Exodus 12:12-30

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¹² “On that same night I will pass through^(A) Egypt and strike down^(B) every firstborn^(C) of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods^(D) of Egypt. I am the Lord.^{(E) 13} The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over^(F) you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.^(G)

¹⁴ “This is a day you are to commemorate;^(H) for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance.^{(I) 15} For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast.^(J) On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off^(K) from Israel. ¹⁶ On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work^(L) at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.

¹⁷ “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread,^(M) because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt.^(N) Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.^{(O) 18} In the first month^(P) you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day. ¹⁹ For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner^(Q) or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off^(R) from the community of Israel. ²⁰ Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live,^(S) you must eat unleavened bread.”^(T)

²¹ Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover^(U) lamb. ²² Take a bunch of hyssop,^(V) dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood^(W) on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning. ²³ When the Lord goes through the land to strike^(X) down the Egyptians, he will see the blood^(Y) on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over^(Z) that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer^(AA) to enter your houses and strike you down.

²⁴ “Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance^(AB) for you and your descendants. ²⁵ When you enter the land^(AC) that the Lord will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony. ²⁶ And when your children^(AD) ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ ²⁷ then tell them, ‘It is the Passover^(AE) sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’”^(AF) Then the people bowed down and worshiped.^{(AG) 28} The Israelites did just what the Lord commanded^(AH) Moses and Aaron.

²⁹ At midnight^(AI) the Lord^(AJ) struck down all the firstborn^(AK) in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock^(AL) as well. ³⁰ Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing^(AM) in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.