Exodus 12:22-51 ▼

22 and you have taken a bunch of hyssop, and have dipped [it] in the blood which [is] in the basin, and have struck [it] on the lintel, and on the two doorposts, from the blood which [is] in the basin, and you, you do not go out—each from the opening of his house—until morning.

23 And YHWH has passed on to strike the Egyptians, and has seen the blood on the lintel, and on the two doorposts, and YHWH has passed over the opening, and does not permit the destruction to come into your houses to strike.

24 And you have observed this thing for a statute to you and to your sons for all time;

25 and it has been, when you come to the land which YHWH gives to you as He has spoken, that you have kept this service;

26 and it has come to pass, when your sons say to you, What [is] this service you have?

27 That you have said, 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 bow and pay respect, and the sons of Israel go and do as YHWH commanded Moses and Aaron; so they have done.

29 And it comes to pass, at midnight, that YHWH has struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who is sitting on his throne, to the firstborn of the captive who [is] in the prison-house, and every firstborn of beasts.

30 And Pharaoh rises by night, he and all his servants, and all the Egyptians, and there is a great cry in Egypt, for there is not a house where there is not [one] dead,

31 and he calls for Moses and for Aaron by night and says, “Rise, go out from the midst 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 have also blessed me.”

33 And the Egyptians are urgent on the people, hastening to send them away out of the land, for they said, “We are all dead”;

34 and the people take up their dough before it is fermented, their kneading-troughs [are] bound up in their garments on their shoulder.

35 And the sons of Israel have done according to the word of Moses, and they ask for vessels of silver and vessels of gold, and garments, from the Egyptians;

36 and YHWH has given the grace of the people in the eyes of the Egyptians, and they cause them to ask, and they spoil the Egyptians.

37 And the sons of Israel journey from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, apart from infants;

38 and a great rabble has also gone up with them, and flock and herd—very much livestock.

39 And they bake unleavened cakes with the dough which they have brought out from Egypt, for it has not fermented; for they have been cast out of Egypt, and have not been able to delay, and also they have not made provision for themselves.

40 And the dwelling of the sons of Israel [in] which they have dwelt in Egypt [is] four hundred and thirty years;

41 and it comes to pass, at the end of four hundred and thirty years—indeed, it comes to pass on this very same day—all the hosts of YHWH have gone out from the land of Egypt.

42 It [is] a night of watchings to YHWH, to bring them out from the land of Egypt; it [is] this night of watchings to YHWH to all the sons of Israel throughout their generations.

43 And YHWH says to Moses and Aaron, “This [is] a statute of the Passover; any son of a stranger does 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 does not eat of it;

46 it is eaten in one house, you do not carry out of the house [any] of the flesh outside, and you do not break a bone of it;

47 all the congregation of Israel keeps 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 comes near to keep it, and he has been as a native of the land, but any uncircumcised one does not eat of it;

49 one law is to a native, and to a sojourner who is sojourning in your midst.”

50 And all the sons of Israel do as YHWH commanded Moses and Aaron; so they have done.

51 And it comes to pass on this very same day, YHWH has brought out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt by their hosts.