¹The LORD 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 .

³Speak 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 ;

⁴and if the household is too little for a lamb , then he and his neighbour next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls . You shall make your count for the lamb according to what everyone can eat .

⁵Your lamb shall be without defect , a male a year old . You shall take it from the sheep or from the goats .

⁶You 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 .

⁷They 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 .

⁸They shall eat the meat in that night , roasted with fire, with unleavened bread . They shall eat it with bitter herbs .

⁹Don’t eat it raw , nor boiled at all with water , but roasted with fire; with its head , its legs and its inner parts .

¹⁰You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning ; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.

¹¹This 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 eat it in haste : it is the LORD ’s Passover .

¹²For 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 judgements against all the gods of Egypt . I am the LORD .

¹³The blood shall be to you for a token on 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 .

¹⁴This day shall be a memorial for you . You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD . 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 .

¹⁶In 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 .

¹⁷You 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 .

¹⁸In 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 .

¹⁹There 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.

²⁰You shall eat nothing leavened . In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread .’”

²¹Then 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 .

²²You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin , and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the basin . None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning .

²³For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians ; and when he sees the blood on the lintel , and on the two door posts , the LORD will pass over the door , and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you .

²⁴You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever .

²⁵It shall happen when you have come to the land which the LORD will give you , as he has promised , that you shall keep this service .

²⁶It will happen , when your children ask you , ‘What do you mean by this service ?’

²⁷that you 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 struck the Egyptians , and spared our houses .’”

The people bowed their heads and worshipped .

²⁸The children of Israel went and did so ; as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did .

²⁹At midnight , the LORD 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.

³⁰Pharaoh 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 .

³¹He called for Moses and Aaron by night , and said , “Rise up , get out from amongst my people , both you and the children of Israel ; and go , serve the LORD , as you have said !

³²Take both your flocks and your herds , as you have said , and be gone ; and bless me also !”

³³The Egyptians were urgent with the people , to send them out of the land in haste , for they said, “We are all dead men .”

³⁴The people took their dough before it was leavened , their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders .

³⁵The 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 .

³⁶The LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians , so that they let them have what they asked . They plundered the Egyptians .

³⁷The children of Israel travelled from Rameses to Succoth , about six hundred thousand on foot who were men , in addition to children .

³⁸A mixed multitude went up also with them , with flocks , herds , and even very much livestock .

³⁹They 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 .

⁴⁰Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years .

⁴¹At the end of four hundred and thirty years , to the day , all of the LORD ’s armies went out from the land of Egypt .

⁴²It is a night to be much observed to the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt . This is that night of the LORD , to be much observed by all the children of Israel throughout their generations .

⁴³The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover . No foreigner shall eat of it ,

⁴⁴but every man ’s servant who is bought for money , when you have circumcised him , then shall he eat of it .

⁴⁵A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it .

⁴⁶It 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 .

⁴⁷All the congregation of Israel shall keep it .

⁴⁸When a stranger lives as a foreigner with you , and would like to keep the Passover to the LORD , 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 .

⁴⁹One law shall be to him who is born at home , and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner amongst you .”

⁵⁰All the children of Israel did so . As the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did .

⁵¹That same day , the LORD brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies .