Exo 12:11-43 | ESV | STEP | In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened , your sandals on your feet , and your staff in your hand . And you shall eat it in haste . It is the Lord’s Passover .

11 In 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. 12 For ^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.

14 “This 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. 16 On 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. 17 And 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. 20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.”

21 Then 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. 22 Take a bunch of ^shyssop and ^tdip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch ^uthe lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. ^vNone of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. 23 ^wFor the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on ^xthe lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and ^ywill not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you. 24 You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever. 25 And when you come to the land that the Lord will give you, ^zas he has promised, you shall keep this service. 26 And ^aawhen your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ 27 you shall say, ^ab‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.’” And the people ^acbowed their heads and worshiped.

28 Then the people of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn

29 ^adAt midnight the ^aeLord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, ^affrom 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 the livestock. 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was ^aga great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead. 31 Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Up, go out from among my people, ^ahboth you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as you have said. 32 ^aiTake your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!”

The Exodus

33 ^ajThe Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste. For they said, “We shall all be dead.” 34 So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders. 35 The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had ^akasked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing. 36 ^alAnd the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that ^amthey let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.

37 And the ^anpeople of Israel journeyed from ^aoRameses to Succoth, ^apabout six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. 38 A ^aqmixed multitude also went up with them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds. 39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because ^arthey were thrust out of Egypt and ^ascould not wait, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves.

40 The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years. 41 At the end of ^at430 years, on that very day, all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt. 42 It was a night of watching by the Lord, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a ^aunight of watching kept to the Lord by all the people of Israel throughout their generations.

Institution of the Passover

43 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it,