Exodus Chapter 12

Exodus Chapter 12
1 Then the Lord spake to Moses and to
Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2
This month shall be unto you the
beginning of months: it shall be to you
the first month of the year.
3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of
Israel, saying, In the tenth of this month
let every man take unto him a lamb,
according to the house of the fathers, a
lamb for an house.
4 If the household be too little for the
lamb, he shall take his neighbor, which
is next unto his house, according to the
number of the persons: every one of you,
according to his eating shall make your
count for the lambs, 5 Your lamb shall
be without blemish, a male of a year old:
ye shall take it of the lambs, or of the
kids.
6 And ye shall keep it until the
fourteenth day of this month: then all the
multitude of the congregation of Israel
shall kill it at even.
7 After they shall take of the blood and
strike it on the two posts, and on the
upper door post of the houses where they
shall eat it.
8 And they shall eat the flesh the same
night, roast with fire, and unleavened
bread with sour herbs they shall eat it.
9 Eat not thereof raw, boiled nor sodden
in water, but roast with fire, both his
head, his feet, and his purtenance.
10 And ye shall reserve nothing of it
unto the morning: but that, which
remaineth of it unto the morrow, shall ye
burn with fire.
11 And thus shall ye eat it, your loins
girded, your shoes on your feet, and your
staves in your hands, and ye shall eat it
in haste: for it is the Lord’s Passover.
12 For I will pass through the land of
Egypt the same night, and will smite all
the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both
man and beast, and I will execute
judgment upon all the gods of Egypt. I
am the Lord.
13 And the blood shall be a token for
you upon the houses where ye are: so
when I see the blood, I will pass over
you, and the plague shall not be upon you
to destruction, when I smite the land of
Egypt.
14 And this day shall be unto you a
remembrance: and ye shall keep it an
holy feast unto the Lord, throughout your
generations: ye shall keep it holy by an
ordinance forever.
15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened
bread, and in any case ye shall put away
leaven the first day out of your houses:
for whosoever eateth leavened bread
from the first day until the seventh day,
that person shall be cut off from Israel.
16 And in the first day shall be an holy
assembly: also in the seventh day shall
be an holy assembly unto you: no work
shall be done in them, save about that
which every man must eat: that only may
ye do.
17 Ye shall keep also the feast of
unleavened bread: for that same day I
will bring your armies out of the land of
Egypt: therefore ye shall observe this
day, throughout your posterity, by an
ordinance forever.
18 In the first month and the fourteenth
day of the month at even, ye shall eat
unleavened bread unto the one and
twentieth day of the month at even. 19
Seven days shall no leaven be found in
your houses: for whosoever eateth
leavened bread, that person shall be cut
off from the congregation of Israel:
whether he be a stranger, or born in the
land.
20 Ye shall eat no leavened bread: but
in all your habitations shall ye eat
unleavened bread.
21 Then Moses called all the elders of
Israel, and said unto them, Choose out
and take you for every of your
households a lamb, and kill the
Passover. 22 And take a bunch of
hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in
the basin, and strike the lintel, and the
door cheeks with the blood that is in the
basin, and let none of you go out at the
door of his house, until the morning. 23
For the Lord will pass by to smite the
Egyptians: and when he seeth the blood
upon the lintel and on the two door
cheeks, the Lord will pass over the door,
and will not suffer the destroyer to come
into your houses to plague you. 24
Therefore shall ye observe this thing as
an ordinance both for thee and thy sons
forever.
25 And when ye shall come into the
land, which the Lord will give you, as he
hath promised, then ye shall keep this
service.
26 And when your children ask you,
What service is this ye keep?
27 Then ye shall say, It is the sacrifice
of the Lord’s Passover, which passed
over the houses of the children of Israel
in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians,
and preserved our houses. Then the
people bowed themselves, and
worshiped.
28 So the children of Israel went, and
did as the Lord had commanded Moses
and Aaron: so did they.
29 Now 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 prison, and all the firstborn
of beasts.
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 no house where
there was not one dead.
31 And he called to Moses and to Aaron
by night, and said, Rise up, get you out
from among my people, both ye, and the
children of Israel, and go serve the Lord
as ye have said.
32 Take also your sheep and your cattle
as ye have said, and depart, and bless
me also.
33 And the Egyptians did force the
people, because they would send them
out of the land in haste: for they said, We
die all.
34 Therefore the people took their dough
before it was leavened, even their dough
bound in clothes upon their shoulders.
35 And the children of Israel did
according to the saying of Moses, and
they asked 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: and they
granted their request: so they spoiled the
Egyptians.
37 Then the children of Israel took their
journey from Rameses to Succoth about
six hundred thousand men of foot, beside
children.
38 And a great multitude of sundry sorts
of people went out with them, and sheep,
and beeves, and cattle in great
abundance.
39 And they baked the dough which they
brought out of Egypt, and made
unleavened cakes: for it was not
leavened, because they were thrust out
of Egypt, neither could they tarry, nor yet
prepare themselves victuals. 40 So the
dwelling of the children of Israel, while
they dwelled in Egypt, was four hundred
and thirty years.
41 And when the four hundred and thirty
years were expired, even the self same
day departed all the hosts of the Lord out
of the land of Egypt. 42 It is a night to be
kept holy to the Lord, because he
brought them out of the land of Egypt:
this is that night of the Lord, which all
the children of Israel must keep
throughout their generations.
43 Also the Lord said unto Moses and
Aaron, This is the law of the Passover:
no stranger shall eat thereof.
44 But every servant that is bought for
money, when thou hast circumcised him,
then shall he eat thereof.
45 A stranger or an hired servant shall
not eat thereof.
46 In one house shall it be eaten: thou
shalt carry none of the flesh out of the
house, neither shall ye break a bone
thereof.
47 All the congregation of Israel shall
observe it.
48 But if a stranger dwell with thee, and
will observe the Passover of the Lord,
let him circumcise all the males, that
belong unto him, and then let him come
and observe it, and he shall be as one
that is born in the land: for none
uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
49 One law shall be to him that is born
in the land, and to the stranger that
dwelleth among you.
50 Then all the children of Israel did as
the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron:
so did they.
51 And the self same day did the Lord
bring the children of Israel out of the
land of Egypt by their armies.