Exodus 12:6-36

6and you shall keep it until the afourteenth 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 ctwo doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with dunleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but eroasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. 10And fyou 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 gyour belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. hIt is the Lord’s Passover. 12For iI 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 jall the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: kI am the Lord. 13 lThe 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 mfor you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a nstatute forever, you shall keep it as a feast. 15 oSeven 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, pthat person shall be cut off from Israel. 16On the first day you shall hold a qholy 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 ron this very day I brought your shosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever. 18 tIn 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 uFor seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, vthat person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, wwhether 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 xaccording to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb. 22Take a bunch of yhyssop and zdip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch aathe lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. abNone of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. 23 acFor the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on adthe lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and aewill 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, afas he has promised, you shall keep this service. 26And agwhen your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ 27you shall say, ah‘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 aibowed 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 ajAt midnight the akLord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, alfrom 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 ama great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead. 31Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Up, go out from among my people, anboth you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as you have said. 32 aoTake your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!”

The Exodus

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

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