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Exodus 12
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The Passover

12The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in Egypt:H3068H559H4872H175H776H4714H559
2"This month is to be the first month of the year for you.H2320H7218H2320H7223H2320H8141
3Give these instructions to the whole community of Israel: On the tenth day of this month each man must choose either a lamb or a young goat for his household.H1696H5712H3478H559H6218H2320H3947H376H7716H1004H1H7716H1004
4If his family is too small to eat a whole animal, he and his next-door neighbor may share an animal, in proportion to the number of people and the amount that each person can eat.H1004H1961H4591H7716H7934H7138H1004H3947H4373H5315H376H6310H400H3699H7716
5You may choose either a sheep or a goat, but it must be a one-year-old male without any defects.H7716H8549H2145H1121H8141H3947H3532H5795
6Then, on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, the whole community of Israel will kill the animals.H4931H702H6240H3117H2320H3605H6951H5712H3478H7819H996H6153
7The people are to take some of the blood and put it on the doorposts and above the doors of the houses in which the animals are to be eaten.H3947H1818H5414H8147H4201H4947H1004H398
8That night the meat is to be roasted, and eaten with bitter herbs and with bread made without yeast.H398H1320H3915H6748H784H4682H4844H398
9Do not eat any of it raw or boiled, but eat it roasted whole, including the head, the legs, and the internal organs.H398H4995H1310H1311H4325H6748H784H7218H3767H7130
10You must not leave any of it until morning; if any is left over, it must be burned.H3498H1242H3498H1242H8313H784
11You are to eat it quickly, for you are to be dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your walking stick in your hand. It is the Passover Festival to honor me, the LORD.H3602H398H4975H2296H5275H7272H4731H3027H398H2649H3068H6453
12"On that night I will go through the land of Egypt, killing every first-born male, both human and animal, and punishing all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.H5674H776H4714H3915H5221H1060H776H4714H120H929H430H4714H6213H8201H3068
13The blood on the doorposts will be a sign to mark the houses in which you live. When I see the blood, I will pass over you and will not harm you when I punish the Egyptians.H1818H226H1004H7200H1818H6452H5063H4889H5221H776H4714
14You must celebrate this day as a religious festival to remind you of what I, the LORD, have done. Celebrate it for all time to come."H3117H2146H2287H2282H3068H1755H2287H2708H5769

The Festival of Unleavened Bread

15The LORD said, "For seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast - eat only unleavened bread. On the first day you are to get rid of all the yeast in your houses, for if anyone during those seven days eats bread made with yeast, he shall no longer be considered one of my people.H7651H3117H398H4682H389H7223H3117H7673H7603H1004H398H2557H7223H3117H7637H3117H5315H3772H3478
16On the first day and again on the seventh day you are to meet for worship. No work is to be done on those days, but you may prepare food.H7223H3117H6944H4744H7637H3117H6944H4744H4399H6213H389H5315H398H6213
17Keep this festival, because it was on this day that I brought your tribes out of Egypt. For all time to come you must celebrate this day as a festival.H8104H4682H6106H3117H3318H6635H776H4714H8104H3117H1755H2708H5769
18From the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month to the evening of the twenty-first day, you must not eat any bread made with yeast.H7223H6240H702H3117H2320H6153H398H4682H259H6242H3117H2320H6153
19For seven days no yeast must be found in your houses,H7651H3117H7603H4672H1004H398H2556H5315H3772H5712H3478H1616H249H776
20for if anyone, native-born or foreign, eats bread made with yeast, he shall no longer be considered one of my people."H398H2556H4186H398H4682

The First Passover

21Moses called for all the leaders of Israel and said to them, "Each of you is to choose a lamb or a young goat and kill it, so that your families can celebrate Passover.H4872H7121H2205H3478H559H4900H3947H6629H4940H7819H6453
22Take a sprig of hyssop, dip it in the bowl containing the animal's blood, and wipe the blood on the doorposts and the beam above the door of your house. Not one of you is to leave the house until morning.H3947H92H231H2881H1818H5592H5060H4947H8147H4201H1818H5592H376H3318H6607H1004H1242
23When the LORD goes through Egypt to kill the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the beams and the doorposts and will not let the Angel of Death enter your houses and kill you.H3068H5674H5062H4714H7200H1818H4947H8147H4201H3068H6452H6607H5414H7843H935H1004H5062
24You and your children must obey these rules forever.H8104H1697H2706H1121H5704H5769
25When you enter the land that the LORD has promised to give you, you must perform this ritual.H935H776H3068H5414H1696H8104H5656
26When your children ask you, 'What does this ritual mean?'H1121H559H5656
27you will answer, 'It is the sacrifice of Passover to honor the LORD, because he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt. He killed the Egyptians, but spared us.' " The Israelites knelt down and worshiped.H559H2077H3068H6453H6452H1004H1121H3478H4714H5062H4714H5337H1004H5971H6915H7812
28Then they went and did what the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.H1121H3478H3212H6213H3068H6680H4872H175H6213

