Exodus 12:11-21

11In this manner you shall eat it: with ayour belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. bIt is the Lord’s Passover. 12For cI will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on dall the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: eI am the Lord. 13 fThe blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

14This day shall be gfor you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a hstatute forever, you shall keep it as a feast. 15 iSeven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, jthat person shall be cut off from Israel. 16On the first day you shall hold a kholy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you. 17And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for lon this very day I brought your mhosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever. 18 nIn the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. 19 oFor seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, pthat person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, qwhether he is a sojourner or a native of the land. 20You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.”

21Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and select lambs for yourselves raccording to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb.
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