Now Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron in the land of 1Egypt,Lit Egypt, saying 2 “aThis month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.Ex 13:4; 23:15; 34:18; Deut 16:1 3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a 1lamb for themselves, according to their fathers’ households, a 2lamb for 3each household.Or kidLit the 4 Now if the household is too small for a 1lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the 2number of persons in them; according to 3what each man should eat, you are to 4apportion the lamb.Or kidOr amountLit each man’s eatingLit compute for 5 Your 1lamb shall be aa male, without blemish, a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.Or kidLev 22:18-21; 23:12; Heb 9:14; 1 Pet 1:19 6 1And you shall keep it until the afourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall slaughter it 2bat twilight.Lit It shall be to you for a guardingLit between the two eveningsEx 12:14, 17; Lev 23:5; Num 9:1-3, 11; 28:16Ex 16:12; Deut 16:4, 6 7 aMoreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel 1of the houses in which they eat it.Lit uponEx 12:22 8 And they shall eat the flesh athat night, broasted with fire, and they shall eat it with cunleavened bread 1dand bitter herbs.Lit in addition toEx 34:25; Num 9:12Deut 16:7Deut 16:3, 4; 1 Cor 5:8Num 9:11 9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather aroasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with bits entrails.Ex 12:8Ex 29:13, 17, 22 10 aAnd you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn with fire.Ex 16:19; 23:18; 34:25 11 Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste—it is athe Passover of Yahweh.Ex 12:13, 21, 27, 43 12 And aI will go through the land of Egypt on that night and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and bagainst all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments—cI am Yahweh.Ex 11:4, 5Num 33:4; Ps 82:1Ex 6:2 13 aAnd the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and I will see the blood, and I will pass over you, and there shall be no plague among you 1to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.Lit for destructionHeb 11:28
14 ‘Now athis day will be ba memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to Yahweh; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as 1ca perpetual statute.Or an eternalEx 12:6; Lev 23:4, 5; 2 Kin 23:21Ex 13:9Ex 12:17, 24; 13:10 15 aSeven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall 1remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, bthat 2person shall be cut off from Israel.Lit cause to ceaseLit soulEx 13:6, 7; 23:15; 34:18; Lev 23:6; Num 28:17; Deut 16:3, 8Gen 17:14; Ex 12:19; Num 9:13 16 aNow on the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten 1by every person, that alone may be done by you.Lit pertaining toLev 23:7, 8; Num 28:18, 25 17 You shall also keep athe Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this bvery day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall keep this day throughout your generations as 1ca perpetual statute.Or an eternalDeut 16:3-8Ex 12:41Ex 12:14; 13:3, 10 18 aIn the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.Ex 12:2; Lev 23:5-8; Num 28:16-25 19 aSeven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that 1bperson shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land.Lit soulEx 12:15; 23:15; 34:18Num 9:13 20 You shall not eat anything leavened; in all your places of habitation you shall eat unleavened bread.’”
