Exodus 12:1-24
Read Exodus 12 in full →The Passover Lamb
12Now Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron in the land of 1Egypt, 2“aThis month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you. 3“Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a 1lamb for themselves, according to their fathers’ households, a 2lamb for 3each household. 4‘Now if the household is too small for a 1lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the 2number of persons in them; according to 3what each man should eat, you are to 4apportion the lamb. 5‘Your 1lamb shall be aa male, without blemish, a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 6‘1And you shall keep it until the afourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall slaughter it 2,bat twilight. 7‘aMoreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel 1of the houses in which they eat it. 8‘And they shall eat the flesh athat night, broasted with fire, and they shall eat it with cunleavened bread 1,dand bitter herbs. 9‘Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather aroasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with bits entrails. 10‘aAnd you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn with fire. 11‘Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste—it is athe Passover of Yahweh. 12‘And aI will go through the land of Egypt on that night and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and bagainst all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments—cI am Yahweh. 13‘aAnd the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and I will see the blood, and I will pass over you, and there shall be no plague among you 1to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
The Feast of Unleavened Bread
14‘Now athis day will be ba memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to Yahweh; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as 1,ca perpetual statute. 15‘aSeven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall 1remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, bthat 2person shall be cut off from Israel. 16‘aNow on the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten 1by every person, that alone may be done by you. 17‘You shall also keep athe Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this bvery day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall keep this day throughout your generations as 1,ca perpetual statute. 18‘aIn 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‘aSeven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that 1,bperson shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land. 20‘You shall not eat anything leavened; in all your places of habitation you shall eat unleavened bread.’”
21Then aMoses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “1Bring out and btake for yourselves 2lambs according to your families and slaughter cthe Passover lamb. 22“aAnd you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and 1touch some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts; and none of you shall go outside the doorway of his house until morning. 23“And aYahweh will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and He will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and Yahweh will pass over the doorway and will bnot allow the cdestroyer to come into your houses to smite you. 24“And ayou shall keep this event as a statute for you and your children forever.