b.
The Passover
12:1-36
Exo. 12
:1
12:1
Then Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
Exo. 12
:2
12:2
This month will be the
1abeginning of months for you; it shall be the first of the months of the year to you.
Exo. 12
:3
12:3
Speak to all the assembly of Israel, saying, On the tenth of this month each man shall take a
1alamb according to his fathers’ house, a lamb for a
2household.
Exo. 12
:4
12:4
And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his
1neighbor next to his house shall take
one according to the number of the
2persons in the houses; according to each man’s eating you shall make your count for the lamb.
Exo. 12
:5
12:5
Your lamb shall be without
ablemish, a
1year-old male; you may take
it from the
2sheep or from the
2goats.
Exo. 12
:6
12:6
And you shall keep it until the
1afourteenth day of this month; then the
2whole congregation of the assembly of Israel shall kill it
3at btwilight.
Exo. 12
:7
12:7
And they shall take some of the
1ablood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the
2houses in which they eat it.
Exo. 12
:8
12:8
And they shall eat the
1flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with
2aunleavened bread with bitter herbs.
Exo. 12
:9
12:9
Do not eat any of it
1raw or boiled at all with water, but
1aroasted with fire — its
2head with its legs and with its inward parts.
Exo. 12
:10
12:10
And you shall not let any of it
1remain until the
amorning, but any of it that remains until the morning you shall burn with fire.
Exo. 12
:11
12:11
And this is how you shall eat it:
1with your loins
agirded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste. It is Jehovah’s
2bpassover.
Exo. 12
:12
12:12
For I will
apass through the land of Egypt on that night and will strike all the
1bfirstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. Also against all the
2gods of Egypt I will execute judgments. I am
cJehovah.
Exo. 12
:13
12:13
And the
ablood shall be a
bsign for you upon the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there will be no plague upon you to destroy
you when I strike the land of Egypt.
Exo. 12
:14
12:14
And this day will be a
1memorial to you, and you shall
akeep it as a
2feast to Jehovah; throughout your generations as a perpetual statute you shall keep it as a feast.
Exo. 12
:15
12:15
1Seven days you shall eat
2aunleavened bread; on the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that
3person shall be
bcut off from Israel.
Exo. 12
:16
12:16
And on the first day you shall have a
aholy convocation, and on the seventh day a holy convocation.
1No work at all shall be done on them, except
to prepare what every person will eat; that alone may be done by you.
Exo. 12
:17
12:17
And you shall keep the
Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I have
abrought your
barmies out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall keep this day throughout your generations as a perpetual statute.
Exo. 12
:18
12:18
In the first
month, on the
afourteenth day of the month in the evening, you shall eat
bunleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening.
Exo. 12
:19
12:19
For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses. For whoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the assembly of Israel, whether a sojourner or a native of the land.
Exo. 12
:20
12:20
You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.
Exo. 12
:21
12:21
Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, Draw out and take
alambs according to your families, and slaughter the passover.
Exo. 12
:22
12:22
And you shall take a bunch of
1ahyssop and dip
it in the blood that is in the basin, and you shall apply some of the
bblood that is in the basin to the lintel and to the two doorposts; and none of you shall go
2outside the
centrance of his house until the morning.
Exo. 12
:23
12:23
For Jehovah will
apass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood upon the lintel and on the two doorposts, Jehovah will pass over the entrance and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to smite
you.
Exo. 12
:24
12:24
And you shall observe this matter as a statute for you and for your sons in perpetuity.
Exo. 12
:25
12:25
And when you come to the land which Jehovah will give you, as He has
apromised, you shall observe this service.
Exo. 12
:26
12:26
And when your
achildren say to you, What do you mean by this service?
Exo. 12
:27
12:27
You shall say, It is the
apassover sacrifice to Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses. And the people
bbowed and worshipped.
Exo. 12
:28
12:28
And the children of Israel went and did
so; just as Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
Exo. 12
:29
12:29
And at
amidnight Jehovah
1bstruck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from 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 cattle.
Exo. 12
:30
12:30
And Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was a great
acry in Egypt, for there was no house where there was not someone dead.
Exo. 12
:31
12:31
And he called for Moses and Aaron in the night and said, Rise up, go out from the midst of my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Jehovah, as you have said.
Exo. 12
:32
12:32
Take both your
aflocks and your herds, as you have said; and go and bless me also.
Exo. 12
:33
12:33
And the Egyptians
1aurged the people on, so as to hasten their departure out of the land, for they said, All of us will be dead.
Exo. 12
:34
12:34
And the people took their dough before it was
1leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
Exo. 12
:35
12:35
And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses, and they asked the Egyptians for
aarticles of silver and gold and for clothing.
Exo. 12
:36
12:36
And Jehovah gave the people
afavor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they
1bplundered the Egyptians.
c.
Israel's exodus from Egypt
12:37-42
Exo. 12
:37
12:37
And the children of Israel journeyed from
aRameses to Succoth, about
bsix hundred thousand men on foot, besides children.
Exo. 12
:38
12:38
And a
1amixed multitude went up also with them, as well as flocks and herds, a very large number of livestock.
Exo. 12
:39
12:39
And they baked the dough which they brought out of Egypt into unleavened cakes, for it had not been leavened because they were
adriven out of Egypt and could not delay; nor had they prepared for themselves any provisions.
Exo. 12
:40
12:40
Now the time of the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in
1Egypt, was
2afour hundred thirty years.
Exo. 12
:41
12:41
And at the end of four hundred thirty years, on that very day, all the
aarmies of Jehovah
bwent out from the land of Egypt.
Exo. 12
:42
12:42
It was for Jehovah a night of
1watching, to bring them out from the land of Egypt. That same night is a night of watching to Jehovah for all the children of Israel throughout their generations.
Exo. 12
:43
12:43
And Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron, This is the statute of the passover: No
1foreigner shall eat of it.
Exo. 12
:44
12:44
However, any man’s servant who is bought for silver, when you have
acircumcised him, then he shall eat of it.
Exo. 12
:45
12:45
A asojourner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.
Exo. 12
:46
12:46
It shall be eaten in one house. You shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, nor shall you break any of its
1abones.
Exo. 12
:47
12:47
All the assembly of Israel shall keep it.
Exo. 12
:48
12:48
But if a
astranger sojourns with you and will observe the Passover to Jehovah, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near to observe it; and he will be like one who is a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
Exo. 12
:49
12:49
One alaw shall be for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you.
Exo. 12
:50
12:50
And all the children of Israel did
so; just as Jehovah commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
Exo. 12
:51
12:51
And on that very day Jehovah
abrought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their
1barmies.
