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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Exodus 12 NLT</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/exodus/12.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/exodus/12-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">NLT</a> > Exodus 12</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../exodus/11.htm" title="Exodus 11">◄</a> Exodus 12 <a href="../exodus/13.htm" title="Exodus 13">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New Living Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nlt/esv/exodus/12.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="hdg">The First Passover</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>While the Israelites were still in the land of Egypt, the LORD gave the following instructions to Moses and Aaron: <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“From now on, this month will be the first month of the year for you. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Announce to the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each family must choose a lamb or a young goat for a sacrifice, one animal for each household. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>If a family is too small to eat a whole animal, let them share with another family in the neighborhood. Divide the animal according to the size of each family and how much they can eat. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>The animal you select must be a one-year-old male, either a sheep or a goat, with no defects.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“Take special care of this chosen animal until the evening of the fourteenth day of this first month. Then the whole assembly of the community of Israel must slaughter their lamb or young goat at twilight. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They are to take some of the blood and smear it on the sides and top of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the animal. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>That same night they must roast the meat over a fire and eat it along with bitter salad greens and bread made without yeast. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Do not eat any of the meat raw or boiled in water. The whole animal—including the head, legs, and internal organs—must be roasted over a fire. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Do not leave any of it until the next morning. Burn whatever is not eaten before morning.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“These are your instructions for eating this meal: Be fully dressed,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">a</span></a> wear your sandals, and carry your walking stick in your hand. Eat the meal with urgency, for this is the LORD’s Passover. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn son and firstborn male animal in the land of Egypt. I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt, for I am the LORD! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>But the blood on your doorposts will serve as a sign, marking the houses where you are staying. When I see the blood, I will pass over you. This plague of death will not touch you when I strike the land of Egypt.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“This is a day to remember. Each year, from generation to generation, you must celebrate it as a special festival to the LORD. This is a law for all time. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast. On the first day of the festival, remove every trace of yeast from your homes. Anyone who eats bread made with yeast during the seven days of the festival will be cut off from the community of Israel. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>On the first day of the festival and again on the seventh day, all the people must observe an official day for holy assembly. No work of any kind may be done on these days except in the preparation of food.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“Celebrate this Festival of Unleavened Bread, for it will remind you that I brought your forces out of the land of Egypt on this very day. This festival will be a permanent law for you; celebrate this day from generation to generation. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The bread you eat must be made without yeast from the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month until the evening of the twenty-first day of that month. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>During those seven days, there must be no trace of yeast in your homes. Anyone who eats anything made with yeast during this week will be cut off from the community of Israel. These regulations apply both to the foreigners living among you and to the native-born Israelites. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>During those days you must not eat anything made with yeast. Wherever you live, eat only bread made without yeast.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Then Moses called all the elders of Israel together and said to them, “Go, pick out a lamb or young goat for each of your families, and slaughter the Passover animal. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Drain the blood into a basin. Then take a bundle of hyssop branches and dip it into the blood. Brush the hyssop across the top and sides of the doorframes of your houses. And no one may go out through the door until morning. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For the LORD will pass through the land to strike down the Egyptians. But when he sees the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe, the LORD will pass over your home. He will not permit his death angel to enter your house and strike you down.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“Remember, these instructions are a permanent law that you and your descendants must observe forever. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>When you enter the land the LORD has promised to give you, you will continue to observe this ceremony. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Then your children will ask, ‘What does this ceremony mean?’ <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>And you will reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, for he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt. And though he struck the Egyptians, he spared our families.’” When Moses had finished speaking, all the people bowed down to the ground and worshiped.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>So the people of Israel did just as the LORD had commanded through Moses and Aaron. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>And that night at midnight, the LORD struck down all the firstborn sons in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn son of the prisoner in the dungeon. Even the firstborn of their livestock were killed. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>Pharaoh and all his officials and all the people of Egypt woke up during the night, and loud wailing was heard throughout the land of Egypt. There was not a single house where someone had not died.</p><p class="hdg">Israel’s Exodus from Egypt</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron during the night. “Get out!” he ordered. “Leave my people—and take the rest of the Israelites with you! Go and worship the LORD as you have requested. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Take your flocks and herds, as you said, and be gone. Go, but bless me as you leave.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>All the Egyptians urged the people of Israel to get out of the land as quickly as possible, for they thought, “We will all die!”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>The Israelites took their bread dough before yeast was added. They wrapped their kneading boards in their cloaks and carried them on their shoulders. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>And the people of Israel did as Moses had instructed; they asked the Egyptians for clothing and articles of silver and gold. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>The LORD caused the Egyptians to look favorably on the Israelites, and they gave the Israelites whatever they asked for. So they stripped the Egyptians of their wealth!</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>That night the people of Israel left Rameses and started for Succoth. There were about 600,000 men,<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">b</span></a> plus all the women and children. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>A rabble of non-Israelites went with them, along with great flocks and herds of livestock. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>For bread they baked flat cakes from the dough without yeast they had brought from Egypt. It was made without yeast because the people were driven out of Egypt in such a hurry that they had no time to prepare the bread or other food.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>The people of Israel had lived in Egypt<a href="#footnotes"><span class="fn">c</span></a> for 430 years. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>In fact, it was on the last day of the 430th year that all the LORD’s forces left the land. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-42.htm"><b>42</b></a></span>On this night the LORD kept his promise to bring his people out of the land of Egypt. So this night belongs to him, and it must be commemorated every year by all the Israelites, from generation to generation.</p><p class="hdg">Instructions for the Passover</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-43.htm"><b>43</b></a></span>Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “These are the instructions for the festival of Passover. No outsiders are allowed to eat the Passover meal. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-44.htm"><b>44</b></a></span>But any slave who has been purchased may eat it if he has been circumcised. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-45.htm"><b>45</b></a></span>Temporary residents and hired servants may not eat it. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-46.htm"><b>46</b></a></span>Each Passover lamb must be eaten in one house. Do not carry any of its meat outside, and do not break any of its bones. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-47.htm"><b>47</b></a></span>The whole community of Israel must celebrate this Passover festival.</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-48.htm"><b>48</b></a></span>“If there are foreigners living among you who want to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, let all their males be circumcised. Only then may they celebrate the Passover with you like any native-born Israelite. But no uncircumcised male may ever eat the Passover meal. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-49.htm"><b>49</b></a></span>This instruction applies to everyone, whether a native-born Israelite or a foreigner living among you.”</p><p class="reg"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-50.htm"><b>50</b></a></span>So all the people of Israel followed all the LORD’s commands to Moses and Aaron. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/exodus/12-51.htm"><b>51</b></a></span>On that very day the LORD brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt like an army.</p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn">a</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">12:11 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew </span><span class="it">Bind up your loins.</span><br><span class="fn">b</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">12:37 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="it">fighting men;</span><span class="ft"> Hebrew reads </span><span class="it">men on foot.</span><br><span class="fn">c</span><note caller="+" style="f"><span class="fr">12:40 </span><span class="ft">Samaritan Pentateuch reads </span><span class="it">in Canaan and Egypt;</span><span class="ft"> Greek version reads </span><span class="it">in Egypt and Canaan.</span><br></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><em>Holy Bible</em>, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. 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