Exodus 12:1-13

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The Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread^(A)

12 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, ²“This month is to be for you the first month,^(B) the first month of your year. ³Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb^[a]^(C) for his family, one for each household.^(D) ⁴If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. ⁵The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect,^(E) and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. ⁶Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month,^(F) when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.^(G) ⁷Then they are to take some of the blood^(H) and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. ⁸That same night^(I) they are to eat the meat roasted^(J) over the fire, along with bitter herbs,^(K) and bread made without yeast.^(L) ⁹Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs.^(M) ¹⁰Do not leave any of it till morning;^(N) if some is left till morning, you must burn it. ¹¹This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste;^(O) it is the Lord’s Passover.^(P)

¹²“On that same night I will pass through^(Q) Egypt and strike down^(R) every firstborn^(S) of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods^(T) of Egypt. I am the Lord.^(U) ¹³The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over^(V) you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.^(W)

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Footnotes

Exodus 12:3 The Hebrew word can mean lamb or kid; also in verse 4.

Exodus 13:1-8

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Consecration of the Firstborn

13 The Lord said to Moses, ²“Consecrate to me every firstborn male.^(A) The first offspring of every womb among the Israelites belongs to me, whether human or animal.”

³Then Moses said to the people, “Commemorate this day, the day you came out of Egypt,^(B) out of the land of slavery, because the Lord brought you out of it with a mighty hand.^(C) Eat nothing containing yeast.^(D) ⁴Today, in the month of Aviv,^(E) you are leaving. ⁵When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites,^(F) Hittites, Amorites, Hivites and Jebusites^(G)—the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey^(H)—you are to observe this ceremony^(I) in this month: ⁶For seven days eat bread made without yeast and on the seventh day hold a festival^(J) to the Lord. ⁷Eat unleavened bread during those seven days; nothing with yeast in it is to be seen among you, nor shall any yeast be seen anywhere within your borders. ⁸On that day tell your son,^(K) ‘I do this because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’