12:1 Yahweh said¹ to Moses and to Aaron in the land of Egypt,² 12:2 “This month is to be³ the beginning of months for you; it is to be⁴ for you the first of the months of the year.⁵ 12:3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘In the tenth day of this month they each⁶ will take a lamb⁷ for themselves according to the house of their fathers—a lamb for a house.⁸ 12:4 And if any household⁹ is too small¹⁰ for the lamb,¹¹ the man¹² and his neighbor who is near to his house are to take¹³ a lamb according to the number of people—you will make your count for the lamb according to how much each one can eat.¹⁴ 12:5 You must take¹⁵ a perfect¹⁶ animal, a male that is one year old;¹⁷ you may take¹⁸ it from the sheep or from the goats. 12:6 And you must take care of it¹⁹ until the fourteenth day of the same month,²⁰ and then all the congregation of the assembly²¹ will kill them²² between the evenings.²³ 12:7 Then they will take some of the blood and put it on the two side posts and on the lintel, on the houses wherein they will eat it. 12:8 And they will eat the meat in the same night,²⁴ roasted with fire, with unleavened cakes,²⁵ and with bitter herbs will they eat it. 12:9 Do not eat it raw,²⁶ or cooked in water, but roast it over the fire, its head, its legs, and its inner parts. 12:10 And you will leave nothing until morning, but that which remains of it until morning you must burn²⁷ with fire. 12:11 And this is how you are to eat it—dressed to travel,²⁸ your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you are to eat it in haste.²⁹ It is the Passover³⁰ of Yahweh.³¹

12:12 And I will pass through³² the land of Egypt in the same³³ night, and I will kill³⁴ all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of humans and of animals;³⁵ and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment.³⁶ I am Yahweh. 12:13 The blood will be³⁷ a sign for you on your houses where you are: when I see³⁸ the blood I will pass over you,³⁹ and the plague⁴⁰ will not be on you for a destroyer⁴¹ when I strike⁴² the land of Egypt.⁴³

12:14 This day will become⁴⁴ a memorial⁴⁵ for you, and you will celebrate it as a festival⁴⁶ to Yahweh—you will celebrate the feast perpetually as a lasting ordinance.⁴⁷ 12:15 For seven days⁴⁸ you must eat⁴⁹ bread made without yeast.⁵⁰ Surely,⁵¹ on the first day you must put away the yeast from your houses, because anyone who eats leavened bread⁵² from the first day to the seventh day may be cut off⁵³ from Israel.

12:16 And on the first day there will be a holy convocation,⁵⁴ and on the seventh day there will be a holy convocation for you: no work of any kind will be done⁵⁵ on them, only that which every person must eat—it alone may be prepared for you. 12:17 And you will keep the Feast of Unleavened bread, because on this same⁵⁶ day I brought your hosts⁵⁷ out from the land of Egypt, and so you must keep this day perpetually as a lasting ordinance.⁵⁸ 12:18 In the first month,⁵⁹ on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you will eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening. 12:19 For seven days⁶⁰ leaven must not be found in your houses, for whoever eats that which is leavened—that person⁶¹ will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether a foreigner⁶² or one born⁶³ in the land. 12:20 You will not eat anything leavened; in all your dwellings you must eat unleavened bread.”

12:21 Then Moses summoned the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Draw out⁶⁴ and take small animals⁶⁵ for yourselves according to your families; and kill the Passover. 12:22 And you will take a bunch of hyssop,⁶⁶ and dip it in the blood that is in the basin,⁶⁷ and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you will go out⁶⁸ the door of his house until morning. 12:23 For Yahweh will pass through to strike Egypt; and when he sees⁶⁹ the blood on the lintel and the two side posts, then Yahweh will pass over the door, and he will not permit the destroyer⁷⁰ to enter into your houses to strike you.⁷¹ 12:24 And you will observe this event for an ordinance for you and for your children for ever. 12:25 And it will be when you enter the land that Yahweh will give to you, just as he said, then you will observe⁷² this service. 12:26 And when your children say to you, “What does this service mean⁷³ to you?”—12:27 then you will say, ‘It is the sacrifice⁷⁴ of Yahweh’s Passover, when he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he destroyed⁷⁵ Egypt, and delivered our households.’” And the people bowed down low⁷⁶ to the ground. 12:28 And then the Israelites went away and did as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.

12:29 It happened⁷⁸ at midnight—Yahweh struck⁷⁹ all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the prison, and all the firstborn of the cattle. 12:30 And Pharaoh got up⁸⁰ in the night,⁸¹ he and all his servants and all Egypt; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house⁸² in which there was not someone dead. 12:31 And he summoned Moses and Aaron in the night, and he said, “Get up, get out⁸³ from the midst of my people, both you and your children; go and serve Yahweh as you have spoken.⁸⁴ 12:32 Also, take your flocks and your herds, just as you have spoken, and leave. But bless me also.”⁸⁵

12:33 And the Egyptians were urgent⁸⁶ on the people, that they might send them out of the land quickly,⁸⁷ for they were saying, “We are all dead people.” 12:34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened,⁸⁸ their kneading troughs bound up in their clothes on their shoulders. 12:35 And the Israelites had done⁸⁹ according to the word of Moses—they had asked from Egypt articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing. 12:36 Yahweh⁹⁰ gave favor to the people⁹¹ in the eyes of the Egyptians,⁹² and they gave them what they wanted,⁹³ and so they plundered Egypt.⁹⁴

12:37 The Israelites journeyed⁹⁵ from Rameses⁹⁶ and Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men⁹⁷ on foot, besides women and children.⁹⁸ 12:38 And a mixed multitude⁹⁹ went up also with them, and flocks and herds—very much cattle.¹⁰⁰ 12:39 And they baked cakes of unleavened bread with the dough that they had brought from Egypt, for it was not leavened—because they were thrust out¹⁰¹ of Egypt and were not able to tarry, neither¹⁰² could they prepare¹⁰³ food for themselves.

12:40 Now the time of the dwelling of the Israelites, who lived in Egypt, was 430 years.¹⁰⁴ 12:41 And at the end of the 430 years, on the same day, all the divisions of Yahweh went out of the land of Egypt. 12:42 It was a night of watching for Yahweh to bring them out from the land of Egypt;¹⁰⁵ and so¹⁰⁶ on this night all Israel is to keep the vigil¹⁰⁷ to Yahweh for generations to come.

12:43 And Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner may¹⁰⁹ share in eating it.¹¹⁰ 12:44 But every man’s servant that is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, he may eat, 12:45 A foreigner and a hired worker must not eat of it. 12:46 It must be eaten in one house; you will not carry it about outside from one house to another. Neither will you break a bone of it. 12:47 The congregation of Israel will keep it.

12:48 And when a stranger will live¹¹¹ with you, and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised,¹¹² and then let him come near and keep it, and he will be as one who is born in the land¹¹³—for no uncircumcised person will eat of it. 12:49 The same law will apply¹¹⁴ to him that is native-born and to the stranger who lives among you.

12:50 So all the Israelites did just as Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron—so did they. 12:51 And on that very day Yahweh brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.