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It is the Passover Festival to honor me, the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_12_12"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.12" class="v1_12_12">12</span>“On that night I will go through the land of Egypt, killing every first-born male, both human and animal, and punishing all the gods of Egypt. I am the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. </span><span class="v1_12_13"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.13" class="v1_12_13">13</span>The blood on the doorposts will be a sign to mark the houses in which you live. When I see the blood, I will pass over you and will not harm you when I punish the Egyptians. </span><span class="v1_12_14"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.14" class="v1_12_14">14</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.12.14!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> You must celebrate this day as a religious festival to remind you of what I, the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, have done. Celebrate it for all time to come.”</span></p><h3 class="s">The Festival of Unleavened Bread</h3><p class="par"><span class="v1_12_15"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.15" class="v1_12_15">15</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> said, “For seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast—eat only unleavened bread. On the first day you are to get rid of all the yeast in your houses, for if anyone during those seven days eats bread made with yeast, he shall no longer be considered one of my people. </span><span class="v1_12_16"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.16" class="v1_12_16">16</span>On the first day and again on the seventh day you are to meet for worship. No work is to be done on those days, but you may prepare food. </span><span class="v1_12_17"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.17" class="v1_12_17">17</span>Keep this festival, because it was on this day that I brought your tribes out of Egypt. For all time to come you must celebrate this day as a festival. </span><span class="v1_12_18"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.18" class="v1_12_18">18</span>From the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month to the evening of the twenty-first day, you must not eat any bread made with yeast. </span><span class="v1_12_19"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.19-Exod.12.20" class="v1_12_19">19-20</span>For seven days no yeast must be found in your houses, for if anyone, native-born or foreign, eats bread made with yeast, he shall no longer be considered one of my people.”</span></p><h3 class="s">The First Passover</h3><p class="par"><span class="v1_12_21"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.21" class="v1_12_21">21</span>Moses called for all the leaders of Israel and said to them, “Each of you is to choose a lamb or a young goat and kill it, so that your families can celebrate Passover. </span><span class="v1_12_22"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.22" class="v1_12_22">22</span>Take a sprig of hyssop, dip it in the bowl containing<a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.12.22!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> the animal's blood, and wipe the blood on the doorposts and the beam above the door of your house. Not one of you is to leave the house until morning. </span><span class="v1_12_23"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.23" class="v1_12_23">23</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.12.23!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> When the <span class="nd">Lord</span> goes through Egypt to kill the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the beams and the doorposts and will not let the Angel of Death enter your houses and kill you. </span><span class="v1_12_24"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.24" class="v1_12_24">24</span>You and your children must obey these rules forever. </span><span class="v1_12_25"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.25" class="v1_12_25">25</span>When you enter the land that the <span class="nd">Lord</span> has promised to give you, you must perform this ritual. </span><span class="v1_12_26"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.26" class="v1_12_26">26</span>When your children ask you, ‘What does this ritual mean?’ </span><span class="v1_12_27"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.27" class="v1_12_27">27</span>you will answer, ‘It is the sacrifice of Passover to honor the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, because he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt. He killed the Egyptians, but spared us.’”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_12_27">The Israelites knelt down and worshiped. </span><span class="v1_12_28"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.28" class="v1_12_28">28</span>Then they went and did what the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had commanded Moses and Aaron.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Death of the First-Born</h3><p class="par"><span class="v1_12_29"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.29" class="v1_12_29">29</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.12.29!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> At midnight the <span class="nd">Lord</span> killed all the first-born sons in Egypt, from the king's son, who was heir to the throne, to the son of the prisoner in the dungeon; all the first-born of the animals were also killed. </span><span class="v1_12_30"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.30" class="v1_12_30">30</span>That night, the king, his officials, and all the other Egyptians were awakened. There was loud crying throughout Egypt, because there was not one home in which there was not a dead son. </span><span class="v1_12_31"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.31" class="v1_12_31">31</span>That same night the king sent for Moses and Aaron and said, “Get out, you and your Israelites! Leave my country; go and worship the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, as you asked. </span><span class="v1_12_32"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.32" class="v1_12_32">32</span>Take your sheep, goats, and cattle, and leave. Also pray for a blessing on me.