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It is the passover of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both human beings and animals; on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you live: when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>This day shall be a day of remembrance for you. You shall celebrate it as a festival to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a perpetual ordinance. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day shall be cut off from Israel. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>On the first day you shall hold a solemn assembly, and on the seventh day a solemn assembly; no work shall be done on those days; only what everyone must eat, that alone may be prepared by you. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>You shall observe the festival of unleavened bread, for on this very day I brought your companies out of the land of Egypt: you shall observe this day throughout your generations as a perpetual ordinance. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day, you shall eat unleavened bread. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether an alien or a native of the land. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your settlements you shall eat unleavened bread.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go, select lambs for your families, and slaughter the passover lamb. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood in the basin. None of you shall go outside the door of your house until morning. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>For the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> will pass through to strike down the Egyptians; when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> will pass over that door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you down. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>You shall observe this rite as a perpetual ordinance for you and your children. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>When you come to the land that the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this observance. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>And when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this observance?’ </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>you shall say, ‘It is the passover sacrifice to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, for he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he struck down the Egyptians but spared our houses.’” And the people bowed down and worshiped.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>The Israelites went and did just as the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> had commanded Moses and Aaron.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>At midnight the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his officials and all the Egyptians; and there was a loud cry in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>Then he summoned Moses and Aaron in the night, and said, “Rise up, go away from my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, worship the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, as you said. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>Take your flocks and your herds, as you said, and be gone. And bring a blessing on me too!”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Exodus: From Rameses to Succoth</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>The Egyptians urged the people to hasten their departure from the land, for they said, “We shall all be dead.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls wrapped up in their cloaks on their shoulders. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>The Israelites had done as Moses told them; they had asked the Egyptians for jewelry of silver and gold, and for clothing, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">36</span>and the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. And so they plundered the Egyptians.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">37</span>The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">38</span>A mixed crowd also went up with them, and livestock in great numbers, both flocks and herds. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">39</span>They baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they had brought out of Egypt; it was not leavened, because they were driven out of Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">40</span>The time that the Israelites had lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">41</span>At the end of four hundred thirty years, on that very day, all the companies of the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> went out from the land of Egypt. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">42</span>That was for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> a night of vigil, to bring them out of the land of Egypt. That same night is a vigil to be kept for the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> by all the Israelites throughout their generations.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Directions for the Passover</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">43</span>The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> said to Moses and Aaron: This is the ordinance for the passover: no foreigner shall eat of it, </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">44</span>but any slave who has been purchased may eat of it after he has been circumcised; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">45</span>no bound or hired servant may eat of it. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">46</span>It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the animal outside the house, and you shall not break any of its bones. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">47</span>The whole congregation of Israel shall celebrate it. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">48</span>If an alien who resides with you wants to celebrate the passover to the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span>, all his males shall be circumcised; then he may draw near to celebrate it; he shall be regarded as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">49</span>there shall be one law for the native and for the alien who resides among you.</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">50</span>All the Israelites did just as the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> had commanded Moses and Aaron. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">51</span>That very day the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps">Lord</span> brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt, company by company.</span></p> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. 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