Shemoth (Exodus) 12

Exod 12:1 And יהוה spoke to Mosheh and to Aharon in the land of
Mitsrayim, saying,
Exod 12:2 “This month is the beginning of months for you, it is the first
month of the year for you.
Exod 12:3 “Speak to all the congregation of Yisra’ĕl, saying, ‘On the tenth
day of this month each one of them is to take for himself a lamb, according to
the house of his father, a lamb for a household.
Exod 12:4 ‘And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his
neighbour next to his house take it according to the number of the beings,
according to each man’s need you make your count for the lamb.
Exod 12:5 ‘Let the lamb be a perfect one, a year old male. Take it from the
sheep or from the goats.
Exod 12:6 ‘And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month.
Then all the assembly of the congregation of Yisra’ĕl shall kill it between the
evenings.
Exod 12:7 ‘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 it.
Exod 12:8 ‘And they shall eat the flesh on that night, roasted in fire – with
unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Exod 12:9 ‘Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in
fire, its head with its legs and its inward parts.
Exod 12:10 ‘And do not leave of it until morning, and what remains of it
until morning you are to burn with fire.
Exod 12:11 ‘And this is how you eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on
your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the
Passover of יהוה.
Exod 12:12 ‘And I shall pass through the land of Mitsrayim on that night,
and shall smite all the first-born in the land of Mitsrayim, both man and
beast. And on all the mighty ones of Mitsrayim I shall execute judgment. I am
.יהוה
Exod 12:13 ‘And the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you
are. And when I see the blood, I shall pass over you, and let the plague not
come on you to destroy you when I smite the land of Mitsrayim.
Exod 12:14 ‘And this day shall become to you a remembrance. And you
shall observe it as a festival to יהוה throughout your generations – observe it
as a festival, an everlasting law.
Exod 12:15 ‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. Indeed on the first
day you cause leaven to cease from your houses. For whoever eats leavened
bread from the first day until the seventh day, that being shall be cut off from
Yisra’ĕl.
Exod 12:16 ‘And on the first day is a set-apart gathering, and on the seventh
day you have a set-apart gathering. No work at all is done on them, only that
which is eaten by every being, that alone is prepared by you.
Exod 12:17 ‘And you shall guard the Festival of Unleavened Bread, for on
this same day I brought your divisions out of the land of Mitsrayim. And you
shall guard this day throughout your generations, an everlasting law.
Exod 12:18 ‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the
evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the
month in the evening.
Exod 12:19 ‘For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses, for if
anyone eats what is leavened, that same being shall be cut off from the
congregation of Yisra’ĕl, whether sojourner or native of the land.
Exod 12:20 ‘Do not eat that which is leavened – in all your dwellings you
are to eat unleavened bread.’ ”
Exod 12:21 And Mosheh called for all the elders of Yisra’ĕl and said to
them, “Go out and take lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and
slaughter the Passover lamb.
Exod 12:22 “And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood
that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood
that is in the basin, and you, none of you shall go out of the door of his house
until morning.
Exod 12:23 “And יהוה shall pass on to smite the Mitsrites, and shall see the
blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and יהוה shall pass over the
door and not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you.
Exod 12:24 “And you shall guard this word as a law for you and your sons,
forever.
Exod 12:25 “And it shall be, when you come to the land which יהוה gives
you, as He promised, that you shall guard this service.
Exod 12:26 “And it shall be, when your children say to you, ‘What does this
service mean to you?’
Exod 12:27 then you shall say, ‘It is the Passover slaughtering of יהוה, who
passed over the houses of the children of Yisra’ĕl in Mitsrayim when He
smote the Mitsrites and delivered our households.’ ” And the people bowed
their heads and did obeisance.
Exod 12:28 And the children of Yisra’ĕl went away and did so – as יהוה had
commanded Mosheh and Aharon, so they did.
Exod 12:29 And it came to be at midnight that יהוה smote all the first-born in
the land of Mitsrayim, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to
the first-born of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the first-born of
livestock.
Exod 12:30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants, and all
the Mitsrites. And there was a great cry in Mitsrayim, for there was not a
house where there was not a dead one.
Exod 12:31 Then he called for Mosheh and Aharon by night, and said,
“Arise, go out from the midst of my people, both you and the children of
Yisra’ĕl. And go, serve יהוה as you have said.
Exod 12:32 “Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go.
Then you shall bless me too.”
Exod 12:33 And the Mitsrites urged the people, to hasten to send them away
out of the land. For they said, “We are all dying!”
Exod 12:34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, having
their kneading bowls bound up in their garments on their shoulders.
Exod 12:35 And the children of Yisra’ĕl had done according to the word of
Mosheh, and they had asked from the Mitsrites objects of silver, and objects
of gold, and garments.
Exod 12:36 And יהוה gave the people favour in the eyes of the Mitsrites, so
that they gave them what they asked, and they plundered the Mitsrites.
Exod 12:37 And the children of Yisra’ĕl set out from Ra‛meses to Sukkoth,
about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides the little ones.
Exod 12:38 And a mixed multitude went up with them too, also flocks and
herds, very much livestock.
Exod 12:39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they had
brought out of Mitsrayim, for it was not leavened, since they were driven out
of Mitsrayim, and had not been able to delay, nor had they prepared food for
themselves.
Exod 12:40 And the sojourn of the children of Yisra’ĕl who lived in
Mitsrayim was four hundred and thirty years.
Exod 12:41 And it came to be at the end of the four hundred and thirty years,
on that same day it came to be that all the divisions of יהוה went out from the
land of Mitsrayim.
Exod 12:42 It is a night to be observed unto יהוה for bringing them out of the
land of Mitsrayim. This night is unto יהוה, to be observed by all the children
of Yisra’ĕl throughout their generations.
Exod 12:43 And יהוה said to Mosheh and Aharon, “This is the law of the
Passover: No son of a stranger is to eat of it,
Exod 12:44 but any servant a man has bought for silver, when you have
circumcised him, then let him eat of it.
Exod 12:45 “A sojourner and a hired servant does not eat of it.
Exod 12:46 “It is eaten in one house, you are not to take any of the flesh
outside the house, nor are you to break any bone of it.
Exod 12:47 “All the congregation of Yisra’ĕl are to perform it.
Exod 12:48 “And when a stranger sojourns with you and shall perform the
Passover to יהוה, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near
and perform it, and he shall be as a native of the land. But let no
uncircumcised eat of it.
Exod 12:49 “There is one Torah for the native-born and for the stranger who
sojourns among you.”
Exod 12:50 And all the children of Yisra’ĕl did as יהוה commanded Mosheh
and Aharon, so they did.
Exod 12:51 And it came to be on that same day that יהוה brought the children
of Yisra’ĕl out of the land of Mitsrayim according to their divisions.