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The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Exodus 12
1 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in
the land of Egypt, saying,
2 “This month shall be to you the beginning of months.
It shall be the first month
of the year to you.
3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel,
saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month,
they shall take to them every man a lamb,
according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb
for a household;
4 and if the household is too little for a
lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his
house shall take one according to the number ofthe souls.
You shall make your count
for the lamb according to what everyone
can eat.
5 Your lamb shall be without defect, a
male a year old. You shall take it from the
sheep or from the goats.
6 You shall keep it until the fourteenth
day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall
kill it at evening.
7 They shall take some of the blood, and
put it on the two door posts and on the
lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat
it.
8 They shall eat the meat in that night,
roasted with fire, with unleavened bread.
They shall eat it with bitter herbs.
9 Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with
water, but roasted with fire; with its head,
its legs and its inner parts.
10 You shall let nothing of it remain until
the morning; but that which remains of it
until the morning you shall burn with fire.
11 This is how you shall eat it: with your
belt on your waist, your sandals on your
feet, and your staff in your hand; and you
shall eatitin haste: itis Yahweh’s Passover.
12 For I will go through the land of Egypt
in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the
land of Egypt, both man and
animal. I will execute judgments against
all the gods of Egypt. I am Yahweh.
13 The blood shall be to you for a tokenon
the houses where you are. When I see the
blood, I will pass over you, and no plague
will be on you to destroy you when I strike
the land of Egypt.
14 This day shall be a memorial for you.
You shall keep it as a feast to Yahweh. You
shall keep it as a feast throughout your
generations by an ordinance forever.
15 “ ‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened
bread; even the first day you shall put
away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats
leavened bread from the first day
until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut
off from Israel.
16 In the first day there shall be to you a
holy convocation, and in the seventh day
a holy convocation; no kind of work shall
be done in them, except that which every
man must eat, only that may be done by
you.
17 You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread;
for in this same day I have
brought your armies out of the land of
Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this
day throughout your generations by an
ordinance forever.
18 In the first month, on the fourteenth
day of the month at evening, you shall eat
unleavened bread, until the twenty first
day of the month at evening.
19 There shall be no yeast found in your
houses for seven days, for whoever eats
that which is leavened, that soul shall be
cut off from the congregation of Israel,
whether he is a foreigner, or one who is
born in the land.
20 You shall eat nothing leavened. In all
your habitations you shall eat unleavened
bread.’ ”
21 Then Moses called for all the elders of
Israel, and said to them, “Draw out, and
take lambs according to your families, and
kill the Passover.
22 You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and
dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and
strike the lintel andthe twodoorposts with
the blood that is in the basin. None of you
shall go out of the door of his house until
the morning.
23 For Yahweh will pass through to strike
the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood
on the lintel, and on the two door posts,
Yahweh will pass over the door, and will
not allow the destroyer to come in to your
houses to strike you.
24 You shall observe this thing for an
ordinance to you and to your sons forever.
25 It shall happen when you have come
to the land which Yahweh will give you, as
he has promised, that you shall keep this
service.
26 It will happen, when your children ask
you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’
27 that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of
Yahweh’s Passover, who passed over the
houses of the children of Israel in Egypt,
when he struck the Egyptians, and spared
our houses.’ ”
The people bowed their heads and worshiped.
28 The children of Israel went and did
so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and
Aaron, so they did.
29 At midnight, Yahweh struck all the
firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the
firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne
to the firstborn of the captive who was
in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of
livestock.
30 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 He called for Moses and Aaron by
night, and said, “Rise up, get out from
among my people, both you and the children of
Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as
you have said!
32 Take both your flocks and your herds,
as you have said, and be gone; and bless
me also!”
33 The Egyptians were urgent with the
people, to send them out of the land in
haste, for they said, “We are all dead men.”
34 The people took their dough before
it was leavened, their kneading troughs
being bound up in their clothes on their
shoulders.
35 The children of Israel did according
to the word of Moses; and they asked of
the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels
of gold, and clothing.
36 Yahweh gave the people favor in the
sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them
have what they asked. They plundered the
Egyptians.
37 The children of Israel traveled from
Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred
thousand on foot who were men, in addition to children.
38 A mixed multitude went up also with
them, with flocks, herds, and even very
much livestock.
39 They baked unleavened cakes of the
dough which they brought out of Egypt;
for it wasn’t leavened, because they were
thrust out of Egypt, and couldn’t wait, and
they had not prepared any food for themselves.
40 Now the time that the children of Israel lived in
Egypt was four hundred thirty
years.
41 At the end of four hundred thirty
years, to the day, all of Yahweh’s armies
went out from the land of Egypt.
42 It is a night to be much observed to
Yahweh for bringing them out from the
land of Egypt. This is that night of Yahweh,
to be much observed by all the children of
Israel throughout their generations.
43 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron,
“This is the ordinance of the Passover. No
foreigner shall eat of it,
44 but every man’s servant who is bought
for money, when you have circumcised
him, then shall he eat of it.
45 A foreigner and a hired servant shall
not eat of it.
46 It must be eaten in one house. You
shall not carry any of the meat outside of
the house. Do not break any of its bones.
47 All the congregation of Israel shall
keep it.
48 When a stranger lives as a foreigner
with you, and would like to keep the
Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be
circumcised, and then let him come near
and keep it. He shall be as one who is born
in the land; but no uncircumcised person
shall eat of it.
49 One law shall be to him who is born
at home, and to the stranger who lives as
a foreigner among you.”
50 All the children of Israel did so. As
Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so
they did.
51 That same day, Yahweh brought the
children of Israel out of the land of Egypt
by their armies.
Word English Bible
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