Exodus 12:1-14 ▼

1 And YHWH said to Moses and to Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

2 “This month shall be for you⁺ the beginning of months; it shall be for you⁺ the first of the months of the year.

3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, on the tenth of this month, and they shall take for themselves—each man—a lamb, according to the house of the fathers, a lamb for a house.

4 And if the house is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor who is near to his house shall take it by the number of souls, each man according to the mouth of his eating, you⁺ shall count for the lamb.

5 An unblemished lamb, a male, a son of a year, shall be for you⁺. You⁺ shall take it from the sheep or from the goats.

6 And it shall be kept for you⁺ until the four and tenth day of this month. And the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall slaughter it between the evenings,

7 and they shall take from the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel on the houses in which they shall eat it.

8 And they shall eat the flesh on this night; roasted in fire and with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

9 You⁺ shall not eat from it raw or boiled boiling—in water—but only roasted in fire, its head with its legs, and with its entrails.

10 And you⁺ shall not leave from it until morning. And what remains from it until morning you⁺ shall burn with the fire.

11 And thus you⁺ shall eat it: your⁺ loins girded, your⁺ sandals on your⁺ feet, and your⁺ staff in your⁺ hand; and you⁺ shall eat it in haste. It is YHWH's Passover.

12 And I will pass through the land of Egypt on this night, and I will strike every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from man even to beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments. I am YHWH.

13 And the blood shall be a sign for you⁺ on the houses where you⁺ are, and I will see the blood, and I will pass over you⁺, and there shall not be among you⁺ a plague for destruction, in my striking in the land of Egypt.

14 And this day shall be for you⁺ a memorial, and you⁺ shall celebrate it. as a feast to YHWH throughout your⁺ generations an everlasting—statute—you⁺ shall celebrate it.