Exodus 12 — Chapter 12

¹And Yahuah (LORD) spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

²This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

³Speak you unto all the congregation of Yashar'el (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:

⁴And 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.

⁵Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: you shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:

⁶And you shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Yashar'el (Israel) shall kill it in the evening.

⁷And 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.

⁸And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

⁹Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.

¹⁰And you shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.

¹¹And thus shall you eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’S passover.

¹²For 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 Yahuah (LORD).

¹³And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you 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.

¹⁴And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and you shall keep it a feast to Yahuah (LORD) throughout your generations; you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.

¹⁵Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Yashar'el (Israel).

¹⁶And 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.

¹⁷And you 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 you observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.

¹⁸In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.

¹⁹Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eats that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Yashar'el (Israel), whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.

²⁰You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall you eat unleavened bread.

²¹Then Moses called for all the elders of Yashar'el (Israel), and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.

²²And you 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.

²³For Yahuah (LORD) will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, Yahuah (LORD) will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.

²⁴And you shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons for ever.

²⁵And it shall come to pass, when you be come to the land which Yahuah (LORD) will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.

²⁶And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean you by this service?

²⁷That you shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD’S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Yashar'el (Israel) in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.

²⁸And the children of Yashar'el (Israel) went away, and did as Yahuah (LORD) had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.

²⁹And it came to pass, that at midnight Yahuah (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.

³⁰And 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.

³¹And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both you and the children of Yashar'el (Israel); and go, serve Yahuah (LORD), as you have said.

³²Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also.

³³And 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.

³⁴And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.

³⁵And the children of Yashar'el (Israel) did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:

³⁶And Yahuah (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.

³⁷And the children of Yashar'el (Israel) journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.

³⁸And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.

³⁹And 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.

⁴⁰Now the sojourning of the children of Yashar'el (Israel), who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

⁴¹And 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 Yahuah (LORD) went out from the land of Egypt.

⁴²It is a night to be much observed unto Yahuah (LORD) for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of Yahuah (LORD) to be observed of all the children of Yashar'el (Israel) in their generations.

⁴³And Yahuah (LORD) said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:

⁴⁴But every man’s servant that is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.

⁴⁵A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.

⁴⁶In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall you break a bone thereof.

⁴⁷All the congregation of Yashar'el (Israel) shall keep it.

⁴⁸And when a stranger shall sojourn with you, and will keep the passover to Yahuah (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.

⁴⁹One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourns among you.

⁵⁰Thus did all the children of Yashar'el (Israel); as Yahuah (LORD) commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.

⁵¹And it came to pass the selfsame day, that Yahuah (LORD) did bring the children of Yashar'el (Israel) out of the land of Egypt by their armies.