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Choose either a sheep or a goat, but it must be a one-year-old male that has nothing wrong with it. And it must be large enough for everyone to have some of the meat.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v1_12_6"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.6" class="v1_12_6">6</span>Each family must take care of its animal until the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, when the animals are to be killed. </span><span class="v1_12_7"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.7" class="v1_12_7">7</span>Some of the blood must be put on the two doorposts and above the door of each house where the animals are to be eaten. </span><span class="v1_12_8"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.8" class="v1_12_8">8</span>That night the animals are to be roasted and eaten, together with bitter herbs and thin bread made without yeast. </span><span class="v1_12_9"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.9" class="v1_12_9">9</span>Don't eat the meat raw or boiled. The entire animal, including its head, legs, and insides, must be roasted. </span><span class="v1_12_10"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.10" class="v1_12_10">10</span>Eat what you want that night, and the next morning burn whatever is left. </span><span class="v1_12_11"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.11" class="v1_12_11">11</span>When you eat the meal, be dressed and ready to travel. Have your sandals on, carry your walking stick in your hand, and eat quickly. This is the Passover Festival in honor of me, your <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v1_12_12"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.12" class="v1_12_12">12</span>That same night I will pass through Egypt and kill the first-born son in every family and the first-born male of all animals. I am the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, and I will punish the gods of Egypt. </span><span class="v1_12_13"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.13" class="v1_12_13">13</span>The blood on the houses will show me where you live, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. Then you won't be bothered by the terrible disasters I will bring on Egypt.</span></p><p class="pi"><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> Remember this day and celebrate it each year as a festival in my honor. </span><span class="v1_12_15"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.15" class="v1_12_15">15</span>For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. And on the first of these seven days, you must remove all yeast from your homes. If you eat anything made with yeast during this festival, you will no longer be part of Israel. </span><span class="v1_12_16"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.16" class="v1_12_16">16</span>Meet together for worship on the first and seventh days of the festival. The only work you are allowed to do on either of these two days is that of preparing the bread.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v1_12_17"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.17" class="v1_12_17">17</span>Celebrate this Festival of Thin Bread as a way of remembering the day that I brought your families and tribes out of Egypt. And do this each year. </span><span class="v1_12_18"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.18" class="v1_12_18">18</span>Begin on the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month by eating bread made without yeast. Then continue this celebration until the evening of the twenty-first day. </span><span class="v1_12_19"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.19" class="v1_12_19">19</span>During these seven days no yeast is allowed in anyone's home, whether they are native Israelites or not. If you are caught eating anything made with yeast, you will no longer be part of Israel. </span><span class="v1_12_20"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.20" class="v1_12_20">20</span>Stay away from yeast, no matter where you live. No one is allowed to eat anything made with yeast!</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_12_21"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.21" class="v1_12_21">21</span>Moses called the leaders of Israel together and said:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v1_12_21">Each family is to pick out a sheep and kill it for Passover. </span><span class="v1_12_22"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.22" class="v1_12_22">22</span>Make a brush from a few small branches of a hyssop plant and dip the brush in the bowl that has the blood of the animal in it. Then brush some of the blood above the door and on the posts at each side of the door of your house. After this, everyone is to stay inside until morning.</span></p><p class="pi"><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> During that night the <span class="nd">Lord</span> will go through the country of Egypt and kill the first-born son in every Egyptian family. He will see where you have put the blood, and he will not come into your house. His angel that brings death will pass over and not kill your first-born sons.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v1_12_24"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.24-Exod.12.25" class="v1_12_24">24-25</span>After you have entered the country promised to you by the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, you and your children must continue to celebrate Passover each year. </span><span class="v1_12_26"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.26" class="v1_12_26">26</span>Your children will ask you, “What are we celebrating?” </span><span class="v1_12_27"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.27" class="v1_12_27">27</span>And you will answer, “The Passover animal is killed to honor the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. We do these things because on that night long ago the <span class="nd">Lord</span> passed over the homes of our people in Egypt. He killed the first-born sons of the Egyptians, but he spared our children from death.”</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_12_27">After Moses finished speaking, the people of Israel knelt down and worshiped the <span class="nd">Lord</span>. </span><span class="v1_12_28"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.28" class="v1_12_28">28</span>Then they left and did what Moses and Aaron had told them to do.