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Exodus 12
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12GOD said to Moses and Aaron while still in Egypt,H3068H559H4872H175H776H4714H559 2"This month is to be the first month of the year for you.H2320H7218H2320H7223H2320H8141 3Address the whole community of Israel; tell them that on the tenth of this month each man is to take a lamb for his family, one lamb to a house.H1696H5712H3478H559H6218H2320H3947H376H7716H1004H1H7716H1004 4If the family is too small for a lamb, then share it with a close neighbor, depending on the number of persons involved. Be mindful of how much each person will eat.H1004H1961H4591H7716H7934H7138H1004H3947H4373H5315H376H6310H400H3699H7716 5Your lamb must be a healthy male, one year old; you can select it from either the sheep or the goats.H7716H8549H2145H1121H8141H3947H3532H5795 6Keep it penned until the fourteenth day of this month and then slaughter it—the entire community of Israel will do this—at dusk.H4931H702H6240H3117H2320H3605H6951H5712H3478H7819H996H6153 7Then take some of the blood and smear it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which you will eat it.H3947H1818H5414H8147H4201H4947H1004H398 8You are to eat the meat, roasted in the fire, that night, along with bread, made without yeast, and bitter herbs.H398H1320H3915H6748H784H4682H4844H398 9Don't eat any of it raw or boiled in water; make sure it's roasted—the whole animal, head, legs, and innards.H398H4995H1310H1311H4325H6748H784H7218H3767H7130 10Don't leave any of it until morning; if there are leftovers, burn them in the fire.H3498H1242H3498H1242H8313H784 11"And here is how you are to eat it: Be fully dressed with your sandals on and your stick in your hand. Eat in a hurry; it's the Passover to GOD.H3602H398H4975H2296H5275H7272H4731H3027H398H2649H3068H6453 12"I will go through the land of Egypt on this night and strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, whether human or animal, and bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am GOD.H5674H776H4714H3915H5221H1060H776H4714H120H929H430H4714H6213H8201H3068 13The blood will serve as a sign on the houses where you live. When I see the blood I will pass over you—no disaster will touch you when I strike the land of Egypt.H1818H226H1004H7200H1818H6452H5063H4889H5221H776H4714 14"This will be a memorial day for you; you will celebrate it as a festival to GOD down through the generations, a fixed festival celebration to be observed always.H3117H2146H2287H2282H3068H1755H2287H2708H5769 15You will eat unraised bread (matzoth) for seven days: On the first day get rid of all yeast from your houses—anyone who eats anything with yeast from the first day to the seventh day will be cut off from Israel.H7651H3117H398H4682H389H7223H3117H7673H7603H1004H398H2557H7223H3117H7637H3117H5315H3772H3478 16The first and the seventh days are set aside as holy; do no work on those days. Only what you have to do for meals; each person can do that.H7223H3117H6944H4744H7637H3117H6944H4744H4399H6213H389H5315H398H6213 17"Keep the Festival of Unraised Bread! This marks the exact day I brought you out in force from the land of Egypt. Honor the day down through your generations, a fixed festival to be observed always.H8104H4682H6106H3117H3318H6635H776H4714H8104H3117H1755H2708H5769 18In the first month, beginning on the fourteenth day at evening until the twenty-first day at evening, you are to eat unraised bread.H7223H6240H702H3117H2320H6153H398H4682H259H6242H3117H2320H6153 19For those seven days not a trace of yeast is to be found in your houses. Anyone, whether a visitor or a native of the land, who eats anything raised shall be cut off from the community of Israel.H7651H3117H7603H4672H1004H398H2556H5315H3772H5712H3478H1616H249H776 20Don't eat anything raised. Only matzoth."H398H2556H4186H398H4682 21Moses assembled all the elders of Israel. He said, "Select a lamb for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.H4872H7121H2205H3478H559H4900H3947H6629H4940H7819H6453 22Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the bowl of blood and smear it on the lintel and on the two doorposts. No one is to leave the house until morning.H3947H92H231H2881H1818H5592H5060H4947H8147H4201H1818H5592H376H3318H6607H1004H1242 23GOD will pass through to strike Egypt down. When he sees the blood on the lintel and the two door posts, GOD will pass over the doorway; he won't let the destroyer enter your house to strike you down with ruin.H3068H5674H5062H4714H7200H1818H4947H8147H4201H3068H6452H6607H5414H7843H935H1004H5062 24"Keep this word. It's the law for you and your children, forever.H8104H1697H2706H1121H5704H5769 25When you enter the land which GOD will give you as he promised, keep doing this.H935H776H3068H5414H1696H8104H5656 26And when your children say to you, 'Why are we doing this?'H1121H559H5656 27tell them: 'It's the Passover-sacrifice to GOD who passed over the homes of the Israelites in Egypt when he hit Egypt with death but rescued us.'" The people bowed and worshiped.H559H2077H3068H6453H6452H1004H1121H3478H4714H5062H4714H5337H1004H5971H6915H7812 28The Israelites then went and did what GOD had commanded Moses and Aaron. They did it all.H1121H3478H3212H6213H3068H6680H4872H175H6213 29At midnight GOD struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sits on his throne, right down to the firstborn of the prisoner locked up in jail. Also the firstborn of the animals.H2677H3915H3068H5221H1060H776H4714H1060H6547H3427H3678H1060H7628H1004H953H1060H929 30Pharaoh got up that night, he and all his servants and everyone else in Egypt—what wild wailing and lament in Egypt! There wasn't a house in which someone wasn't dead.H6547H6965H3915H5650H4714H1419H6818H4714H1004H4191 31Pharaoh called in Moses and Aaron that very night and said, "Get out of here and be done with you—you and your Israelites! Go worship GOD on your own terms.H7121H4872H175H3915H559H6965H3318H8432H5971H1121H3478H3212H5647H3068H1696 32And yes, take your sheep and cattle as you've insisted, but go. And bless me."H3947H6629H1241H1696H3212H1288 33The Egyptians couldn't wait to get rid of them; they pushed them to hurry up, saying, "We're all as good as dead."H4714H2388H5971H7971H776H4116H559H4191 34The people grabbed their bread dough before it had risen, bundled their bread bowls in their cloaks and threw them over their shoulders.H5971H5375H1217H2556H4863H6887H8071H7926 35The Israelites had already done what Moses had told them; they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold things and clothing.H1121H3478H6213H1697H4872H7592H4714H3627H3701H3627H2091H8071 36GOD saw to it that the Egyptians liked the people and so readily gave them what they asked for. Oh yes! They picked those Egyptians clean.H3068H5414H5971H2580H5869H4714H7592H5337H4714 37The Israelites moved on from Rameses to Succoth, about 600,000 on foot, besides their dependents.H1121H3478H5265H7486H5523H8337H3967H505H7273H1397H905H2945 38There was also a crowd of riffraff tagging along, not to mention the large flocks and herds of livestock.H6154H7227H5927H6629H1241H3966H3515H4735 39They baked unraised cakes with the bread dough they had brought out of Egypt; it hadn't raised—they'd been rushed out of Egypt and hadn't time to fix food for the journey.H644H4682H5692H1217H3318H4714H2556H1644H4714H3201H4102H6213H6720

