Exodus 12 · Clearspring

The First Passover

¹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, in the land of Egypt, saying,+ ²`This month is to you the chief of months--it is the first to you of the months of the year;+ ³speak ye unto all the company of Israel, saying, In the tenth of this month--they take to them each man a lamb for the house of the fathers, a lamb for a house.+ ⁴`(And if the household be too few for a lamb, then hath he taken, he and his neighbour who is near unto his house, for the number of persons, each according to his eating ye do count for the lamb,)+ ⁵a lamb, a perfect one, a male, a son of a year, let be to you; from the sheep or from the goats ye do take it.+ ⁶`And it hath become a charge to you, until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the company of Israel have slaughtered it between the evenings;+ ⁷and they have taken of the blood, and have put on the two side-posts, and on the lintel over the houses in which they eat it.+ ⁸`And they have eaten the flesh in this night, roast with fire; with unleavened things and bitters they do eat it;+ ⁹ye do not eat of it raw, or boiled at all in water, but roast with fire, its head with its legs, and with its inwards;+ ¹⁰and ye do not leave of it till morning, and that which is remaining of it till morning with fire ye do burn.+ ¹¹`And thus ye do eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and ye have eaten it in haste; it is Jehovah's passover,+ ¹²and I have passed over through the land of Egypt during this night, and have smitten every first-born in the land of Egypt, from man even unto beast, and on all the gods of Egypt I do judgments; I am Jehovah.+ ¹³`And the blood hath become a sign for you on the houses where ye are, and I have seen the blood, and have passed over you, and a plague is not on you for destruction in My smiting in the land of Egypt.+

The Feast of Unleavened Bread

Leviticus 23:4–8; Numbers 28:16–25; Deuteronomy 16:1–8

¹⁴`And this day hath become to you a memorial, and ye have kept it a feast to Jehovah to your generations; --a statute age-during; ye keep it a feast.+ ¹⁵Seven days ye eat unleavened things; only--in the first day ye cause leaven to cease out of your houses; for any one eating anything fermented from the first day till the seventh day, even that person hath been cut off from Israel.+ ¹⁶`And in the first day is a holy convocation, and in the seventh day ye have a holy convocation; any work is not done in them, only that which is eaten by any person--it alone is done by you,+ ¹⁷and ye have observed the unleavened things, for in this self-same day I have brought out your hosts from the land of Egypt, and ye have observed this day to your generations--a statute age-during.+ ¹⁸`In the first month, in the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, ye do eat unleavened things until the one and twentieth day of the month, at evening;+ ¹⁹seven days leaven is not found in your houses, for any one eating anything fermented--that person hath been cut off from the company of Israel, among the sojourners or among the natives of the land;+ ²⁰anything fermented ye do not eat, in all your dwellings ye do eat unleavened things.'+ ²¹And Moses calleth for all the elders of Israel, and saith unto them, `Draw out and take for yourselves from the flock, for your families, and slaughter the passover-sacrifice;+ ²²and ye have taken a bunch of hyssop, and have dipped it in the blood which is in the basin, and have struck it on the lintel, and on the two side-posts, from the blood which is in the basin, and ye, ye go not out each from the opening of his house till morning.+ ²³`And Jehovah hath passed on to smite the Egyptians, and hath seen the blood on the lintel, and on the two side-posts, and Jehovah hath passed over the opening, and doth not permit the destruction to come into your houses to smite.+ ²⁴`And ye have observed this thing, for a statute to thee, and to thy sons--unto the age;+ ²⁵and it hath been, when ye come in unto the land which Jehovah giveth to you, as He hath spoken, that ye have kept this service;+ ²⁶and it hath come to pass when your sons say unto you, What is this service ye have?+ ²⁷that ye have said, A sacrifice of passover it is to Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt, in His smiting the Egyptians, and our houses He delivered.'+ ²⁸And the people bow and do obeisance, and the sons of Israel go and do as Jehovah commanded Moses and Aaron; so have they done.+

The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn

²⁹And it cometh to pass, at midnight, that Jehovah hath smitten every first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who is sitting on his throne, unto the first-born of the captive who is in the prison-house, and every first-born of beasts.+ ³⁰And Pharaoh riseth by night, he and all his servants, and all the Egyptians, and there is a great cry in Egypt, for there is not a house where there is not one dead,+

The Exodus Begins

³¹and he calleth for Moses and for Aaron by night, and saith, `Rise, go out from the midst of my people, both ye and the sons of Israel, and go, serve Jehovah according to your word;+ ³²both your flock and your herd take ye, as ye have spoken, and go; then ye have blessed also me.'+ ³³And the Egyptians are urgent on the people, hasting to send them away out of the land, for they said, `We are all dead;'+ ³⁴and the people taketh up its dough before it is fermented, their kneading-troughs are bound up in their garments on their shoulder.+ ³⁵And the sons of Israel have done according to the word of Moses, and they ask from the Egyptians vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and garments;+ ³⁶and Jehovah hath given the grace of the people in the eyes of the Egyptians, and they cause them to ask, and they spoil the Egyptians.+ ³⁷And the sons of Israel journey from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, apart from infants;+ ³⁸and a great rabble also hath gone up with them, and flock and herd--very much cattle.+ ³⁹And they bake with the dough which they have brought out from Egypt unleavened cakes, for it hath not fermented; for they have been cast out of Egypt, and have not been able to delay, and also provision they have not made for themselves.+ ⁴⁰And the dwelling of the sons of Israel which they have dwelt in Egypt is four hundred and thirty years;+ ⁴¹and it cometh to pass, at the end of four hundred and thirty years--yea, it cometh to pass in this self-same day--all the hosts of Jehovah have gone out from the land of Egypt.+ ⁴²A night of watchings it is to Jehovah, to bring them out from the land of Egypt; it is this night to Jehovah of watchings to all the sons of Israel to their generations.+

Instructions for the Passover

⁴³And Jehovah saith unto Moses and Aaron, `This is a statute of the passover; Any son of a stranger doth not eat of it;+ ⁴⁴and any man's servant, the purchase of money, when thou hast circumcised him--then he doth eat of it;+ ⁴⁵a settler or hired servant doth not eat of it;+ ⁴⁶in one house it is eaten, thou dost not carry out of the house any of the flesh without, and a bone ye do not break of it;+ ⁴⁷all the company of Israel do keep it.+ ⁴⁸`And when a sojourner sojourneth with thee, and hath made a passover to Jehovah, every male of his is to be circumcised, and then he doth come near to keep it, and he hath been as a native of the land, but any uncircumcised one doth not eat of it;+ ⁴⁹one law is to a native, and to a sojourner who is sojourning in your midst.'+ ⁵⁰And all the sons of Israel do as Jehovah commanded Moses and Aaron; so have they done.+ ⁵¹And it cometh to pass in this self-same day, Jehovah hath brought out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, by their hosts.+

The First Passover

The Feast of Unleavened Bread

The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn

The Exodus Begins

Instructions for the Passover

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