Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of ¹Egypt, 2 “^aThis month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year for you. 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 the fathers’ households, a ²lamb for ³each household. 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; in proportion to ³what each one should eat, you are to ⁴divide the lamb. 5 Your ¹lamb shall be ^aan unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 6 ¹You shall keep it until the ^afourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to slaughter it ^2bat twilight. 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. 8 They shall eat the flesh ^athat same night, ^broasted with fire, and they shall eat it with ^cunleavened bread ^1dand bitter herbs. 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. 10 ^aAnd you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall completely burn with fire. 11 Now you shall eat it in this way: with your garment ¹belted around your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in a hurry—it is ^athe LORD’S Passover. 12 For ^aI will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and fatally strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the human firstborn to animals; and ^bagainst all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments—^cI am the LORD. 13 ^aThe blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you ¹live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will come upon you ²to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

14 ‘Now ^athis day shall be ^ba memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as ^1ca permanent ordinance. 15 For ^aseven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove dough with yeast from your houses; for whoever eats anything with yeast from the first day until the seventh day, ^bthat ¹person shall be cut off from Israel. 16 And ^aon the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and another holy assembly on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, except for what must be eaten by every person—that alone may be ¹prepared by you. 17 You shall also keep ^athe Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this ^bvery day I brought your ¹multitudes out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall keep this day throughout your generations as ^ca ²permanent ordinance. 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. 19 For ^aseven days there shall be no dough with yeast found in your houses; for whoever eats anything with yeast, that ^1bperson shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a native of the land. 20 You shall not eat anything with yeast; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’”

21 Then ^aMoses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and ^btake for yourselves ¹lambs according to your families, and slaughter ^cthe Passover lamb. 22 And ^ayou shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and ¹apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts; and none of you shall go outside the door of his house until morning.

23 For ^athe LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians; but when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and will ^bnot allow the ^cdestroyer to come in to your houses to strike you. 24 And ^ayou shall keep this event as an ordinance for you and your children forever. 25 When you enter the land which the LORD will give you, as He has ¹promised, you shall keep this ²rite. 26 ^aAnd when your children say to you, ‘¹What does this rite mean to you?’ 27 then you shall say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice to ^athe LORD because He passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians, but ¹spared our homes.’” ^bAnd the people bowed low and worshiped.

28 Then the sons of Israel went and did so; just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

29 Now it came about at ^amidnight that ^bthe LORD 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 dungeon, and all the firstborn of ^dcattle. 30 And Pharaoh got up 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. 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, ¹worship the LORD, as you have said. 32 Take ^aboth your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and bless me also.”

33 ^aThe Egyptians urged the people, to send them out of the land in a hurry, for they said, “We will all be dead.” 34 So the people took ^atheir dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls bound up in the clothes on their shoulders.

35 ^aNow the sons of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, for they had requested from the Egyptians articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing; 36 and the LORD had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have their request. Therefore they ^aplundered the Egyptians.

37 Now the ^asons of Israel journeyed from ^bRameses to Succoth, about ^csix hundred thousand men on foot, aside from children. 38 A ^amixed multitude also went up with them, ¹along with flocks and herds, a ^bvery large number of livestock. 39 And they baked the dough which they had brought out of Egypt into cakes of unleavened bread. For it had no yeast, since they were ^adriven out of Egypt and could not delay, nor had they ¹prepared any provisions for themselves.

40 Now the time ¹that the sons of Israel had lived in Egypt was ^a430 years. 41 And at the end of 430 years, on ^athis very day, ^ball the ¹multitudes of the LORD departed from the land of Egypt.

42 ^aIt is a night ¹to be observed for the LORD, for having brought them out of the land of Egypt; this night is for the LORD, ²to be observed by all the sons of Israel throughout their generations.

43 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of ^athe Passover: no ^1bforeigner is to eat it; 44 but as for every ^aslave ¹that someone has purchased with money, after you have circumcised him, then he may eat it. 45 ^aA stranger or a hired worker shall not eat it. 46 It is to be eaten in a single house; you are not to bring any of the meat outside of the house, ^anor are you to break any bone of it. 47 ^aAll the congregation of Israel are to ¹celebrate this. 48 But ^aif a stranger resides with you and ¹celebrates the Passover to the LORD, all of his males are to be circumcised, and then he shall come near to ²celebrate it; and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised male may eat it. 49 ^1aThe same law shall ²apply to the native as to the stranger who resides among you.”

50 Then all the sons of Israel did so; they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron. 51 And on that very day ^athe LORD brought the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt ^baccording to their ¹multitudes.