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You may take it from either the sheep or the goats. <span id="v02012006" class="ver">6</span>You will keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then, with the whole community of Israel assembled, it will be slaughtered during the evening twilight. <span id="v02012007" class="ver">7</span>They will take some of its blood and apply it to the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. <span id="v02012008" class="ver">8</span>They will consume its meat that same night, eating it roasted with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. <span id="v02012009" class="ver">9</span>Do not eat any of it raw or even boiled in water, but roasted, with its head and shanks and inner organs. <span id="v02012010" class="ver">10</span>You must not keep any of it beyond the morning; whatever is left over in the morning must be burned up.</p> <p><span id="v02012011" class="ver">11</span>This is how you are to eat it: with your loins girt, sandals on your feet and your staff in hand, you will eat it in a hurry. It is the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>’s Passover. <span id="v02012012" class="ver">12</span>For on this same night I will go through Egypt, striking down every firstborn in the land, human being and beast alike, and executing judgment on all the gods of Egypt—I, the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>!<a id="ren02012012-b" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02012012-b">b</a> <span id="v02012013" class="ver">13</span>But for you the blood will mark the houses where you are. Seeing the blood, I will pass over you; thereby, when I strike the land of Egypt, no destructive blow will come upon you.<a id="ren02012013-c" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02012013-c">c</a></p> <p><span id="v02012014" class="ver">14</span>This day will be a day of remembrance for you, which your future generations will celebrate with pilgrimage to the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>; you will celebrate it as a statute forever. <span id="v02012015" class="ver">15</span>For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. From the very first day you will have your houses clear of all leaven. For whoever eats leavened bread from the first day to the seventh will be cut off<a id="rfn02012015-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn02012015-1">*</a> from Israel. <span id="v02012016" class="ver">16</span>On the first day you will hold a sacred assembly, and likewise on the seventh. On these days no sort of work shall be done, except to prepare the food that everyone needs. <span id="v02012017" class="ver">17</span>Keep, then, the custom of the unleavened bread,<a id="ren02012017-d" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02012017-d">d</a> since it was on this very day that I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. You must observe this day throughout your generations as a statute forever. <span id="v02012018" class="ver">18</span>From the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month until the evening of the twenty-first day of this month you will eat unleavened bread. <span id="v02012019" class="ver">19</span>For seven days no leaven may be found in your houses; for anyone, a resident alien or a native, who eats leavened food will be cut off from the community of Israel. <span id="v02012020" class="ver">20</span>You shall eat nothing leavened; wherever you dwell you may eat only unleavened bread.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Promulgation of the Passover.</span> <span id="v02012021" class="ver">21</span>Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and procure lambs for your families, and slaughter the Passover victims. <span id="v02012022" class="ver">22</span><a id="ren02012022-e" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02012022-e">e</a> Then take a bunch of hyssop,<a id="rfn02012022-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn02012022-1">*</a> and dipping it in the blood that is in the basin, apply some of this blood to the lintel and the two doorposts. And none of you shall go outdoors until morning. <span id="v02012023" class="ver">23</span>For when the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> goes by to strike down the Egyptians, seeing the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts, the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> will pass over that door and not let the destroyer come into your houses to strike you down.</p> <p><span id="v02012024" class="ver">24</span>“You will keep this practice forever as a statute for yourselves and your descendants. <span id="v02012025" class="ver">25</span>Thus, when you have entered the land which the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> will give you as he promised, you must observe this rite. <span id="v02012026" class="ver">26</span><a id="ren02012026-f" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02012026-f">f</a> When your children ask you, ‘What does this rite of yours mean?’ <span id="v02012027" class="ver">27</span>you will reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice for the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt; when he struck down the Egyptians, he delivered our houses.’ ”</p> <p>Then the people knelt and bowed down, <span id="v02012028" class="ver">28</span>and the Israelites went and did exactly as the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> had commanded Moses and Aaron.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Death of the Firstborn.