1 And YHWH spoke to Moses and to Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 “This month is the chief of months to you—it is the first of the months of the year to you. 3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth of this month they will take to themselves, each man, a lamb for the house of the fathers, a lamb for a house. 4 And if the household is too few for a lamb, then he will take, he and his neighbor who is near to his house, for the number of persons, each according to his eating you count for the lamb. 5 A lamb, a perfect one, a male, a son of a year, let it be to you. You take it from the sheep or from the goats. 6 And it will become a charge to you, until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter it between the evenings. 7 And they will take of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts, and on the lintel over the houses in which they eat it. 8 And they will eat the flesh in this night, a roast with fire. They will eat it with unleavened things and bitters. 9 You will not eat of it raw, or boiled in water at all, but a roast with fire, its head with its legs, and with its innards. 10 And you will not leave of it until morning, and that which is remaining of it until morning you will burn with fire. 11 And thus you eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and you will eat it in haste. It is YHWH’s Passover, 12 and I will pass over through the land of Egypt during this night, and will strike every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from man even to beast, and I will do judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am YHWH. 13 And the blood will become a sign for you on the houses where you are, and I will see the blood, and will pass over you, and a plague will not be on you for destruction in My striking in the land of Egypt. 14 And this day will become a memorial to you, and you will keep it for a celebration to YHWH throughout your generations—a continuous statute. You will keep it for a celebration. 15 Seven days you will eat unleavened things. Only—in the first day you cause leaven to cease out of your houses. For anyone eating anything fermented from the first day until the seventh day, indeed, that person will be cut off from Israel. 16 And in the first day is a holy convocation, and in the seventh day you will 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, 17 and you will observe the Unleavened Things, for in this very day I will bring out your hosts from the land of Egypt, and you will observe this day throughout your generations—a continuous statute. 18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, you will eat unleavened things until the twenty-first day of the month, at evening. 19 Seven days leaven will not be found in your houses, for anyone eating anything fermented—that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, among the sojourners or among the natives of the land. 20 You will not eat anything fermented—in all your settlements you will eat only unleavened things.” 21 And Moses called for all the elderly of Israel and said to them, “Draw out and take for yourselves from the flock, for your families, and slaughter the Passover-sacrifice. 22 And you will take a bunch of hyssop, and will dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and will strike it on the lintel, and on the two doorposts, from the blood which is in the basin, and you, you will not go out—each from the opening of his house—until morning. 23 And YHWH will pass on to strike the Egyptians, and will see the blood on the lintel, and on the two doorposts, and YHWH will pass over the opening, and will not permit the destruction to come into your houses to strike. 24 And you will observe this thing for a statute to you and to your sons to a distant age. 25 And it will be, when you come to the land which YHWH gives to you as He has spoken, that you will keep this service. 26 And it will come to pass, when your sons say to you, What is this service you have? 27 That you will say, It is a sacrifice of Passover to YHWH, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt, in His striking the Egyptians, and our houses He delivered.” 28 And the people bowed and payed respect, and the sons of Israel go and did as YHWH commanded Moses and Aaron. So they had done. 29 And it came to pass, at midnight, that YHWH had 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 who was in the prison-house, and every firstborn of beasts. 30 And Pharaoh rose by 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 for Aaron by night and said, “Rise, go out from the middle of my people, both you and the sons of Israel, and go, serve YHWH according to your word. 32 Take both your flock and your herd as you have spoken, and go. Then you will also bless me.” 33 And the Egyptians were urgent on the people, hastening to send them away out of the land, for they said, “We are all dead.” 34 And the people took up their dough before it was fermented, their kneading-troughs were bound up in their garments on their shoulder. 35 And the sons of Israel did according to the word of Moses, and they asked for vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and garments, from the Egyptians. 36 And YHWH had given the grace of the people in the eyes of the Egyptians, and they caused them to ask, and they spoiled the Egyptians. 37 And the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about 600,000 men on foot, apart from infants. 38 And a great rabble had also gone up with them, and flock and herd—very much livestock. 39 And they baked unleavened cakes with the dough which they had brought out from Egypt, for it had not fermented. For they had been thrown out of Egypt, and had not been able to delay, and also they had not made provision for themselves. 40 And the staying of the sons of Israel in which they had stayed in Egypt was 430 years. 41 And it came to pass, at the end of 430 years—indeed, it came to pass on this very same day—all the hosts of YHWH had gone out from the land of Egypt. 42 It was a night of watchings to YHWH, to bring them out from the land of Egypt. It was this night of watchings to YHWH to all the sons of Israel throughout their generations. 43 And YHWH said to Moses and Aaron, “This is a statute of the Passover. Any son of a stranger will not eat of it. 44 And any man’s servant, the purchase of money, when you have circumcised him—then he eats of it. 45 A settler or hired servant will not eat of it. 46 It is eaten in one house, you will not carry out of the house any of the flesh outside, and you will not break a bone of it. 47 All the congregation of Israel will keep it. 48 And when a sojourner sojourns with you, and has made a Passover to YHWH, every male of his is to be circumcised, and then he will come near to keep it, and he will be as a native of the land, but any uncircumcised one will not eat of it. 49 One law is to a native, and to a sojourner who is sojourning in your middle.” 50 And all the sons of Israel did as YHWH commanded Moses and Aaron. So they had done. 51 And it came to pass on this very same day, YHWH had brought out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt by their hosts.