12:1The Lord also said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: "This month is for you the beginning of months: it will be first among the months of the year. 12:3Speak to all the assembly of the sons of Israel, and say to them: 'On the tenth day of this month let each take a lamb by their families and houses. 12:4But if the number is too small to be able to suffice for eating the lamb, he will take to himself his neighbour who is joined to his house, according to the number of souls which can suffice for the eating of the lamb. 12:5And the lamb will be without blemish, a male, a year old: according to which rite you will also take a kid.
12:6And you will keep it until the fourteenth day of this month: and the whole multitude of the sons of Israel will sacrifice it at evening. 12:7And they will take of its blood, and put it upon each doorpost, and on the lintels of the houses, in which they will eat it. 12:8And they will eat the flesh that night roasted with fire, and unleavened loaves with wild lettuces. 12:9You will not eat of it anything raw, nor boiled in water, but only roasted with fire: the head with its feet and entrails you will devour. 12:10Nor will anything of it remain until morning; 12:10if anything is left over, you will burn it with fire.
12:11And thus you will eat it: you will gird your loins, and you will have shoes on your feet, holding staffs in your hands, and you will eat in haste: for it is the Phase (that is, the passing) of the Lord. 12:12And I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike every firstborn in the land of Egypt from man to beast: and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgements. 12:12I am the Lord. 12:13And the blood will be for you as a sign in the houses in which you will be: and I will see the blood, and I will pass over you: nor will there be among you a destroying plague when I strike the land of Egypt.
12:14And you will have this day as a memorial: and you will celebrate it as solemn to the Lord in your generations with an everlasting worship. 12:15For seven days you will eat unleavened bread: on the first day there will be no leaven in your houses: whoever eats leavened bread, that soul will perish from Israel, from the first day to the seventh day. 12:16The first day will be holy and solemn, and the seventh day venerable with the same festivity: you will do no work on them, except those things which belong to eating. 12:17And you will observe the unleavened bread: for on that very same day I will lead your army out of the land of Egypt, and you will keep this day in your generations by a perpetual rite.
12:18In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you will eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the same month at evening. 12:19For seven days leaven will not be found in your houses: he who eats leavened bread, his soul will perish from the assembly of Israel, whether of the newcomers or of the natives of the land. 12:20Anything leavened you will not eat: in all your dwellings you will eat unleavened bread.'" 12:21And Moses called all the elders of the sons of Israel, and said to them: "Go, taking an animal by your families, and sacrifice the Phase. 12:22And dip a bunch of hyssop in the blood which is on the threshold, and sprinkle the lintel with it, and each doorpost: let none of you go out of the door of his house until morning.
12:23For the Lord will pass through striking the Egyptians: and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on each doorpost, he will pass over the door of the house, and will not allow the destroyer to go into your houses and harm you. 12:24Keep this word as lawful for you and for your sons for ever. 12:25And when you have gone into the land, which the Lord is going to give you as he has promised, you will observe these ceremonies. 12:26And when your sons say to you: 'What is this observance?' 12:27you will say to them: 'It is the victim of the passing of the Lord, when he passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt, striking the Egyptians, and freeing our houses.'"
12:27And the people, bowing down, worshipped. 12:28And the sons of Israel, having gone out, did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron. 12:29And it came about at the middle of the night, the Lord struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who was sitting on his throne, to the firstborn of the captive woman who was in prison, and every firstborn of beasts. 12:30And Pharaoh rose in the night, and all his servants, and all Egypt: and a great shout arose in Egypt: for there was not a house in which there was not lying one dead. 12:31And Pharaoh, having called Moses and Aaron in the night, said: "Rise and go out from my people, you and the sons of Israel: go, sacrifice to the Lord as you say.
12:32Take your sheep and herds as you had asked, and, going away, bless me." 12:33And the Egyptians were urging the people to go out of the land quickly, saying: "We shall all die." 12:34So the people took the flour sprinkled with water before it was leavened: and binding it in their cloaks, put it upon their shoulders. 12:35And the sons of Israel did as Moses had commanded: and they asked of the Egyptians vessels of silver and of gold, and very much clothing. 12:36And the Lord gave favour to the people before the Egyptians, so that they lent to them: and they plundered the Egyptians. 12:37And the sons of Israel set out from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides little ones.
12:38But also a mixed crowd beyond number went up with them, sheep and herds and living creatures of diverse kind, very many. 12:39And they baked the flour, which they had brought a little before from Egypt sprinkled with water: and they made unleavened loaves baked under the ashes: for they could not be leavened, the Egyptians forcing them to go out, and allowing them to make no delay: nor had it occurred to them to prepare any food. 12:40Now the dwelling of the sons of Israel, in which they stayed in Egypt, was of four hundred and thirty years. 12:41These having been completed, on the same day all the army of the Lord went out of the land of Egypt.
12:42This is the night to be observed of the Lord, when he led them out of the land of Egypt: this all the sons of Israel ought to observe in their generations. 12:43And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: "This is the observance of the Phase: no foreigner will eat of it. 12:44But every bought slave will be circumcised, and so he will eat. 12:45The newcomer and the hired man will not eat of it. 12:46In one house it will be eaten, nor will you carry any of its flesh outside, nor will you break a bone of it. 12:47All the assembly of the sons of Israel will do it.
12:48But if any of the strangers wishes to pass into your settlement, and to make the Phase of the Lord, every male of his will first be circumcised, and then he will duly celebrate it: and he will be as a native of the land: but if anyone has not been circumcised, he will not eat of it. 12:49The same law will be for the native and for the settler who sojourns among you." 12:50And all the sons of Israel did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron. 12:51And on the same day the Lord led the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their companies.