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And the LORD spoke unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
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This month
shall be unto you the beginning of the months; it
shall be the first month of the year to you.
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Speak unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth
day of this month let each man take a lamb according to the families of the fathers, a lamb per family;
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and if the household is too small and
is not
able to eat the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take
it according to the number of persons; each one according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
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The lamb shall be without blemish, a male of one 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 between the two evenings.
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And they shall take of the blood and put
it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses in which they shall eat it.
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And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread;
and with bitter
herbs they shall eat it.
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Eat none of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roast
with fire, his head with his legs, and with the entrails thereof.
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And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remains 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
among man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I
am the LORD.
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And this blood shall be to you for a sign 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 as a feast unto the LORD throughout your ages; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.
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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 whoever eats 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 a holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, except
that which every person 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 same day have I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore, shall ye observe this day for your ages by an ordinance forever.
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In the first
month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, ye shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening.
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For seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or born in the land.
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Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations ye shall eat unleavened bread.
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Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said unto them, Draw out and take lambs according to your families and sacrifice the passover.
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And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip
it in the blood that
is in the basin and touch the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that
is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
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For the LORD will pass through smiting the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood upon the lintel and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over that door and will not allow 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 forever.
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And it shall come to pass, when ye have entered into the land which the LORD will give you, according as he has 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 do you mean 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 sons of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses. Then the people bowed and worshipped.
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And the sons of Israel went away, and as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.