Exodus 12:1-13 ▼

1 And YHWH speaks 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 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 has taken, 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 has become a charge to you, until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel has slaughtered it between the evenings;

7 and they have taken of the blood, and have put [it] on the two doorposts, and on the lintel over the houses in which they eat it.

8 And they have eaten the flesh in this night, a roast with fire; they eat it with unleavened things and bitters;

9 you do 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 do not leave of it until morning, and that which is remaining of it until morning you 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 have eaten it in haste; it is YHWH’s Passover,

12 and I have passed over through the land of Egypt during this night, and have struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from man even to beast, and I do judgments on all the gods of Egypt; I [am] YHWH.

13 And the blood has become a sign for you on the houses where you [are], and I have seen the blood, and have passed over you, and a plague is not on you for destruction in My striking in the land of Egypt.