1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt,2 "This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb "for his family, one for each household.4 If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat.5 The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats.6 Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.7 Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.8 That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast.9 Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire —with the head, legs and internal organs.10 Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it.11 This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the LORD's Passover.12 "On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring 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, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.14 "This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the LORD —a lasting ordinance.15 For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.16 On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.17 "Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.18 In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.19 For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel.20 Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread."21 Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.22 Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning.23 When the LORD goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.24 "Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants.25 When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony.26 And when your children ask you, 'What does this ceremony mean to you?'27 then tell them, 'It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.'" Then the people bowed down and worshiped.28 The Israelites did just what the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron.29 At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well.30 Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.31 During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested.32 Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me."33 The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country. "For otherwise," they said, "we will all die!"34 So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing.35 The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing.36 The LORD had made the Egyptians favorably disposed toward the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children.38 Many other people went up with them, and also large droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.39 With the dough the Israelites had brought from Egypt, they baked loaves of unleavened bread. The dough was without yeast because they had been driven out of Egypt and did not have time to prepare food for themselves.40 Now the length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt "was 430 years.41 At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD's divisions left Egypt.42 Because the LORD kept vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the LORD for the generations to come.43 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "These are the regulations for the Passover meal: "No foreigner may eat it.44 Any slave you have bought may eat it after you have circumcised him,45 but a temporary resident or a hired worker may not eat it.46 "It must be eaten inside the house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones.47 The whole community of Israel must celebrate it.48 "A foreigner residing among you who wants to celebrate the LORD's Passover must have all the males in his household circumcised; then he may take part like one born in the land. No uncircumcised male may eat it.49 The same law applies both to the native-born and to the foreigner residing among you."50 All the Israelites did just what the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.51 And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions.

1 Dixit quoque Dominus ad Moysen et Aaron in terra gypti : 2 Mensis iste, vobis principium mensium : primus erit in mensibus anni. 3 Loquimini ad universum ctum filiorum Isral, et dicite eis : Decima die mensis hujus tollat unusquisque agnum per familias et domos suas. 4 Sin autem minor est numerus ut sufficere possit ad vescendum agnum, assumet vicinum suum qui junctus est domui su, juxta numerum animarum qu sufficere possunt ad esum agni. 5 Erit autem agnus absque macula, masculus, anniculus : juxta quem ritum tolletis et hdum. 6 Et servabitis eum usque ad quartamdecimam diem mensis hujus : immolabitque eum universa multitudo filiorum Isral ad vesperam. 7 Et sument de sanguine ejus, ac ponent super utrumque postem, et in superliminaribus domorum, in quibus comedent illum. 8 Et edent carnes nocte illa assas igni, et azymos panes cum lactucis agrestibus. 9 Non comedetis ex eo crudum quid, nec coctum aqua, sed tantum assum igni : caput cum pedibus ejus et intestinis vorabitis. 10 Nec remanebit quidquam ex eo usque mane ; si quid residuum fuerit, igne comburetis. 