Exod 12
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And YHWH spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
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This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of
the year to you.
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Speak you to all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth [day] of this month
they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers` houses, a lamb
for a household:
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and if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he and his neighbor next
to his house take one according to the number of the souls; according to every man`s
eating you shall make your count for the lamb.
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Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old: you shall take it from the
sheep, or from the goats:
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and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly
of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at even.
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And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel,
upon the houses wherein they shall eat it.
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And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread;
with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
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Eat not of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with
its legs and with its inwards.
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And you shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of
it until the morning you shall burn with fire.
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And thus shall you eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your
staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is YHWH`s passover.
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For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will smite all the first-born
in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will
execute judgments: I am YHWH.
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And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you are: and when
I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be upon you to destroy
you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
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And this day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to YHWH:
throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
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Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away leaven
out of your houses: for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh
day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
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And in the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh
day a holy convocation; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every
man must eat, that only may be done by you.
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And you shall observe the [feast of] unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have
I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall you observe this day
throughout your generations by an ordinance for ever.
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In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month at even, you shall eat unleavened
bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
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Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whoever eats that which
is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he
be a sojourner, or one that is born in the land.
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You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall you eat unleavened bread.
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Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, Draw out, and take
you lambs according to your families, and kill the passover.
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And you 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 of the door of his house until the morning.
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For YHWH will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood upon
the lintel, and on the two side-posts, YHWH will pass over the door, and will not
suffer the destroyer to come in to your houses to smite you.
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And you shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons for ever.
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And it shall come to pass, when you are come to the land which YHWH will give you,
according as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.
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And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say to you, What mean you by this
service?
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that you shall say, It is the sacrifice of YHWH`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 worshiped.
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And the children of Israel went and did so; as YHWH had commanded Moses and Aaron,
so did they.
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And it came to pass at midnight, that YHWH smote all the first-born in the land of
Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh that sat on his throne to the first-born of
the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle.
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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.
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And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, get you forth from
among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve YHWH, as you have
said.
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Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me
also.
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And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, to send them out of the land in haste;
for they said, We are all dead men.
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And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being
bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
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And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the
Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment.
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And YHWH gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them
have what they asked. And they despoiled the Egyptians.
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And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand
on foot that were men, besides children.
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And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much
cattle.
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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 victuals.
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Now the time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty
years.
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And it came to pass at the end of four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame
day it came to pass, that all the hosts of YHWH went out from the land of Egypt.
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It is a night to be much observed to YHWH for bringing them out from the land of Egypt:
this is that night of YHWH, to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout
their generations.
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And YHWH said to Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: there shall
no foreigner eat thereof;
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but every man`s servant that is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then
shall he eat thereof.
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A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat thereof.
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In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth anything of the flesh abroad
out of the house; neither shall you break a bone thereof.
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All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
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And when a stranger shall sojourn with you, and will keep the passover to YHWH, 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: but no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
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One law shall be to him whom is home-born, and to the stranger that sojourns among
you.
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Thus did all the children of Israel; as YHWH commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
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And it came to pass the selfsame day, that YHWH did bring the children of Israel out
of the land of Egypt by their hosts.