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1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
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The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
2 “This month will be the first month; it will be the first month of the year for you.
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“This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you.
3 Tell the whole Israelite community: On the tenth day of this month they must take a lamb for each household, a lamb per house.
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Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household.
4 If a household is too small for a lamb, it should share one with a neighbor nearby. You should divide the lamb in proportion to the number of people who will be eating it.
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And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
5 Your lamb should be a flawless year-old male. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
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Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats,
6 You should keep close watch over it until the fourteenth day of this month. At twilight on that day, the whole assembled Israelite community should slaughter their lambs.
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and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.
7 They should take some of the blood and smear it on the two doorposts and on the beam over the door of the houses in which they are eating.
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“Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
8 That same night they should eat the meat roasted over the fire. They should eat it along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
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They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.
9 Don't eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted over fire with its head, legs, and internal organs.
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Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts.
10 Don't let any of it remain until morning, and burn any of it left over in the morning.
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And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn.
11 This is how you should eat it. You should be dressed, with your sandals on your feet and your walking stick in your hand. You should eat the meal in a hurry. It is the Passover of the LORD.
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In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover.
12 I'll pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I'll strike down every oldest child in the land of Egypt, both humans and animals. I'll impose judgments on all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.
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For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord.
13 The blood will be your sign on the houses where you live. Whenever I see the blood, I'll pass over you. No plague will destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
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The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
14 "This day will be a day of remembering for you. You will observe it as a festival to the LORD. You will observe it in every generation as a regulation for all time.
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“This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast.
15 You will eat unleavened bread for seven days. On the first day you must remove yeast from your houses because anyone who eats leavened bread anytime during those seven days will be cut off from Israel.
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Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
16 The first day and the seventh day will be a holy occasion for you. No work at all should be done on those days, except for preparing the food that everyone is going to eat. That is the only work you may do.
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On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you.
17 You should observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because on this precise day I brought you out of the land of Egypt in military formation. You should observe this day in every generation as a regulation for all time.
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And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever.
18 In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day, you should eat unleavened bread.
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In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.
19 For seven days no yeast should be found in your houses because whoever eats leavened bread will be cut off from the Israelite community, whether the person is an immigrant or a native of the land.
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For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land.
20 You should not eat anything made with yeast in all your settlements. You should eat only unleavened bread."
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You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread. ”
21 Then Moses called together all of Israel's elders and said to them, "Go pick out one of the flock for your families, and slaughter the Passover lamb.
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Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb.
22 Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood that is in the bowl, and touch the beam above the door and the two doorposts with the blood in the bowl. None of you should go out the door of your house until morning.
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Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
23 When the LORD comes by to strike down the Egyptians and sees the blood on the beam above the door and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over that door. He won't let the destroyer enter your houses to strike you down.
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For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.
24 You should observe this ritual as a regulation for all time for you and your children.
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You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever.
25 When you enter the land that the LORD has promised to give you, be sure that you observe this ritual.
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And when you come to the land that the Lord will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service.
26 And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ritual mean to you?'
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And when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service? ’
27 you will say, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, for the LORD passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt. When he struck down the Egyptians, he spared our houses.'" The people then bowed down and worshipped.
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you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses. ’” And the people bowed their heads and worshiped.
28 The Israelites went and did exactly what the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron to do.
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Then the people of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
29 At midnight the LORD struck down all the first offspring in the land of Egypt, from the oldest child of Pharaoh sitting on his throne to the oldest child of the prisoner in jail, and all the first offspring of the animals.
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At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock.
30 When Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the Egyptians got up that night, a terrible cry of agony rang out across Egypt because every house had someone in it who had died.
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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 someone was not dead.
31 Then Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron that night and said, "Get up! Get away from my people, both you and the Israelites! Go! Worship the LORD, as you said!
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Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Up, go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as you have said.
32 You can even take your flocks and herds, as you asked. Just go! And bring a blessing on me as well!"
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Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also! ”
33 The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the land because they thought, We'll all be dead.
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The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste. For they said, “We shall all be dead. ”
34 So the people picked up their bread dough before the yeast made it rise, with their bread pans wrapped in their robes on their shoulders.
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So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders.
35 The Israelites did as Moses had told them and asked the Egyptians for their silver and gold jewelry as well as their clothing.
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The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing.
36 The LORD made sure that the Egyptians were kind to the people so that they let them have whatever they asked for. And so they robbed the Egyptians.
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And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.
37 The Israelites traveled from Rameses to Succoth. They numbered about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children.
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And the people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.
38 A diverse crowd also went up with them along with a huge number of livestock, both flocks and herds.
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A mixed multitude also went up with them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds.
39 They baked unleavened cakes from the dough they had brought out of Egypt. The dough didn't rise because they were driven out of Egypt and they couldn't wait. In fact, they didn't have time to prepare any food for themselves.
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And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves.
40 The length of time that the Israelites had lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.
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The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years.
41 At the end of four hundred thirty years, on that precise day, all the LORD's people in military formation left the land of Egypt.
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At the end of years, on that very day, all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.
42 For the LORD, that was a night of intent watching, to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For all Israelites in every generation, this same night is a time of intent watching to honor the LORD.
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It was a night of watching by the Lord, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a night of watching kept to the Lord by all the people of Israel throughout their generations.
43 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron: This is the regulation for the Passover. No foreigner may eat it.
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And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it,
44 However, any slave who has been bought may eat it after he's been circumcised.
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but every slave that is bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him.
45 No temporary foreign resident or day laborer may eat it.
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No foreigner or hired worker may eat of it.
46 It should be eaten in one house. You shouldn't take any of the meat outside the house, and you shouldn't break the bones.
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It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, and you shall not break any of its bones.
47 The whole Israelite community should observe it.
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All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
48 If an immigrant who lives with you wants to observe the Passover to the LORD, then he and all his males should be circumcised. Then he may join in observing it. He should be regarded as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat it.
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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 shall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
49 There will be one Instruction for the native and for the immigrant who lives with you.
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There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you. ”
50 All the Israelites did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.
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All the people of Israel did just as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.
51 On that precise day, the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt in military formation.
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And on that very day the Lord brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.
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