Exodus 12

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying. ² "This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first for you of the months of the year. ³ Speak to the whole congregation of the sons of Israel, saying: On the tenth of this month they shall take for themselves, each man a flockling according to the their fathers' house, a flockling for each household. ⁴ If the household be too few for what comes from a flockling, then he and his neighbor next to his house will take it according to the assessment of the souls. Each one corresponding to his eating shall you assess with the flockling. ⁵ A flawless flockling, a year old male, shall you come to have. From the he-lambs or from the goats shall you take it. ⁶ And it will become a charge of yours until the fourteenth day of this month. They will slay it, every assembly of the congregation of the sons of Israel, between the evening hours. ⁷ They will take some of the blood and put it on the two jambs and on the lintel, on the houses in which they are eating it. ⁸ Then they will eat the flesh on this night, roasted with fire, and with unleavened cakes; over bitter herbs shall they eat it. ⁹ Do not eat any of it underdone or cooked by being cooked in water, but rather roasted with fire, even its head along with its shanks and with its inwards. ¹⁰ You shall not reserve any of it until the morning. And what is left of it until the morning you shall burn with fire. ¹¹ And thus shall you eat it, with your waist girded, your sandals on your feet and your stick in your hand. You will eat it in nervous haste. It is the passover to Yahweh. ¹² For I will pass through the land of Egypt in this night and smite every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from human even unto beast, and on all the elohim of Egypt I shall execute judgments; I am Yahweh. ¹³ Then the blood will become a sign for you on the houses where you are. When I see the blood I will pass over you. And there shall not come to be a stroke on you to cause ruin when I smite in the land of Egypt. ¹⁴ Hence this day will become for you a memorial day, and you will celebrate it as a celebration to Yahweh. Throughout your generations shall you celebrate it as an eonian statute. ¹⁵ Seven days shall you eat unleavened cakes. Yea, on the first day you shall eradicate yeast from your houses; for if anyone is eating what is leavened, from the first day unto the seventh day, then that soul will be cut off from Israel. ¹⁶ On the first day you shall come to have a holy meeting, also on the seventh day a holy meeting. No work at all shall be done on them; only what is eaten by every soul, that alone may be prepared by you. ¹⁷ You will observe the instruction, for on this very day I will bring forth your hosts from the land of Egypt. And you will observe this day throughout your generations as an eonian statute. ¹⁸ In the first month on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you shall eat unleavened cakes until the twenty-first day of the month, in the evening. ¹⁹ For seven days yeast shall not be found in your houses, for anyone eating leavened cakes, that soul will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, both among the sojourners and among the natives of the land. ²⁰ You shall not eat any leavened cakes in all your dwellings; you shall eat unleavened cakes." ²¹ Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them: "Draw out and take for yourselves from the flock for your families, and slay the passover. ²² Then you will take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood which is in the basin and touch the lintel and the two jambs with the blood which is in the basin. As for you, not one of you shall go forth from the portal of his house until the morning. ²³ When Yahweh passes through to strike the Egyptians and sees the blood on the lintel and on the two jambs then Yahweh will pass over the portal and shall not allow the ruiner to enter into your houses to strike. ²⁴ Now you will observe this word as a statute for you and for your sons unto the eon. ²⁵ It will come to be when you are entering to the land which Yahweh is giving to you just as He spoke, then you will observe this service. ²⁶ And it will come to be when your sons are saying to you: What is this service to you? ²⁷ Then you will say: It is the sacrifice of passover to Yahweh, Who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt, when He struck the Egyptians, yet our households He rescued." So the people bowed their heads and bowed themselves down. ²⁸ Then the sons of Israel went and did so; just as Yahweh had instructed Moses and Aaron, thus they did. ²⁹ It came to be at midnight that Yahweh, He smote every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, sitting on his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive who was in the house of the cistern, and every firstborn of beast. ³⁰ When Pharaoh rose by night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, then there came to be a great cry in all the land of Egypt, for there was no house where there was no one dead. ³¹ Hence Pharaoh called for Moses and for Aaron by night and said: "Rise! Go forth from the midst of my people, you indeed and the sons of Israel! Go, serve Yahweh as you spoke. ³² Moreover, your flocks, even your herds, take just as you have spoken, and go! However you will bless me." ³³ Also the Egyptians were steadfast over the people to hasten to dismiss them from the land, for they said: "All of us are dying." ³⁴ And the people carried their dough ere it was leavened, their kneading-troughs bundled in their garments on their backs. ³⁵ Then the sons of Israel did according to the word of Moses and requested from the Egyptians articles of silver and articles of gold, and garments. ³⁶ And Yahweh, He gave the people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians, when they requested them; thus they despoiled the Egyptians. ³⁷ The sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses toward Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, those of mastery, besides the little ones. ³⁸ Moreover a mixed multitude ascended with them, and flocks, herds and cattle, exceedingly heavy. ³⁹ They baked the dough which they brought forth from Egypt, unleavened ember cakes, for it was not leavened, for they were driven out of Egypt and they could not dally, and, moreover, they did not make provision for themselves. ⁴⁰ Now the dwelling of the sons of Israel and their fathers who dwelt in the land of Canaan and in the land of Egypt was four hundred thirty years. ⁴¹ And it came to be at the end of four hundred thirty years - and it came to be on this very day - that all the host of Yahweh went forth from the land of Egypt. ⁴² It is a night of observances for Yahweh to bring them forth from the land of Egypt. This same night is to Yahweh, observances for all the sons of Israel throughout their generations. ⁴³ Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron: "This is the statute of the passover: Any son of a foreigner, he shall not eat of it. ⁴⁴ Yet any man's servant acquired with silver, when you have circumcised him, then he may eat of it. ⁴⁵ A settler or a hirling, he may not eat of it. ⁴⁶ In one house shall it be eaten. You shall not bring forth any of the flesh from the house to the outside; and a bone in it you shall not break. ⁴⁷ The whole congregation of the sons of Israel shall do it. ⁴⁸ In case a sojourner is sojourning with you and makes a passover to Yahweh, every male of his is to be circumcised, and then he may draw near to make it, and he will become as a native of the land. Yet anyone uncircumcised, he shall not eat of it. ⁴⁹ One law shall there be for both the native and for the sojourner sojourning in your midst." ⁵⁰ And all the sons of Israel did so; just as Yahweh had instructed Moses and Aaron, thus they did. ⁵¹ It came to be on this very day when Yahweh brought forth the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt with their hosts,