Exodus 12
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- And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of
Egypt saying,
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- This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it
shall be the first month of the year to you.
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- Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In
the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb,
according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
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- And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him
and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the
souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
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- Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first
year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
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- And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the
same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill
it in the evening.
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- And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the
two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall
eat it.
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- And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with
fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
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- Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but
roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
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- And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning;
and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
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- And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your
shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in
haste: it is the LORD's passover.
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- For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night,
and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast;
and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
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- And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the
houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the
plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
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- And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye
shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep
it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
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- Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first
day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth
leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be
cut off from Israel.
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- And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation,
and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner
of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only
may be done of you.
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- And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for
in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt:
therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for
ever.
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- In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month
at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of
the month at even.
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- Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your
houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be
cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born
in the land.
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- Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations
shall ye eat unleavened bread.
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- Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said
unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill
the passover.
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- And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the
blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts
with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the
door of his house until the morning.
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- For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians;
and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the
LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in
unto your houses to smite you.
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- And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee
and to thy sons for ever.
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- And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land
which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall
keep this service.
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- And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say
unto you, What mean ye by this service?
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- That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD's
passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt,
when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed
the head and worshipped.
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- And the children of Israel went away, and did as the
LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
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- And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all
the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat
on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and
all the firstborn of cattle.
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- And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his
servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for
there was not a house where there was not one dead.
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- And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said,
Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of
Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
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- Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said,
and be gone; and bless me also.
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- And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they
might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
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- And the people took their dough before it was leavened,
their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
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- And the children of Israel did according to the word of
Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of
gold, and raiment:
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- And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the
Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And
they spoiled the Egyptians.
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- And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to
Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
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- And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and
flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
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- And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they
brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were
thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for
themselves any victual.
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- Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt
in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
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- And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and
thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of
the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
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- It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for
bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to
be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.
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- And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the
ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
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- But every man's servant that is bought for money, when
thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
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- A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
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- In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry
forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a
bone thereof.
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- All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
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- And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will
keep 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 one that is born in the
land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
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- One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the
stranger that sojourneth among you.
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- Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD
commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
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- And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did
bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
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