1And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2“This month is to be the beginning of months for you: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3Say to all the community of Israel, ‘On the tenth day of this month, each man shall take to him a lamb for his family - a lamb for each house. 4And if the household is too little for the lamb, let him and his next-door neighbor take and share it based upon the number of the souls, each family according to its eating shall make your count for the lamb. 5Your lamb must be without blemish, a male of the first year: you shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: 6And you shall take special care of it up until the fourteenth day of that month; when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight. 7And they shall take its blood, and strike (brush) it on the two side posts and on the top door posts of the houses, in which they shall eat it. 8And they shall eat the meat, roasted with fire, with unleavened bread, and bitter herbs. 9Do not eat it raw, nor boiled in water, but roasted; with his head, legs, and internal organs. 10And you shall let none of it remain until the morning: whatever is uneaten of it you shall burn with fire. 11And this is how you shall eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD's Passover. 12For I will pass through the land of Egypt this same night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt - both man and beast; and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD. 13And the blood on your doorposts shall serve as a sign, marking the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not touch you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

14‘And this day shall be a memorial to you; and you shall mark it with a feast to the LORD throughout all your generations, as a lasting ordinance. 15For seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove all leaven (yeast) from your houses; for whoever eats leavened bread from the first until the seventh day shall be cut off from Israel. 16And on the first day there shall be a holy convocation (sacred assembly), and yet another on the seventh day. No work of any kind shall be done in them, except for preparation of food that everyone must eat; that is the only work you may do in those days. 17And you shall observe (celebrate) the feast of unleavened bread; for it was on this very day that I have brought your divisions out of Egypt. Therefore, you shall observe this day throughout your generations forever. 18In the first month, beginning in the evening of the fourteenth day of that month, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the evening of twenty-first day of that month. 19For those seven days, there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner (visitor), or born in the land. 20You shall eat no leavened bread (made with yeast) in any of your homes.’”

21Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Go and select lambs, according to your families, and kill it as the Passover lamb. 22And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in its blood in a basin, and strike (brush) the lintel and the two side posts (door frame) with the blood from the basin; and none of you shall go out the door of your house until morning. 23For the LORD will pass through the land to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood on the door frame, the LORD will pass over that door, and will not permit the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you down. 24And you shall observe these instructions as a lasting ordinance, to you and to your sons, forever. 25And when you enter the land which the LORD will give you, as He has promised, you shall observe this ordinance. 26And when your children ask you, ‘What is meant by this service?’ 27You shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Passover of the LORD, Who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when He struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’” And the people bowed their heads and worshipped. 28And the Israelites did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.

29And at midnight, the LORD struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh on his throne to the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. 30And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, all his officials, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead. 31And Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Get up and get out from among my people, both you and the Israelite people! Go, serve the LORD, as you have said. 32And take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also.” 33And the Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the land; for they said, “We will all die!” 34And so the people took their dough before the yeast was added to it, because their kneading troughs were bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders. 35And the Israelites did as Moses had instructed: and asked the Egyptians for jewels of silver and gold, and clothing: 36And the LORD gave them favor with the Egyptians, so that they gave to them whatever things they asked. And they essentially plundered the Egyptians.

37And the Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. 38And many non-Israelite people went with them; plus flocks and herds - very much livestock. 39The bread they baked into flat, unleavened cakes (without yeast) because they were driven out of Egypt with such haste that they had no time to prepare food supplies for their journey. 40Now the time of the sojourning (stay) of the Israelites in Egypt, was four hundred thirty years. 41And at the end of those four hundred thirty years, on the very same day, all the divisions of the LORD left Egypt. 42Because it was a night that the LORD kept His promise to bring them out of the land of Egypt; it is the night to be observed and commemorated by all the descendants of Israel throughout all their generations.

43And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover meal: No stranger (outsider) may eat it. 44But any slave that an Israelite has, after he has been circumcised, may eat it. 45But no foreigner or hired servant shall eat it. 46It must be eaten inside the house; you shall not carry any of the meat outside; and do not break any bone of the Passover lamb. 47The entire congregation of Israel must observe and keep the Passover. 48And if a stranger residing with you wants to keep the Passover to the LORD, all the males of his family must be circumcised, and then let him come near and take part; and then he shall be as one that is born in the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat it. 49The same law shall apply to the native-born and the stranger that sojourns (lives) among you.”

50All the Israelites did just as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron. 51And on that same day, the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt like an army.