Jubilee Bible 2000 JUB
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18 In the first <em>month</em>, 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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In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
19 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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For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel.
20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations ye shall eat unleavened bread.
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Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread.”
21 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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Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.
22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip <em>it</em> in the blood that <em>is</em> in the basin and touch the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that <em>is</em> in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
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Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning.
23 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 <em>you</em>.
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When the LORD goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons forever.
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“Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants.
25 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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When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony.
26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What do you mean by this service?
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And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’
27 That ye shall say, It <em>is</em> 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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then tell them, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’ ” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.
28 And the sons of Israel went away, and as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
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The Israelites did just what the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron.
The Jubilee Bible (from the Scriptures of the Reformation), edited by Russell M. Stendal, Copyright © 2000, 2001, 2010
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