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Chapter 12 |
| 1 | And the LORD
spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying, |
| 2 | This month
shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the
year to you. |
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| Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In
the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according
to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house: |
| 4 | And if the
household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next unto his
house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his
eating shall make your count for the lamb. |
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5 | Your lamb shall be
without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep,
or from the goats: |
| 6 | And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth
day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel
shall kill it in the evening. |
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7 | And they shall take of the blood, and
strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses,
wherein they shall eat it. |
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8 | And they shall eat the flesh in that
night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall
eat it. |
| 9 |
Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast
with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof. |
| 10 |
And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which
remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. |
| 11 | And thus
shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your
staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD's
passover. |
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| For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and
will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and
against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
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| 13 | And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are:
and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be
upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. |
| 14 | And this
day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD
throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for
ever. |
| 15 |
Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day
ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth 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 an holy convocation,
and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of
work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may
be done of you. |
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17 | And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread;
for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt:
therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for
ever. |
| 18 |
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at
even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the
month at even. |
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19 | Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your
houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be
cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in
the land. |
| 20
| Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations
shall ye eat unleavened bread. |
| 21 | Then Moses called for all the
elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to
your families, and kill the passover. |
| 22 | And ye 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 at the door of his house until the morning. |
| 23 | For the LORD
will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the
lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will
not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you. |
| 24 |
And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for
ever. |
| 25 |
And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which
the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this
service. |
| 26
| And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say
unto you, What mean ye by this service? |
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27 | That ye shall say, It is
the sacrifice of the LORD'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 worshipped. |
| 28 | And the
children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and
Aaron, so did they. |
| 29 | And it came to pass, that at midnight the
LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of
Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in
the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. |
| 30 | 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. |
| 31
| And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said,
Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of
Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said. |
| 32 | Also take
your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me
also. |
| 33 |
And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might
send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
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| 34 | And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their
kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
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| 35 | And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they
borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and
raiment: |
| 36
| And the LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the
Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they
spoiled the Egyptians. |
| 37 | And the children of Israel journeyed from
Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside
children. |
| 38
| And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks,
and herds, even very much cattle. |
| 39 | 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 victual. |
| 40 | Now the
sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and
thirty years. |
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41 | And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred
and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of
the LORD went out from the land of Egypt. |
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42 | It is a night to be much
observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is
that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their
generations. |
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43 | And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the
ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof: |
| 44 | But
every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him,
then shall he eat thereof. |
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45 | A foreigner and an hired servant shall
not eat thereof. |
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46 | In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not
carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break
a bone thereof. |
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47 | All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
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| 48 | And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover
to the LORD, 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: for no uncircumcised
person shall eat thereof. |
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49 | One law shall be to him that is
homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you. |
| 50 | Thus did
all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did
they. |
| 51 |
And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring
the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies. |
