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          DASV: Exodus 12    

1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
2 "This month will be your beginning of months.
It shall be the first month of the year for you.
3 Tell the whole community of Israel, 'In the tenth day
of this month every man shall take a lamb according to
their father's house, a lamb for each household.
4 If the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his
next-door neighbor will take one according to the number
of the people, the lamb is to be divided according to what
each one can eat.
5 Your lamb should be a year old male without blemish.
You are to take it from the sheep or from the goats.
6 Keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, then the
whole assembled community of Israel will kill it at sundown.
7 Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the two
doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they will eat it.
8 They are to eat the meat that same night roasted with fire;
with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they must eat it.
9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roast it with
fire with its head, legs and internal organs.
10 You shall leave nothing left over until morning; but anything
that is left until the morning burn with fire.
11 This is how you are to eat it: with your clothes tucked in
for travel, your sandals on your feet and your staff in hand and
eat it quickly. It is the LORD's Passover.
12 For on that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and
will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt,
both man and animal; and I will execute judgment on all
the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.

13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are.
Then when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there
will be no plague on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
14 This day will become a day of remembrance for you, and you
will keep it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations,
keep it as a permanent ordinance.
15 For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread. On the first
day remove yeast from your houses, for whoever eats leavened
bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person
must be cut off from Israel.
16 On the first day there shall be a holy assembly and on the
seventh day another holy assembly. No type of work is to be done
on these days except that which each person eats, that alone may
you prepare.
17 You shall celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread; for on this
very day I brought your platoons out of the land of Egypt.
Therefore celebrate this day throughout your generations as a
permanent ordinance.
18 In the first month, from the evening of fourteenth day of
the month, until the evening of the twenty-first day of the month,
eat unleavened bread.
19 For seven days there must be no yeast found in your houses.
For whoever eats anything leavened, that person must be cut off
from the community of Israel, whether he is a foreigner or one
who is born in the land.
20 You must eat nothing leavened; wherever you live you are to
eat unleavened bread.'"

21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them,
"Go, and select lambs for yourselves according to your families,
and kill the Passover lamb.
22 Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin,
and brush it on the lintel and the two doorposts from the blood that
is in the basin. None of you shall go out the door of his house
until the morning.
23 For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians;
but when he sees the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts,
the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer
to come in to your houses to strike you.
24 Observe this as an ordinance for you and sons forever.
25 When you enter the land that the LORD will give you, just as
he promised, observe this ceremony.
26 When your children ask you, 'What does this ceremony mean?',
27 answer, 'It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, for he
passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he
struck the Egyptians, but spared our houses.'" And the people
bowed their heads and worshipped.

28 So the Israelites went and did just as the LORD commanded
Moses and Aaron.
29 At midnight, the LORD struck 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.
30 Then Pharaoh got up in the night, he, all his servants and all
the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not
a house in which there was not someone dead.

31 During the night he summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "Get up,
get out from among my people, both you and the Israelites and go,
worship the LORD, as you have requested.
32 Take your flocks and your herds also, just as you have demanded,
and leave. But bless me too."
33 The Egyptians urged the people, to send them out of the land quickly;
for they said, "We are all dead."

34 So the people took their dough before the yeast was added,
and wrapped their kneading-troughs in their clothes carrying them
on their shoulders.
35 The Israelites did as Moses told them and they asked the Egyptians
for items of silver, gold and clothes.
36 The LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians,
so that they let them have what they asked for. So they plundered
the Egyptians.

37 Then Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth. There were
about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.
38 A mixed multitude also went up with them along with a large number
of livestock, both flocks and herds.
39 They baked unleavened cakes from the dough that they brought out
of Egypt; for it was not leavened, because they were driven out of
Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared any provisions
for themselves.

40 Now the Israelites lived in Egypt 430 years.
41 At the end of 430 years, on that very day, all the platoons
of the LORD left the land of Egypt.
42 It is the night the LORD kept his promise bringing them out of
the land of Egypt. This is that night of the LORD. It is to be
observed by all the Israelites throughout their generations.

43 Then the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance
of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat it.
44 But every one's servant who has been bought for money,
after you have circumcised him may eat it.
45 A foreigner and a hired servant may not eat it.
46 It must be eaten in the house; do not carry out any of the
meat out of the house. Do not break any of its bones.
47 The whole community of Israel is to observe it.
48 If a foreigner lives with you and celebrates the Passover to
the LORD, all his males must be circumcised, and then he may come
near and celebrate it and he will be as one that is born in the land,
but no uncircumcised person shall eat it.
49 The same law will apply to the one who is native-born and
to the foreigner who lives among you."

50 So all the Israelites did just as the LORD commanded Moses
and Aaron.
51 On that same day, the LORD brought the Israelites out of the
land of Egypt by their platoons.

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