Exodus 12:3-30
3Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb aaccording to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. 4And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. 5Your lamb shall be bwithout blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, 6and you shall keep it until the cfourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight. ▼▼Hebrew between the two evenings
7“Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the etwo doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with funleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but groasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. 10And hyou shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. 11In this manner you shall eat it: with iyour belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. jIt is the Lord’s Passover. 12For kI 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 lall the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: mI am the Lord. 13 nThe 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 ofor you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a pstatute forever, you shall keep it as a feast. 15 qSeven 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, rthat person shall be cut off from Israel. 16On the first day you shall hold a sholy 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 ton this very day I brought your uhosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever. 18 vIn 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 wFor seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, xthat person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, ywhether 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 zaccording to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb. 22Take a bunch of aahyssop and abdip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch acthe lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. adNone of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. 23 aeFor the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on afthe lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and agwill not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you. 24You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever. 25And when you come to the land that the Lord will give you, ahas he has promised, you shall keep this service. 26And aiwhen your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ 27you shall say, aj‘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 akbowed their heads and worshiped.
28Then 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 alAt midnight the amLord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, anfrom 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. 30And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was aoa great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead.
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