21 Then aMoses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “1Bring out and btake for yourselves 2lambs according to your families and slaughter cthe Passover lamb.Lit Draw outLit sheepNum 9:4; Heb 11:28Ex 12:3Ex 12:11 22 aAnd you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and 1touch some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts; and none of you shall go outside the doorway of his house until morning.Lit cause to touchEx 12:7 23 And aYahweh will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and He will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and Yahweh will pass over the doorway and will bnot allow the cdestroyer to come into your houses to smite you.Ex 11:4; 12:12, 13Rev 7:3; 9:41 Cor 10:10; Heb 11:28 24 And ayou shall keep this event as a statute for you and your children forever.Ex 12:14, 17; 13:5, 10 25 And it will be, when you enter the land which Yahweh will give you, as He has 1promised, you shall keep this new 2slavery.Lit spokenOr service 26 aAnd it will be when your children say to you, ‘1What is the meaning of this new slavery to you?’Lit What is this service to you?Ex 10:2; 13:8, 14, 15; Deut 32:7; Josh 4:6; Ps 78:6 27 that you shall say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice to aYahweh who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but delivered our homes.’” bAnd the people bowed low and worshiped.Ex 12:11Ex 4:31
28 Then the sons of Israel went and did so; just as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
29 Now it happened at amidnight that bYahweh struck all cthe 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 1dungeon, and all the firstborn of dcattle.Lit house of the pit, cf. Gen 37:20; 40:15Ex 11:4, 5Num 8:17; 33:4; Ps 135:8; 136:10Ex 4:23; Ps 78:51; 105:36Ex 9:6 30 Then Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was aa great cry in Egypt, for there was no home where there was not someone dead.Ex 11:6 31 Then ahe called for Moses and Aaron at night and said, “Rise up, bget out from among my people, both you and the sons of Israel; and go, 1serve Yahweh, as you have spoken.Or worshipEx 8:8Ex 8:25 32 Take aboth your flocks and your herds, as you have spoken, and go, and bless me also.”Ex 10:9, 26
33 aAnd the Egyptians strongly pressed the people to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We will all be dead.”Ex 10:7; 11:1; 12:39; Ps 105:38 34 So the people took up atheir dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls bound up in the clothes on their shoulders.Ex 12:39
35 aNow the sons of Israel had done according to the word of Moses—they had asked from the Egyptians for articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing;Ex 3:21, 22; 11:2, 3; Ps 105:37 36 and Yahweh had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they aplundered the Egyptians.Ex 3:22
37 And the asons of Israel journeyed from bRameses to Succoth, about csix hundred thousand men on foot, aside from the little ones.Num 33:3, 5Gen 47:11Ex 38:26; Num 1:46; 2:32; 11:21; 26:51 38 A 1aforeign multitude also went up with them, 2along with flocks and herds, a bvery 3large number of livestock.Or mixed, cf. Neh 13:3; Jer 25:20; 50:37Lit andOr glorious, cf. 9:24; lit heavyNum 11:4Ex 17:3; Num 20:19; 32:1; Deut 3:19 39 And they baked the dough which they had brought out of Egypt into cakes of unleavened bread. For it had not become leavened, since they were adriven out of Egypt and could not delay, nor had they 1prepared any provisions for themselves.Lit madeEx 6:1; 11:1; 12:31-33
40 Now the time 1that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was a430 years.Or of the sons of Israel who dweltGen 15:13, 16; Acts 7:6; Gal 3:17 41 And it happened at the end of 430 years, 1to athe very day, that ball the hosts of Yahweh went out from the land of Egypt.Lit that it happened on this very dayEx 12:17Ex 3:8, 10; 6:6 42 aIt is a night to be kept for Yahweh for having brought them out from the land of Egypt; this night is for Yahweh, to be kept 1by all the sons of Israel throughout their generations.Lit to the sonsEx 13:10; 34:18; Deut 16:1
43 And Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of athe Passover: no 1bforeigner shall eat of it;Lit son of a strangerEx 12:11; Num 9:14Ex 12:48 44 but every man’s aslave purchased with money, after you have circumcised him, then he may eat of it.Gen 17:12, 13; Lev 22:11 45 aA foreign resident or a hired person shall not eat of it.Lev 22:10 46 It shall be eaten in a single house; you shall not bring forth any of the flesh outside of the house, aand you shall not break any bone of it.Num 9:12; Ps 34:20; John 19:33, 36 47 aAll the congregation of Israel shall 1celebrate this.Lit doEx 12:6; Num 9:13, 14 48 But aif a sojourner sojourns with you and 1celebrates the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near to 2celebrate it; and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat of it.Lit doesLit doNum 9:14 49 1aThe same law shall 2apply to the native as to the sojourner who sojourns among you.”Lit One lawLit beLev 24:22; Num 15:15, 16, 29
50 So all the sons of Israel did; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, thus they did. 51 And on that same day aYahweh brought the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt 1bby their hosts.Lit according toEx 12:41Ex 6:26