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
▷ ①Lit are ②Lit for destruction
12:14 ‘Now this day shall be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as ①a permanent ordinance.
▷ ①Or an eternal
12:15 For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove dough with yeast from your houses; for whoever eats anything with yeast from the first day until the seventh day, that ①person shall be cut off from Israel.
▷ ①Lit soul
12:16 And on 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 for what must be eaten by every person—that alone may be ①prepared by you.
▷ ①Lit done
12:17 You shall also keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your ①multitudes out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall keep this day throughout your generations as a ②permanent ordinance.
▷ ①Lit armies ②Or eternal
12:18 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.
12:19 For seven days there shall be no dough with yeast found in your houses; for whoever eats anything with yeast, that ①person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a native of the land.
▷ ①Lit soul
12:20 You shall not eat anything with yeast; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’ ”
12:21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and take for yourselves ①lambs according to your families, and slaughter the Passover lamb.
▷ ①Lit sheep
12:22 And you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and ①apply 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.
▷ ①Lit cause to touch
12:23 For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians; but when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.
12:24 And you shall keep this event as an ordinance for you and your children forever.
12:25 When you enter the land which the LORD will give you, as He has ①promised, you shall keep this ②rite.
▷ ①Lit spoken ②Lit service
12:26 And when your children say to you, ‘ ①What does this rite mean to you?’
▷ ①Lit What is this service to you?
12:27 then you shall say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice to the LORD because He passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians, but ①spared our homes.’ ” And the people bowed low and worshiped.
▷ ①Lit delivered
12:28 Then the sons of Israel went and did so; just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
12:29 Now it came about at midnight that the LORD struck all the 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 cattle.
12:30 And Pharaoh got up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no home where there was not someone dead.
12:31 Then he called for Moses and Aaron at night and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the sons of Israel; and go, ①worship the LORD, as you have said.
▷ ①Or serve
12:32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and bless me also.”
12:33 The Egyptians urged the people, to send them out of the land in a hurry, for they said, “We will all be dead.”
12:34 So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls bound up in the clothes on their shoulders.
12:35 Now 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;
12:36 and the LORD had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have their request. Therefore they plundered the Egyptians.
12:37 Now the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, aside from children.
12:38 A mixed multitude also went up with them, ①along with flocks and herds, a very large number of livestock.
▷ ①Lit and
12:39 And they baked the dough which they had brought out of Egypt into cakes of unleavened bread. For it had no yeast, since they were driven out of Egypt and could not delay, nor had they ①prepared any provisions for themselves.
▷ ①Lit made
12:40 Now the time ①that the sons of Israel had lived in Egypt was 430 years.
▷ ①Or of the sons of Israel who lived
12:41 And at the end of 430 years, on this very day, all the ①multitudes of the LORD departed from the land of Egypt.
▷ ①Lit armies
12:42 It is a night ①to be observed for the LORD, for having brought them out of the land of Egypt; this night is for the LORD, ②to be observed by all the sons of Israel throughout their generations.
▷ ①Or of vigil ②Or of vigil
12:43 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover: no ①foreigner is to eat it;
▷ ①Lit son of a stranger
12:44 but as for every slave ①that someone has purchased with money, after you have circumcised him, then he may eat it.
▷ ①Lit of a man, an acquisition of money
12:45 A stranger or a hired worker shall not eat it.
12:46 It is to be eaten in a single house; you are not to bring any of the meat outside of the house, nor are you to break any bone of it.
12:47 All the congregation of Israel are to ①celebrate this.
▷ ①Lit perform
12:48 But if a stranger resides with you and ①celebrates the Passover to the LORD, all of his males are to be circumcised, and then he shall come near to ②celebrate it; and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised male may eat it.
▷ ①Lit performs ②Lit perform
12:49 ①The same law shall ②apply to the native as to the stranger who resides among you.”
▷ ①Lit One law ②Lit be
12:50 Then all the sons of Israel did so; they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.
12:51 And on that very day the LORD brought the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt according to their ①multitudes.
▷ ①I.e., multitudes in battle formation