Exodus 12:1-30

Exodus 12:1-30

[1] And the LORD  spake  unto Moses  and Aaron  in the land  of Egypt,  saying,  [2] This month  shall be unto you the beginning  of months:  it shall be the first  month  of the year  to you. [3] Speak  ye unto all the congregation  of Israel,  saying,  In the tenth  day of this month  they shall take  to them every man  a lamb,  according to the house  of their fathers,  a lamb  for an house:  [4] And if the household  be  too little  for the lamb,  let him and his neighbour  next  unto his house  take  it according to the number  of the souls;  every man  according  to his eating  shall make your count  for the lamb.  [5] Your lamb  shall be without blemish,  a male  of the first  year:  ye shall take  it out from the sheep,  or from the goats:  [6] And ye shall keep  it up until the fourteenth  day  of the same month:  and the whole  assembly  of the congregation  of Israel  shall kill  it in  the evening.  [7] And they shall take  of the blood,  and strike  it on the two  side posts  and on the upper door post  of the houses,  wherein they shall eat  it. [8] And they shall eat  the flesh  in that night,  roast  with fire,  and unleavened bread;  and with bitter  herbs they shall eat  [9] Eat  not of it raw,  nor sodden  at all with water,  but roast  with fire;  his head  with his legs,  and with the purtenance  [10] And ye shall let nothing of it remain  until the morning;  and that which remaineth  of it until the morning  ye shall burn  with fire.  [11] And thus  shall ye eat  it; with your loins  girded,  your shoes  on your feet,  and your staff  in your hand;  and ye shall eat  it in haste:  it is the LORD'S  passover.  [12] For I will pass  through the land  of Egypt  this night,  and will smite  all the firstborn  in the land  of Egypt,  both man  and beast;  and against all the gods  of Egypt  I will execute  judgment:  I am the LORD.  [13] And the blood  shall be to you for a token  upon the houses  where ye are: and when I see  the blood,  I will pass  over you, and the plague  shall not be upon you to destroy  you, when I smite  the land  of Egypt.  [14] And this day  shall be unto you for a memorial;  and ye shall keep  it a feast  to the LORD  throughout your generations;  ye shall keep it a feast  by an ordinance  for ever.  [15] Seven  days  shall ye eat  unleavened bread;  even  the first  day  ye shall put away  leaven  out of your houses:  for whosoever eateth  leavened bread  from the first  day  until the seventh  day,  that soul  shall be cut  off from Israel.  [16] And in the first  day  there shall be an holy  convocation,  and in the seventh  day  there shall be an holy  convocation  to you; no manner of work  shall be done  in them, save  that which every man  must eat,  that only may be done  of you. [17] And ye shall observe  the feast of unleavened bread;  for in this selfsame  day  have I brought  your armies  out of the land  of Egypt:  therefore shall ye observe  this day  in your generations  by an ordinance  for ever.  [18] In the first  month, on the fourteenth  day  of the month  at even,  ye shall eat  unleavened bread,  until the one  and twentieth  day  of the month  at even.  [19] Seven  days  shall there be no leaven  found  in your houses:  for whosoever eateth  even that soul  shall be cut off  from the congregation  of Israel,  whether he be a stranger,  or born  in the land.  [20] Ye shall eat  in all your habitations  shall ye eat  unleavened bread.  [21] Then Moses  called  for all the elders  of Israel,  and said  unto them, Draw out  and take  you a lamb  according to your families,  and kill  the passover.  [22] And ye shall take  a bunch  of hyssop,  and dip  it in the blood  that is in the bason,  and strike  the lintel  and the two  side posts  with the blood  that is in the bason;  and none  of you shall go out  at the door  of his house  until the morning.  [23] For the LORD  will pass through  to smite  and when he seeth  the blood  upon the lintel,  and on the two  side posts,  the LORD  will pass over  the door,  and will not suffer  the destroyer  to come  in unto your houses  to smite  [24] And ye shall observe  this thing  for an ordinance  to thee and to thy sons  for  ever.  [25] And it shall come to pass, when ye be come  to the land  which the LORD  will give  you, according as he hath promised,  that ye shall keep  this service.  [26] And it shall come to pass, when your children  shall say  unto you, What mean ye by this service?  [27] That ye shall say,  It is the sacrifice  of the LORD'S  passover,  who passed  over the houses  of the children  of Israel  in Egypt,  when he smote  the Egyptians,  and delivered  our houses.  And the people  bowed the head  and worshipped.  [28] And the children  of Israel  and did  as the LORD  had commanded  Moses  and Aaron,  so did  they. [29] And it came to pass, that at midnight  the LORD  smote  all the firstborn  in the land  of Egypt,  from the firstborn  of Pharaoh  that sat  on his throne  unto the firstborn  of the captive  that was in the dungeon;  and all the firstborn  of cattle.  [30] And Pharaoh  rose up  in the 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.