12:1 And the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron
in the land of Egypt, saying,
12:2 This month [shall be] to you the beginning of months: it is the first
to you among the months of the year.
12:3 Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, On the
tenth of this month let them take each man a lamb according to the houses of
their families, every man a lamb for his household.
12:4 And if they be few in a household, so that there are not enough for the
lamb, he shall take with himself his neighbour that lives near to him,-- as
to the number of souls, every one according to that which suffices him shall
make a reckoning for the lamb.
12:5 It shall be to you a lamb unblemished, a male of a year old: ye shall
take it of the lambs and the kids.
12:6 And it shall be kept by you till the fourteenth of this month, and all
the multitude of the congregation of the children of Israel shall kill it
toward evening.
12:7 And they shall take of the blood, and shall put it on the two
door-posts, and on the lintel, in the houses in which soever they shall eat
them.
12:8 And they shall eat the flesh in this night roast with fire, and they
shall eat unleavened [bread] with bitter herbs.
12:9 Ye shall not eat of it raw nor sodden in water, but only roast with
fire, the head with the feet and the appurtenances.
12:10 Nothing shall be left of it till the morning, and a bone of it ye
shall not break; but that which is left of it till the morning ye shall burn
with fire.
12:11 And thus shall ye eat it: your loins girded, and your sandals on your
feet, and your staves in your hands, and ye shall eat it in haste. It is a
passover to the Lord.
12:12 and I will go throughout the land of Egypt in that night, and will
smite every first-born in the land of Egypt both man and beast, and on all
the gods of Egypt will I execute vengeance: I [am] the Lord.
12:13 And the blood shall be for a sign to you on the houses in which ye
are, and I will see the blood, and will protect you, and there shall not be
on you the plague of destruction, when I smite in the land of Egypt.
12:14 And this day shall be to you a memorial, and ye shall keep it a feast
to the Lord through all your generations; ye shall keep it a feast for a
perpetual ordinance.
12:15 Seven days ye shall eat unleavened bread, and from the first day ye
shall utterly remove leaven from your houses: whoever shall eat leaven, that
soul shall be utterly destroyed from Israel, from the first day until the
seventh day.
12:16 And the first day shall be called holy, and the seventh day shall be a
holy convocation to you: ye shall do no servile work on them, only as many
things as will [necessarily] be done by every soul, this only shall be done
by you.
12:17 And ye shall keep this commandment, for on this day will I bring out
your force out of the land of Egypt; and ye shall make this day a perpetual
ordinance for you throughout your generations.
12:18 Beginning the fourteenth day of the first month, ye shall eat
unleavened bread from evening, till the twenty-first day of the month, till
evening.
12:19 Seven days leaven shall not be found in your houses; whosoever shall
eat anything leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of
Israel, both among the occupiers of the land and the original inhabitants.
12:20 Ye hall eat nothing leavened, but in every habitation of your ye shall
eat unleavened bread.
12:21 And Moses called all the elders of the children of Israel, and said to
them, Go away and take to yourselves a lamb according to your kindreds, and
slay the passover.
12:22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and having dipped it into some of
the blood that is by the door, ye shall touch the lintel, and [shall put it]
upon both door-posts, even of the blood which is by the door; but ye shall
not go out every one from the door of his house till the morning.
12:23 And the Lord shall pass by to smite the Egyptians, and shall see the
blood upon the lintel, and upon both the door-posts; and the Lord shall pass
by the door, and shall not suffer the destroyer to enter into your houses to
smite [you].
12:24 And keep ye this thing as an ordinance for thyself and for thy
children for ever.
12:25 And if ye should enter into the land, which the Lord shall give you,
as he has spoken, keep this service.
12:26 And it shall come to pass, if your sons say to you, What is this
service?
12:27 that ye shall say to them, This passover is a sacrifice to the Lord,
as he defended the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote
the Egyptians, but delivered our houses.
12:28 And the people bowed and worshiped. And the children of Israel
departed and did as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
12:29 And it came to pass at midnight that the Lord smote all the first-born
in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharao that sat on the throne,
to the first-born of the captive-maid in the dungeon, and the first-born of
all cattle.
12:30 And Pharao rose up by night, and his servants, and all the Egyptians;
and there was a great cry in all the land of Egypt, for there was not a
house in which there was not one dead.