11 Sic autem comedetis illum : renes vestros accingetis, et calceamenta habebitis in pedibus, tenentes baculos in manibus, et comedetis festinanter : est enim Phase (id est, transitus) Domini.12 Et transibo per terram gypti nocte illa, percutiamque omne primogenitum in terra gypti ab homine usque ad pecus : et in cunctis diis gypti faciam judicia. Ego Dominus. 13 Erit autem sanguis vobis in signum in dibus in quibus eritis : et videbo sanguinem, et transibo vos : nec erit in vobis plaga disperdens quando percussero terram gypti. 14 Habebitis autem hunc diem in monimentum : et celebrabitis eam solemnem Domino in generationibus vestris cultu sempiterno. 15 Septem diebus azyma comedetis : in die primo non erit fermentum in domibus vestris : quicumque comederit fermentatum, peribit anima illa de Isral, a primo die usque ad diem septimum. 16 Dies prima erit sancta atque solemnis, et dies septima eadem festivitate venerabilis : nihil operis facietis in eis, exceptis his, qu ad vescendum pertinent. 17 Et observabitis azyma : in eadem enim ipsa die educam exercitum vestrum de terra gypti, et custodietis diem istum in generationes vestras ritu perpetuo. 18 Primo mense, quartadecima die mensis ad vesperam, comedetis azyma usque ad diem vigesimam primam ejusdem mensis ad vesperam. 19 Septem diebus fermentum non invenietur in domibus vestris : qui comederit fermentatum, peribit anima ejus de ctu Isral, tam de advenis quam de indigenis terr. 20 Omne fermentatum non comedetis : in cunctis habitaculis vestris edetis azyma. 21 Vocavit autem Moyses omnes seniores filiorum Isral, et dixit ad eos : Ite tollentes animal per familias vestras, et immolate Phase. 22 Fasciculumque hyssopi tingite in sanguine qui est in limine, et aspergite ex eo superliminare, et utrumque postem : nullus vestrum egrediatur ostium domus su usque mane. 23 Transibit enim Dominus percutiens gyptios : cumque viderit sanguinem in superliminari, et in utroque poste, transcendet ostium domus, et non sinet percussorem ingredi domos vestras et ldere. 24 Custodi verbum istud legitimum tibi et filiis tuis usque in ternum. 25 Cumque introieritis terram, quam Dominus daturus est vobis ut pollicitus est, observabitis cremonias istas. 26 Et cum dixerint vobis filii vestri : Qu est ista religio ? 27 victima transitus Domini est, quando transivit super domos filiorum Isral in gypto, percutiens gyptios, et domos nostras liberans. Incurvatusque populus adoravit. 28 Et egressi filii Isral fecerunt sicut prceperat Dominus Moysi et Aaron.29 Factum est autem in noctis medio, percussit Dominus omne primogenitum in terra gypti, a primogenito Pharaonis, qui in solio ejus sedebat, usque ad primogenitum captiv qu erat in carcere, et omne primogenitum jumentorum. 30 Surrexitque Pharao nocte, et omnes servi ejus, cunctaque gyptus : et ortus est clamor magnus in gypto : neque enim erat domus in qua non jaceret mortuus.31 Vocatisque Pharao Moyse et Aaron nocte, ait : Surgite et egredimini a populo meo, vos et filii Isral : ite, immolate Domino sicut dicitis. 32 Oves vestras et armenta assumite ut petieratis, et abeuntes benedicite mihi. 33 Urgebantque gyptii populum de terra exire velociter, dicentes : Omnes moriemur. 34 Tulit igitur populus conspersam farinam antequam fermentaretur : et ligans in palliis, posuit super humeros suos. 35 Feceruntque filii Isral sicut prceperat Moyses : et petierunt ab gyptiis vasa argentea et aurea, vestemque plurimam. 36 Dominus autem dedit gratiam populo coram gyptiis ut commodarent eis : et spoliaverunt gyptios.37 Profectique sunt filii Isral de Ramesse in Socoth, sexcenta fere millia peditum virorum, absque parvulis. 38 Sed et vulgus promiscuum innumerabile ascendit cum eis, oves et armenta et animantia diversi generis multa nimis. 39 Coxeruntque farinam, quam dudum de gypto conspersam tulerant : et fecerunt subcinericios panes azymos : neque enim poterant fermentari, cogentibus exire gyptiis, et nullam facere sinentibus moram : nec pulmenti quidquam occurrerat prparare. 40 Habitatio autem filiorum Isral qua manserunt in gypto, fuit quadringentorum triginta annorum. 41 Quibus expletis, eadem die egressus est omnis exercitus Domini de terra gypti. 42 Nox ista est observabilis Domino, quando eduxit eos de terra gypti : hanc observare debent omnes filii Isral in generationibus suis.43 Dixitque Dominus ad Moysen et Aaron : Hc est religio Phase : omnis alienigena non comedet ex eo. 44 Omnis autem servus emptitius circumcidetur, et sic comedet. 45 Advena et mercenarius non edent ex eo. 46 In una domo comedetur, nec efferetis de carnibus ejus foras, nec os illius confringetis. 47 Omnis ctus filiorum Isral faciet illud. 48 Quod si quis peregrinorum in vestram voluerit transire coloniam, et facere Phase Domini, circumcidetur prius omne masculinum ejus, et tunc rite celebrabit : eritque sicut indigena terr : si quis auem circumcisus non fuerit, non vescetur ex eo. 49 Eadem lex erit indigen et colono qui peregrinatur apud vos. 50 Feceruntque omnes filii Isral sicut prceperat Dominus Moysi et Aaron. 51 Et eadem die eduxit Dominus filios Isral de terra gypti per turmas suas.