Exodus 12:34-49

English Standard Version

³⁴So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders. ³⁵The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had ^(A)asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing. ³⁶^(B)And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that ^(C)they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.

³⁷And the ^(D)people of Israel journeyed from ^(E)Rameses to Succoth, ^(F)about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. ³⁸A ^(G)mixed multitude also went up with them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds. ³⁹And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because ^(H)they were thrust out of Egypt and ^(I)could not wait, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves.

⁴⁰The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years. ⁴¹At the end of ^(J)430 years, on that very day, all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt. ⁴²It was a night of watching by the Lord, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a ^(K)night of watching kept to the Lord by all the people of Israel throughout their generations.

Institution of the Passover

⁴³And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it, ⁴⁴but every slave^[a] that is ^(L)bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him. ⁴⁵^(M)No foreigner or hired worker may eat of it. ⁴⁶It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, and ^(N)you shall not break any of its bones. ⁴⁷^(O)All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. ⁴⁸^(P)If a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he ^(Q)shall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. ⁴⁹There shall be ^(R)one law for the native and for the ^(S)stranger who sojourns among you.”