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1 The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in Egypt:
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The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2 "This month is to be the first month of the year for you.
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“This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.
3 Give these instructions to the whole community of Israel: On the tenth day of this month each man must choose either a lamb or a young goat for his household.
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Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household;
4 If his family is too small to eat a whole animal, he and his next-door neighbor may share an animal, in proportion to the number of people and the amount that each person can eat.
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and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls. You shall make your count for the lamb according to what everyone can eat.
5 You may choose either a sheep or a goat, but it must be a one-year-old male without any defects.
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Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep or from the goats.
6 Then, on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, the whole community of Israel will kill the animals.
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You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.
7 The people are to take some of the blood and put it on the doorposts and above the doors of the houses in which the animals are to be eaten.
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They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two door posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.
8 That night the meat is to be roasted, and eaten with bitter herbs and with bread made without yeast.
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They shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, with unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.
9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled, but eat it roasted whole, including the head, the legs, and the internal organs.
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Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.
10 You must not leave any of it until morning; if any is left over, it must be burned.
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You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.
11 You are to eat it quickly, for you are to be dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your walking stick in your hand. It is the Passover Festival to honor me, the Lord.
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This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, 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 "On that night I will go through the land of Egypt, killing every first-born male, both human and animal, and punishing all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord.
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For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.
13 The blood on the doorposts will be a sign to mark the houses in which you live. When I see the blood, I will pass over you and will not harm you when I punish the Egyptians.
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The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are. When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will be on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
14 You must celebrate this day as a religious festival to remind you of what I, the Lord, have done. Celebrate it for all time to come."
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This day shall be a memorial for you. You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD. You shall keep it as a feast throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.
15 The Lord said, "For seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast - eat only unleavened bread. On the first day you are to get rid of all the yeast in your houses, for if anyone during those seven days eats bread made with yeast, he shall no longer be considered one of my people.
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“‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast 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.
16 On the first day and again on the seventh day you are to meet for worship. No work is to be done on those days, but you may prepare food.
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In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, only that may be done by you.
17 Keep this festival, because it was on this day that I brought your tribes out of Egypt. For all time to come you must celebrate this day as a festival.
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You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.
18 From the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month to the evening of the twenty-first day, you must not eat any bread made with yeast.
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In the first month, on 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 must be found in your houses, for if anyone, native-born or foreign, eats bread made with yeast, he shall no longer be considered one of my people."
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There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.
21 Moses called for all the leaders of Israel and said to them, "Each of you is to choose a lamb or a young goat and kill it, so that your families can celebrate Passover.
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Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.
22 Take a sprig of hyssop, dip it in the bowl containing the animal's blood, and wipe the blood on the doorposts and the beam above the door of your house. Not one of you is to leave the house until morning.
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You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two door posts 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 goes through Egypt to kill the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the beams and the doorposts and will not let the Angel of Death enter your houses and kill you.
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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 door posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.
24 You and your children must obey these rules forever.
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You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.
25 When you enter the land that the Lord has promised to give you, you must perform this ritual.
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It shall happen when you have come to the land which the LORD will give you, as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.
26 When your children ask you, "What does this ritual mean?'
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It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’
27 you will answer, "It is the sacrifice of Passover to honor the Lord, because he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt. He killed the Egyptians, but spared us.' " The Israelites knelt down and worshiped.
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that you 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 struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’” The people bowed their heads and worshiped.
28 Then they went and did what the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.
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The children of Israel went and did so; as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
29 At midnight the Lord killed all the first-born sons in Egypt, from the king's son, who was heir to the throne, to the son of the prisoner in the dungeon; all the first-born of the animals were also killed.
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At midnight, the LORD struck 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 livestock.
30 That night, the king, his officials, and all the other Egyptians were awakened. There was loud crying throughout Egypt, because there was not one home in which there was not a dead son.
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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.
31 That same night the king sent for Moses and Aaron and said, "Get out, you and your Israelites! Leave my country; go and worship the Lord, as you asked.
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He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as you have said!
32 Take your sheep, goats, and cattle, and leave. Also pray for a blessing on me."
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Take both 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 country; they said, "We will all be dead if you don't leave."
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The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We are all dead men.”
34 So the people filled their baking pans with unleavened dough, wrapped them in clothing, and carried them on their shoulders.
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The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.
35 The Israelites had done as Moses had said, and had asked the Egyptians for gold and silver jewelry and for clothes.
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The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.
36 The Lord made the Egyptians respect the people and give them what they asked for. In this way the Israelites carried away the wealth of the Egyptians.
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The LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They plundered the Egyptians.
37 The Israelites set out on foot from Rameses for Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men, not counting women and children.
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The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, in addition to children.
38 A large number of other people and many sheep, goats, and cattle also went with them.
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A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.
39 They baked unleavened bread from the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, for they had been driven out of Egypt so suddenly that they did not have time to get their food ready or to prepare leavened dough.
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They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt; for it wasn’t leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn’t wait, and they had not prepared any food for themselves.
40 The Israelites had lived in Egypt for 430 years.
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Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.
41 On the day the 430 years ended, all the tribes of the Lord's people left Egypt.
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At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, all of the LORD’s armies went out from the land of Egypt.
42 It was a night when the Lord kept watch to bring them out of Egypt; this same night is dedicated to the Lord for all time to come as a night when the Israelites must keep watch.
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It is a night to be much observed to the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of the LORD, to be much observed by all the children of Israel throughout their generations.
43 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, "These are the Passover regulations: No foreigner shall eat the Passover meal,
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The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,
44 but any slave that you have bought may eat it if you circumcise him first.
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but every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.
45 No temporary resident or hired worker may eat it.
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A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.
46 The whole meal must be eaten in the house in which it was prepared; it must not be taken outside. And do not break any of the animal's bones.
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It must be eaten in one house. You shall not carry any of the meat outside of the house. Do not break any of its bones.
47 The whole community of Israel must celebrate this festival,
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All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
48 but no uncircumcised man may eat it. If a foreigner has settled among you and wants to celebrate Passover to honor the Lord, you must first circumcise all the males of his household. He is then to be treated like a native-born Israelite and may join in the festival.
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When a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, and would like to keep the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it. He shall be as one who is born in the land; but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.
49 The same regulations apply to native-born Israelites and to foreigners who settle among you."
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One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.”
50 All the Israelites obeyed and did what the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.
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All the children of Israel did so. As the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
51 On that day the Lord brought the Israelite tribes out of Egypt.
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That same day, the LORD brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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