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_12_33"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.33" class="v1_12_33">33</span>The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country; they said, “We will all be dead if you don't leave.” </span><span class="v1_12_34"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.34" class="v1_12_34">34</span>So the people filled their baking pans with unleavened dough, wrapped them in clothing, and carried them on their shoulders. </span><span class="v1_12_35"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.35" class="v1_12_35">35</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.12.35!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The Israelites had done as Moses had said, and had asked the Egyptians for gold and silver jewelry and for clothes. </span><span class="v1_12_36"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.36" class="v1_12_36">36</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> made the Egyptians respect the people and give them what they asked for. In this way the Israelites carried away the wealth of the Egyptians.</span></p><h3 class="s">The Israelites Leave Egypt</h3><p class="par"><span class="v1_12_37"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.37" class="v1_12_37">37</span>The Israelites set out on foot from Rameses for Sukkoth. There were about 600,000 men, not counting women and children. </span><span class="v1_12_38"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.38" class="v1_12_38">38</span>A large number of other people and many sheep, goats, and cattle also went with them. </span><span class="v1_12_39"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.39" class="v1_12_39">39</span>They baked unleavened bread from the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, for they had been driven out of Egypt so suddenly that they did not have time to get their food ready or to prepare leavened dough.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_12_40"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.40" class="v1_12_40">40</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.12.40!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The Israelites had lived in Egypt for 430 years. </span><span class="v1_12_41"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.41" class="v1_12_41">41</span>On the day the 430 years ended, all the tribes of the <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s people left Egypt. </span><span class="v1_12_42"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.42" class="v1_12_42">42</span>It was a night when the <span class="nd">Lord</span> kept watch to bring them out of Egypt; this same night is dedicated to the <span class="nd">Lord</span> for all time to come as a night when the Israelites must keep watch.</span></p><h3 class="s">Regulations about Passover</h3><p class="par"><span class="v1_12_43"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.43" class="v1_12_43">43</span>The <span class="nd">Lord</span> said to Moses and Aaron, “These are the Passover regulations: No foreigner shall eat the Passover meal, </span><span class="v1_12_44"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.44" class="v1_12_44">44</span>but any slave that you have bought may eat it if you circumcise him first. </span><span class="v1_12_45"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.45" class="v1_12_45">45</span>No temporary resident or hired worker may eat it. </span><span class="v1_12_46"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.46" class="v1_12_46">46</span><a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.12.46!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The whole meal must be eaten in the house in which it was prepared; it must not be taken outside. And do not break any of the animal's bones. </span><span class="v1_12_47"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.47" class="v1_12_47">47</span>The whole community of Israel must celebrate this festival, </span><span class="v1_12_48"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.48" class="v1_12_48">48</span>but no uncircumcised man may eat it. If a foreigner has settled among you and wants to celebrate Passover to honor the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, you must first circumcise all the males of his household. He is then to be treated like a native-born Israelite and may join in the festival. </span><span class="v1_12_49"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.49" class="v1_12_49">49</span>The same regulations apply to native-born Israelites and to foreigners who settle among you.” </span><span class="v1_12_50"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.50" class="v1_12_50">50</span>All the Israelites obeyed and did what the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had commanded Moses and Aaron. </span><span class="v1_12_51"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.51" class="v1_12_51">51</span>On that day the <span class="nd">Lord</span> brought the Israelite tribes out of Egypt.</span></p><a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">12.22: </char><char style="fq" closed="false">dip it in the bowl containing; </char><char style="ft" closed="false">or </char><char style="fq" closed="false">put it on the threshold covered with.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Good News Translation® (Today’s English Version, Second Edition)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 1992 American Bible Society. 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