12:31 And Pharao called Moses and Aaron by night, and said to them, Rise and
depart from my people, both ye and the children of Israel. Go and serve the
Lord your God, even as ye say.
12:32 And take with you your sheep, and your oxen: bless me also, I pray
you.
12:33 And the Egyptians constrained the people, so that they cast them out
of the land with haste, for they said, We all shall die.
12:34 And the people took their dough before their meal was leavened, bound
up [as it was] in their garments, on their shoulders.
12:35 And the children of Israel did as Moses commanded them, and they asked
of the Egyptians articles of silver and gold and apparel.
12:36 And the Lord gave his people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, and
they lent to them; and they spoiled the Egyptians.
12:37 And the children Israel departed from Ramesses to Socchoth, to [the
full number of] six hundred thousand footmen, even men, besides the baggage.
12:38 And a great mixed [company] went up with them, and sheep and oxen and
very much cattle.
12:39 And they baked the dough which they brought out of Egypt, unleavened
cakes, for it had not been leavened; for the Egyptians cast them out, and
they could not remain, neither did they prepare provision for themselves for
the journey.
12:40 And the sojourning of the children of Israel, while they sojourned in
the land of Egypt and the land of Chanaan, [was] four hundred and thirty
years.
12:41 And it came to pass after the four hundred and thirty years, all the
forces of the Lord came forth out of the land of Egypt by night.
12:42 It is a watch kept to the Lord, so that he should bring them out of
the land of Egypt; that very night is a watch kept to the Lord, so that it
should be to all the children of Israel to their generations.
12:43 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, This is the law of the passover:
no stranger shall eat of it.
12:44 And every slave or servant bought with money-- him thou shalt
circumcise, and then shall he eat of it.
12:45 A sojourner or hireling shall not eat of it.
12:46 In one house shall it be eaten, and ye shall not carry of the flesh
out from the house; and a bone of it ye shall not break.
12:47 All the congregation of the children of Israel shall keep it.
12:48 An if any proselyte shall come to you to keep the passover to the
Lord, thou shalt circumcise every male of him, and then shall he approach to
sacrifice it, and he shall be even as the original inhabitant of the land;
no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
12:49 There shall be one law to the native, and to the proselyte coming
among you.
12:50 And the children of Israel did as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron
for them, so they did.
12:51 And it came to pass in that day that the Lord brought out the children
of Israel from the land of Egypt with their forces. |
12:1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron
in the land of Egypt saying,
12:2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the
first month of the year to you.
12:3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day
of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the
house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
12:4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his
neighbor next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls;
every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
12:5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall
take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
12:6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and
the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the
evening.
12:7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts
and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
12:8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and
unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
12:9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire;
his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
12:10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that
which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
12:11 And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your
feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the
LORD's passover.
12:12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite
all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all
the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
12:13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye
are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall
not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
12:14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a
feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by
an ordinance for ever.
12:15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall
put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from
the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
12:16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the
seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work
shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be
done of you.
12:17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this
selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore
shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
12:18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye
shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at
even.
12:19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for
whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off
from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the
land.
12:20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat
unleavened bread.
12:21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them,
Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the
passover.
12:22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is
in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood
that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house
until the morning.
12:23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he
seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will
pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your
houses to smite you.
12:24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy
sons for ever.
12:25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD
will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this
service.
12:26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What
mean ye by this service?
12:27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD's passover, who
passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the
Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and
worshipped.
12:28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had
commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
12:29 And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn
in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne
unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the
firstborn of cattle.
12:30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all
the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house
where there was not one dead.
12:31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get
you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go,
serve the LORD, as ye have said.
12:32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone;
and bless me also.
12:33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send
them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
12:34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their
kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
12:35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and
they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and
raiment:
12:36 And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so
that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the
Egyptians.
12:37 And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about
six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
12:38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds,
even very much cattle.
12:39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth
out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of
Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any
victual.
12:40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was
four hundred and thirty years.
12:41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years,
even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went
out from the land of Egypt.
12:42 It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out
from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all
the children of Israel in their generations.
12:43 And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the
passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
12:44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast
circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
12:45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
12:46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of
the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
12:47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
12:48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the
passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him
come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for
no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
12:49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that
sojourneth among you.
12:50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and
Aaron, so did they.
12:51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the
children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies. |