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Death for the First-Born Sons</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 the first-born son of every Egyptian family, from the son of the king<a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.12.29!f.2" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> to the son of every prisoner in jail. He also killed the first-born male of every animal that belonged to the Egyptians.</span></p><p class="par"><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 everyone else in Egypt got up and started crying bitterly. In every Egyptian home, someone was dead.</span></p><h3 class="s1">The People of Israel Escape from Egypt</h3><p class="par"><span class="v1_12_31"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.31" class="v1_12_31">31</span>During the night the king<a href="#fn" id="link_Exod.12.31!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> sent for Moses and Aaron and told them, “Get your people out of my country and leave us alone! Go and worship the <span class="nd">Lord</span>, as you have 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 get out. But ask your God to be kind to 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 did everything they could to get the Israelites to leave their country as quickly as possible. They said, “Please hurry and leave. If you don't, we will all be dead.” </span><span class="v1_12_34"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.34" class="v1_12_34">34</span>So the Israelites quickly made some bread dough and put it in pans. But they did not mix any yeast in the dough to make it rise. They wrapped cloth around the pans and carried them on their shoulders.</span></p><p class="par"><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 already done what Moses had told them to do. They had gone to their Egyptian neighbors and asked for gold and silver 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> had made the Egyptians friendly toward the people of Israel, and they gave them whatever they asked for. In this way they carried away the wealth of the Egyptians when they left Egypt.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_12_37"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.37" class="v1_12_37">37</span>The Israelites walked from the city of Rameses to the city of Succoth. There were about 600,000 of them, not counting women and children. </span><span class="v1_12_38"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.38" class="v1_12_38">38</span>Many other people went with them as well, and there were also a lot of sheep, goats, and cattle. </span><span class="v1_12_39"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.39" class="v1_12_39">39</span>They left Egypt in such a hurry that they did not have time to prepare any food except the bread dough made without yeast. So they baked it and made thin bread.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_12_40"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.40-Exod.12.41" class="v1_12_40">40-41</span><a href="#Exod.12.40-Exod.12.41!x.1" id="link_Exod.12.40-Exod.12.41!x.1" class="notelink x-link"><span></span></a> The <span class="nd">Lord</span>'s people left Egypt exactly 430 years after they had arrived. </span><span class="v1_12_42"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.42" class="v1_12_42">42</span>On that night the <span class="nd">Lord</span> kept watch for them, and on this same night each year Israel will always keep watch in honor of the <span class="nd">Lord</span>.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Instructions for 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> gave Moses and Aaron the following instructions for celebrating Passover:</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v1_12_43">Only Israelites may eat the Passover meal.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v1_12_44"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.44" class="v1_12_44">44</span>Your slaves may eat the meal if they have been circumcised, </span><span class="v1_12_45"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.45" class="v1_12_45">45</span>but no foreigners who work for you are allowed to have any.</span></p><p class="pi"><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 entire meal must be eaten inside, and no one may leave the house during the celebration.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v1_12_46">No bones of the Passover lamb may be broken. </span><span class="v1_12_47"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.47" class="v1_12_47">47</span>And all Israelites must take part in the meal.</span></p><p class="pi"><span class="v1_12_48"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.48" class="v1_12_48">48</span>If anyone who isn't an Israelite wants to celebrate Passover with you, every man and boy in that family must first be circumcised. Then they may join in the meal, just like native Israelites. No uncircumcised man or boy may eat the Passover meal! </span><span class="v1_12_49"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.49" class="v1_12_49">49</span>This law applies both to native Israelites and to those foreigners who live among you.</span></p><p class="par"><span class="v1_12_50"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.50" class="v1_12_50">50</span>The Israelites obeyed everything the <span class="nd">Lord</span> had commanded Moses and Aaron to tell them. </span><span class="v1_12_51"><span class="reftext" id="Exod.12.51" class="v1_12_51">51</span>And on that same day the <span class="nd">Lord</span> brought Israel's families and tribes out of Egypt.</span></p></div> </div> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">12.2 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">This month: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Abib (also called Nisan), the first month of the Hebrew calendar, from about mid-March to mid-April.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">12.29 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the king: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 1.11.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">12.31 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">the king: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">See the note at 1.11.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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