The Death of the First-Born

29At midnight the LORD killed all the first-born sons in Egypt, from the king's son, who was heir to the throne, to the son of the prisoner in the dungeon; all the first-born of the animals were also killed.H2677H3915H3068H5221H1060H776H4714H1060H6547H3427H3678H1060H7628H1004H953H1060H929
30That night, the king, his officials, and all the other Egyptians were awakened. There was loud crying throughout Egypt, because there was not one home in which there was not a dead son.H6547H6965H3915H5650H4714H1419H6818H4714H1004H4191
31That same night the king sent for Moses and Aaron and said, "Get out, you and your Israelites! Leave my country; go and worship the LORD, as you asked.H7121H4872H175H3915H559H6965H3318H8432H5971H1121H3478H3212H5647H3068H1696
32Take your sheep, goats, and cattle, and leave. Also pray for a blessing on me."H3947H6629H1241H1696H3212H1288
33The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country; they said, "We will all be dead if you don't leave."H4714H2388H5971H7971H776H4116H559H4191
34So the people filled their baking pans with unleavened dough, wrapped them in clothing, and carried them on their shoulders.H5971H5375H1217H2556H4863H6887H8071H7926
35The Israelites had done as Moses had said, and had asked the Egyptians for gold and silver jewelry and for clothes.H1121H3478H6213H1697H4872H7592H4714H3627H3701H3627H2091H8071
36The LORD made the Egyptians respect the people and give them what they asked for. In this way the Israelites carried away the wealth of the Egyptians.H3068H5414H5971H2580H5869H4714H7592H5337H4714

The Israelites Leave Egypt

37The Israelites set out on foot from Rameses for Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men, not counting women and children.H1121H3478H5265H7486H5523H8337H3967H505H7273H1397H905H2945
38A large number of other people and many sheep, goats, and cattle also went with them.H6154H7227H5927H6629H1241H3966H3515H4735
39They baked unleavened bread from the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, for they had been driven out of Egypt so suddenly that they did not have time to get their food ready or to prepare leavened dough.H644H4682H5692H1217H3318H4714H2556H1644H4714H3201H4102H6213H6720
40The Israelites had lived in Egypt for 430 years.H4186H1121H3478H3427H4714H702H3967H8141H7970H8141
41On the day the 430 years ended, all the tribes of the LORD's people left Egypt.H7093H702H3967H8141H7970H8141H6106H3117H6635H3068H3318H776H4714
42It was a night when the LORD kept watch to bring them out of Egypt; this same night is dedicated to the LORD for all time to come as a night when the Israelites must keep watch.H3915H8107H3068H3318H776H4714H3915H3068H8107H1121H3478H1755

Regulations about Passover

43The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "These are the Passover regulations: No foreigner shall eat the Passover meal,H3068H559H4872H175H2708H6453H1121H5236H398
44but any slave that you have bought may eat it if you circumcise him first.H376H5650H4736H3701H4135H398
45No temporary resident or hired worker may eat it.H8453H7916H398
46The whole meal must be eaten in the house in which it was prepared; it must not be taken outside. And do not break any of the animal's bones.H259H1004H398H3318H1320H2351H1004H7665H6106
47The whole community of Israel must celebrate this festival,H5712H3478H6213
48but no uncircumcised man may eat it. If a foreigner has settled among you and wants to celebrate Passover to honor the LORD, you must first circumcise all the males of his household. He is then to be treated like a native-born Israelite and may join in the festival.H1616H1481H6213H6453H3068H2145H4135H7126H6213H249H776H6189H398
49The same regulations apply to native-born Israelites and to foreigners who settle among you."H259H8451H249H1616H1481H8432
50All the Israelites obeyed and did what the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.H6213H1121H3478H3068H6680H4872H175H6213
51On that day the LORD brought the Israelite tribes out of Egypt.H6106H3117H3068H3318H1121H3478H776H4714H6635


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