</span> <span id="v02012029" class="ver">29</span><a id="ren02012029-g" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02012029-g">g</a> And so at midnight the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh sitting on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn of the animals. <span id="v02012030" class="ver">30</span>Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was loud wailing throughout Egypt, for there was not a house without its dead.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Permission to Depart.</span> <span id="v02012031" class="ver">31</span>During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Leave my people at once, you and the Israelites! Go and serve the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> as you said. <span id="v02012032" class="ver">32</span>Take your flocks, too, and your herds, as you said, and go; and bless me, too!”<a id="rfn02012032-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn02012032-1">*</a></p> <p><span id="v02012033" class="ver">33</span>The Egyptians, in a hurry to send them away from the land, urged the people on, for they said, “All of us will die!” <span id="v02012034" class="ver">34</span>The people, therefore, took their dough before it was leavened, in their kneading bowls wrapped in their cloaks on their shoulders. <span id="v02012035" class="ver">35</span><a id="ren02012035-h" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02012035-h">h</a> And the Israelites did as Moses had commanded: they asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing. <span id="v02012036" class="ver">36</span>Indeed the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> had made the Egyptians so well-disposed toward the people that they let them have whatever they asked for. And so they despoiled the Egyptians.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Departure from Egypt.</span> <span id="v02012037" class="ver">37</span>The Israelites set out from Rameses<a id="ren02012037-i" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02012037-i">i</a> for Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, not counting the children. <span id="v02012038" class="ver">38</span>A crowd of mixed ancestry<a id="rfn02012038-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn02012038-1">*</a> also went up with them, with livestock in great abundance, both flocks and herds. <span id="v02012039" class="ver">39</span>The dough they had brought out of Egypt they baked into unleavened loaves. It was not leavened, because they had been driven out of Egypt and could not wait. They did not even prepare food for the journey.</p> <p><span id="v02012040" class="ver">40</span>The time the Israelites had stayed in Egypt<a id="rfn02012040-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn02012040-1">*</a> was four hundred and thirty years.<a id="ren02012040-j" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02012040-j">j</a> <span id="v02012041" class="ver">41</span>At the end of four hundred and thirty years, on this very date, all the armies of the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> left the land of Egypt. <span id="v02012042" class="ver">42</span>This was a night of vigil for the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt; so on this night all Israelites must keep a vigil for the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> throughout their generations.</p> <p class="psec"><span class="hemb">Law of the Passover.</span> <span id="v02012043" class="ver">43</span>The <span class="tetr">Lord</span> said to Moses and Aaron: This is the Passover statute. No foreigner may eat of it. <span id="v02012044" class="ver">44</span>However, every slave bought for money you will circumcise; then he may eat of it. <span id="v02012045" class="ver">45</span>But no tenant or hired worker may eat of it. <span id="v02012046" class="ver">46</span>It must be eaten in one house; you may not take any of its meat outside the house.<a id="ren02012046-k" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02012046-k">k</a> You shall not break any of its bones.<a id="rfn02012046-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn02012046-1">*</a> <span id="v02012047" class="ver">47</span>The whole community of Israel must celebrate this feast. <span id="v02012048" class="ver">48</span>If any alien<a id="ren02012048-l" class="enref" href="footnotes.htm#en02012048-l">l</a> residing among you would celebrate the Passover for the <span class="tetr">Lord</span>, all his males must be circumcised, and then he may join in its celebration just like the natives. But no one who is uncircumcised may eat of it. <span id="v02012049" class="ver">49</span>There will be one law<a id="rfn02012049-1" class="fnref" href="footnotes.htm#fn02012049-1">*</a> for the native and for the alien residing among you.</p> <p><span id="v02012050" class="ver">50</span>All the Israelites did exactly as the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> had commanded Moses and Aaron. <span id="v02012051" class="ver">51</span>On that same day the <span class="tetr">Lord</span> brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt company by company.</p> </section> <br /><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="intro.htm"><span class="ac">Book Introduction</span></a></h1><h1 class="cn"><a class="xref" href="footnotes.htm"><span class="ac">Footnotes</span></a></h1></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture texts, prefaces, introductions, footnotes and cross references used in this work are taken from the <i>New American Bible, revised edition</i> © 2010, 1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Inc., Washington, DC All Rights Reserved. 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