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1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: " |
2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2This month is to be the beginning of months for you; it is the first month of your year. |
3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month they must each select an animal of the flock according to their fathers' households, one animal per household. |
4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4If the household is too small for a whole animal, that person and the neighbor nearest his house are to select one based on the combined number of people; you should apportion the animal according to what each person will eat. |
5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5You must have an unblemished animal, a year-old male; you may take it from either the sheep or the goats. |
6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6You are to keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight. |
7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7They must take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses where they eat them. |
8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8They are to eat the meat that night; they should eat it, roasted over the fire along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. |
9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Do not eat any of it raw or cooked in boiling water, but only roasted over fire--its head as well as its legs and inner organs. |
10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Do not let any of it remain until morning; you must burn up any part of it that does remain before morning. |
11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11Here is how you must eat it: you must be dressed for travel, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in a hurry; it is the LORD's Passover." |
12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night and strike every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. I am Yahweh; I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. |
13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13The blood on the houses where you are staying will be a distinguishing mark for you; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will be among you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt." |
14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14This day is to be a memorial for you, and you must celebrate it as a festival to the LORD. You are to celebrate it throughout your generations as a permanent statute. |
15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15You must eat unleavened bread for seven days. On the first day you must remove yeast from your houses. Whoever eats what is leavened from the first day through the seventh day must be cut off from Israel. |
16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16You are to hold a sacred assembly on the first day and another sacred assembly on the seventh day. No work may be done on those days except for preparing what people need to eat--you may do only that." |
17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17You are to observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread because on this very day I brought your divisions out of the land of Egypt. You must observe this day throughout your generations as a permanent statute. |
18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18You are to eat unleavened bread in the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day of the month until the evening of the twenty-first day. |
19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 19Yeast must not be found in your houses for seven days. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreign resident or native of the land, must be cut off from the community of Israel. |
20[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20Do not eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes." |
21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go, select an animal from the flock according to your families, and slaughter the Passover animal. |
22[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and brush the lintel and the two doorposts with some of the blood in the basin. None of you may go out the door of his house until morning. |
23[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23When the LORD passes through to strike Egypt and sees the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts, He will pass over the door and not let the destroyer enter your houses to strike you." |
24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24Keep this command permanently as a statute for you and your descendants. |
25[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as He promised, you are to observe this ritual. |
26[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26When your children ask you, 'What does this ritual mean to you?' |
27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27you are to reply, 'It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, for He passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and spared our homes.'" So the people bowed down and worshiped. |
28[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Then the Israelites went and did this; they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron. |
29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29Now at midnight the LORD struck every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon, and every firstborn of the livestock. |
30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30During the night Pharaoh got up, he along with all his officials and all the Egyptians, and there was a loud wailing throughout Egypt because there wasn't a house without someone dead. |
31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31He summoned Moses and Aaron during the night and said, "Get up, leave my people, both you and the Israelites, and go, worship Yahweh as you have asked. |
32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Take even your flocks and your herds as you asked and leave, and also bless me." |
33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33Now the Egyptians pressured the people in order to send them quickly out of the country, for they said, "We're all going to die!" |
34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls wrapped up in their clothes on their shoulders. |
35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35The Israelites acted on Moses' word and asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing. |
36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36And the LORD gave the people such favor in the Egyptians' sight that they gave them what they requested. In this way they plundered the Egyptians. |
37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37The Israelites traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about 600,000 soldiers on foot, besides their families. |
38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38An ethnically diverse crowd also went up with them, along with a huge number of livestock, both flocks and herds. |
39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39The people baked the dough they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves, since it had no yeast; for when they had been driven out of Egypt they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves. |
40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40The time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years. |
41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41At the end of 430 years, on that same day, all the LORD's divisions went out from the land of Egypt. |
42[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 42It was a night of vigil in honor of the LORD, because He would bring them out of the land of Egypt. This same night is in honor of the LORD, a night vigil for all the Israelites throughout their generations. |
43[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 43The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner may eat it. |
44[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 44But any slave a man has purchased may eat it, after you have circumcised him. |
45[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 45A temporary resident or hired hand may not eat the Passover. |
46[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 46It is to be eaten in one house. You may not take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of its bones. |
47[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 47The whole community of Israel must celebrate it. |
48[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 48If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD's Passover, every male in his household must be circumcised, and then he may participate; he will become like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat it. |
49[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 49The same law will apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you." |
50[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 50Then all the Israelites did this; they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron. |
51[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 51On that same day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt according to their divisions. |
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