The Passover

40The Israelites had lived in Egypt 430 years.H4186H1121H3478H3427H4714H702H3967H8141H7970H8141 41At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, GOD's entire army left Egypt.H7093H702H3967H8141H7970H8141H6106H3117H6635H3068H3318H776H4714 42GOD kept watch all night, watching over the Israelites as he brought them out of Egypt. Because GOD kept watch, all Israel for all generations will honor GOD by keeping watch this night—a watchnight.H3915H8107H3068H3318H776H4714H3915H3068H8107H1121H3478H1755 43GOD said to Moses and Aaron, "These are the rules for the Passover: No foreigners are to eat it.H3068H559H4872H175H2708H6453H1121H5236H398 44Any slave, if he's paid for and circumcised, can eat it.H376H5650H4736H3701H4135H398 45No casual visitor or hired hand can eat it.H8453H7916H398 46Eat it in one house—don't take the meat outside the house. Don't break any of the bones.H259H1004H398H3318H1320H2351H1004H7665H6106 47The whole community of Israel is to be included in the meal.H5712H3478H6213 48"If an immigrant is staying with you and wants to keep the Passover to GOD, every male in his family must be circumcised, then he can participate in the Meal—he will then be treated as a native son. But no uncircumcised person can eat it.H1616H1481H6213H6453H3068H2145H4135H7126H6213H249H776H6189H398 49"The same law applies both to the native and the immigrant who is staying with you."H259H8451H249H1616H1481H8432 50All the Israelites did exactly as GOD commanded Moses and Aaron.H6213H1121H3478H3068H6680H4872H175H6213 51That very day GOD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt, tribe by tribe.H6106H3117H3068H3318H1121H3478H776H4714H6635


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