Have A
Blessed Passover
Exd 12:1 And Yahweh spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
saying,
Exd 12:2 This
month [shall be] unto you the beginning of months: it [shall be] the first month
of the year to you.
Exd 12:3 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:
Exd 12:4 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.
Exd 12:5 Your lamb shall be without
blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take [it] out from the sheep, or
from the goats:
Exd 12:6 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.
Exd 12:7 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.
Exd 12:8 And they shall eat the flesh in
that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; [and] with bitter [herbs]
they shall eat it.
Exd 12:9 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.
Exd 12:10 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.
Exd 12:11 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] Yahweh'S passover.
Exd 12:12 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 "elohim" of Egypt I will execute
judgment: I [am] Yahweh.
Exd 12:13 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.
Exd 12:14 And this day shall be unto you
for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to Yahweh throughout your
generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
Exd 12:15 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.
Exd 12:16 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.
Exd 12:17 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.
Exd 12:18 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.
Exd 12:19 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.
Exd 12:20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened;
in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
Exd 12:21 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.
Exd 12:22 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.
Exd 12:23 For Yahweh will pass through to
smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two
side posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to
come in unto your houses to smite [you].
Exd 12:24 And ye shall observe this thing
for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
Exd 12:25 And it shall come to pass, when
ye be come to the land which Yahweh will give you, according as he hath
promised, that ye shall keep this service.
Exd 12:26 And it shall come to pass, when
your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
Exd 12:27 That ye shall say, It [is] the
sacrifice of Yahweh'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.
Exd 12:28 And the children of Israel went
away, and did as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
Exd 12:29 And it came to pass, that at
midnight Yahweh 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.
Exd 12:30 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.
Exd 12:31 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 Yahweh, as ye have said.
Exd 12:32 Also take your flocks and your
herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
Exd 12:33 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].
Exd 12:34 And the people took their dough
before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes
upon their shoulders.
Exd 12:35 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:
Exd 12:36 And Yahweh 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.
Exd 12:37 And the children of Israel
journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot [that
were] men, beside children.
Exd 12:38 And a mixed multitude went up
also with them; and flocks, and herds, [even] very much cattle.
Exd 12:39 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.
Exd 12:40 Now the sojourning of the
children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, [was] four hundred and thirty
years.
Exd 12:41 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 Yahweh went out from the land of Egypt.
Exd 12:42 It [is] a night to be much
observed unto Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this [is]
that night of Yahweh to be observed of all the children of Israel in their
generations.
Exd 12:43 And Yahweh said unto Moses and
Aaron, This [is] the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat
thereof:
Exd 12:44 But every man's servant that is
bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat
thereof.
Exd 12:45 A foreigner and an hired
servant shall not eat thereof.
Exd 12:46 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.
Exd 12:47 All the congregation of Israel
shall keep it.
Exd 12:48 And when a stranger shall
sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to Yahweh, 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.
Exd 12:49 One law shall be to him that is
homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
Exd 12:50 Thus did all the children of
Israel; as Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
Exd 12:51 And it came to pass the
selfsame day, [that] Yahweh did bring the children of Israel out of the land of
Egypt by their armies.