Exodus 12Book 2 of 66 · 51 verses · MBT primary, NKJV fallback where MBT pending

Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
This month shall be for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: On the tenth day of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household.
And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor nearest to his house take it according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
Your lamb shall be without blemish, an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight.
And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat the lamb.
They shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted over the fire, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Do not eat any of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire—its head with its legs and its inner parts.
You shall let none of it remain until morning, and anything that remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire.
And thus you shall eat it: with a belt fastened on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and you shall eat it in haste, for it is the LORD's Passover.
For I will pass 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 against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD.
The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live, and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
So this day shall be to you a memorial, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations as a permanent ordinance forever.
Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the first day you shall remove all leaven from your houses, for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
On the first day there shall be a sacred convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a sacred convocation for you; no work at all shall be done on those days, but what everyone needs to eat—that alone may be prepared by you.
So you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I will have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an everlasting ordinance.
In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, you shall eat unleavened bread until the evening of the twenty-first day of the month.
For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, since whoever eats what is leavened, that same person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner or a native of the land.
You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your homes you shall eat unleavened bread.
Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your families, and slaughter the Passover lamb.
You shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and brush the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin, and none of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.
For the LORD will pass through the land to strike the Egyptians, and when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.
And you shall observe this thing as a permanent ordinance for you and your sons forever.
And when you enter the land which the LORD will give you, just as He has promised, you shall observe this ceremony.
And it shall be, when your children ask you, 'What do you mean by this ceremony?'
You shall say, 'It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and spared our households.'" So the people bowed their heads and worshiped.
Then the people of Israel went away and did so; just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of livestock.
So Pharaoh rose in the night, he, all his officials, and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry throughout Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night, and said, "Rise, go out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel, and go, worship the LORD as you have said.
Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also.
And the Egyptians urgently pressured the people to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, "We shall all be dead."
So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls wrapped up in their clothes on their shoulders.
Now the children of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, and they had requested from the Egyptians articles of silver, articles of gold, and clothing.
And the LORD had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they gave them what they requested, and thus they plundered the Egyptians.
Then the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand able-bodied men on foot, besides women and children.
A mixed multitude went up with them also, along with flocks and herds—a very large number of livestock.
And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they had brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were driven out of Egypt and could not delay, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves.
Now the sojourn of the people of Israel who lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.
And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years—on that very same day—all the divisions of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
It is a night of vigil to be observed for the LORD for bringing them out of the land of Egypt; this same night of the LORD is a solemn observance for all the children of Israel throughout their generations.
And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover: No foreigner is allowed to eat it.
But every man's slave purchased with money, after you have circumcised him, then he may eat of it.
A temporary resident and a hired servant shall not eat it.
In one house it shall be eaten; you shall not carry any of the flesh outside the house, nor shall you break any of its bones.
The whole congregation of Israel shall celebrate it.
And when a stranger dwells with you and wants to celebrate the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as a native of the land. For no uncircumcised person shall eat it.
One law shall apply to the native-born and to the stranger who sojourns among you.
Thus all the children of Israel did just as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
And it came to pass, on that very same day, that the LORD brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt according to their divisions.