Exodus 12

¹And our Lord said to Moyses and Aaron in the Land of Ægypt:

²This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it shall be the first in the months of the year.

³Speak ye to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and say to them: The tenth day of this month let every man take a lamb by their families and houses.

⁴But if the number be less than may suffice to eat the lamb, he shall take unto him his neighbour that joineth to his house, according to the number of souls which may suffice to the eating of the lamb.

⁵And it shall be a lamb without spot, a male, of a year old: according also to which rite you shall take a kid.

⁶And you shall keep him until the fourteenth day of this month: and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice him at even.

⁷And they shall take of the blood thereof, and put upon both the posts, and on the upper door-posts of the houses, wherein they shall eat him.

⁸And they shall eat the flesh that night roasted at the fire, and unleavened bread with wild lettuce.

⁹You shall not eat thereof any thing raw, nor boiled in water, but only roasted at the fire: the head with the feet and entrails thereof you shall devour.

¹⁰Neither shall there remain any thing of him until morning. If there be any thing left, you shall burn it with fire.

¹¹And thus you shall eat him: You shall gird your reins, and you shall have shoes on your feet, holding staves in your hands, and you shall eat speedily: for it is the Phase (that is the Passage) of the Lord.

¹²And I will pass through the Land of Ægypt that night, and will strike every first-begotten in the Land of Ægypt from man even unto beast: & in all the gods of Ægypt I will do judgments, I the Lord.

¹³And the blood shall be unto you for a sign in the houses where you shall be: & I shall see the blood, & shall pass over you: neither shall there be among you a destroying plague when I shall strike the Land of Ægypt.

¹⁴And you shall have this day for a monument: & you shall celebrate it solemn to the Lord in your generations with an everlasting observation.

¹⁵Seven days shall you eat azymes: in the first day there shall be no leaven in your houses: whosoever shall eat leaven, that soul shall perish out of Israel, from the first day until the seventh day.

¹⁶The first day shall be holy and solemn, and the seventh day with the like festivity shall be venerable: no work shall you do in them, except those things that pertain to eating.

¹⁷And you shall observe the azymes: for in the self-same day I will bring forth your army out of the Land of Ægypt, and you shall keep this day unto your generations with a perpetual rite.

¹⁸The first month, the fourteenth day of the month at even you shall eat azymes until the one and twentieth day of the same month at even.

¹⁹Seven days there shall not be found leavened in your houses: he that shall eat leavened, his soul shall perish out of the assembly of Israel, as well of strangers as of them that are born in the land.

²⁰Nothing leavened shall you eat: in all your habitations you shall eat azymes.

²¹And Moyses called all the Ancients of the children of Israel and said to them: Go take a lamb by your families, and sacrifice the Phase.

²²And dip a bunch of hyssop in the blood that is at the door, and sprinkle the upper transom of the door therewith, and both the door cheeks: let none of you go out of the door of his house till morning.

²³For our Lord will pass striking the Ægyptians: and when he shall see the blood on the upper sill, and on both the posts, he will pass over the door of the house, & not suffer the striker to enter your houses and to hurt.

²⁴Keep this thing as a law to thee and thy children for ever.

²⁵And When you are entered into the Land which our Lord will give you as he hath promised, you shall observe these ceremonies.

²⁶And when your children shall say to you: What is this religion?

²⁷You shall say to them: It is the victim of our Lord's passage, when he passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Ægypt striking the Ægyptians, and delivering our houses. And the people bowing themselves adored.

²⁸And the children of Israel going forth did as our Lord had commanded Moyses & Aaron.

²⁹And it came to pass at midnight, our Lord struck every first-begotten in the Land of Ægypt, from the first-begotten of Pharao, who sat in his throne, unto the first-begotten of the captive woman that was in the prison, and every first-begotten of beasts.

³⁰And Pharao arose in the night, & all his servants, & all Ægypt: & there arose a great cry in Ægypt: for neither was there a house wherein there lay not a dead one.

³¹And Pharao calling Moyses & Aaron in the night, said: Arise & go forth from my people, you and the children of Israel: go, sacrifice to the Lord as you say.

³²Your sheep & herds take you as you demanded, and departing bless me.

³³And the Ægyptians urged the people to go forth out of the land quickly, saying: We shall all die.

³⁴The people therefore took dough before it was leavened: and tying it in their cloaks, put it upon their shoulders.

³⁵And the children of Israel did as Moyses had commanded: & they asked of the Ægyptians vessels of silver and gold, and very much raiment.

³⁶And our Lord gave grace to the people before the Ægyptians that they did lend them: & they spoiled the Ægyptians.

³⁷And the children of Israel set forward from Ramesse into Socoth, almost six hundred thousand of foot men, beside little ones.

³⁸But also the common people of all sorts innumerable went up with them, sheep and herds and beasts of diverse kinds exceeding many.

³⁹And they baked the meal, which a little before they had taken out of Ægypt tempered: and made hearth cakes unleavened: for it could not be leavened, the Ægyptians urging them to depart, & not suffering them to make any tarriance: neither did they think upon preparing any meat.

⁴⁰And the dwelling of the children of Israel that they abode in Ægypt, was four hundred thirty years.

⁴¹The which being expired, the same day all the army of our Lord went forth out of the Land of Ægypt.

⁴²This is the observable night of our Lord, when he brought them forth out of the Land of Ægypt: this night all the children of Israel must observe in their generations.

⁴³And our Lord said to Moyses and Aaron: This is the religion of the Phase: No alien shall eat of it.

⁴⁴And every bought servant shall be circumcised, and so shall eat.

⁴⁵The stranger and the hireling shall not eat thereof.

⁴⁶In one house shall it be eaten, neither shall you carry forth of the flesh thereof out of the house, neither shall you break a bone thereof.

⁴⁷All the assembly of the children of Israel shall make it.

⁴⁸And if any of the sojourners be willing to dwell among you, and make the Phase of the Lord, first all the male that he hath shall be circumcised, and then shall he celebrate it according to the rite: & he shall be as he that is born in the land: but if there be any man uncircumcised, he shall not eat thereof.

⁴⁹All one law shall be to him that is born in the land and to the Proselyte that sojourneth with you.

⁵⁰And all the children of Israel did as our Lord had commanded Moyses and Aaron.

⁵¹And the same day our Lord brought forth the children of Israel out of the Land of Ægypt by their troops.