Exodus 13

¹And our Lord spake to Moyses, saying:

²Sanctify unto me every first-born that openeth the matrice in the children of Israel, as well of men as of beasts; for they are all mine.

³And Moyses said to the people: Remember this day in the which you went forth out of Ægypt, & out of the house of servitude, because with a strong hand hath our Lord brought you forth out of this place; that you eat not leavened bread.

⁴This day you go forth in the month of new corn.

⁵And when our Lord shall have brought thee into the Land of Chananeite and Hetheite & Amorrheite & Heveite & Jebuseite, which he sware to thy fathers that he would give thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey, thou shalt celebrate this manner of sacred rites in this month.

⁶Seven days shalt thou eat azymes: and in the seventh day shall be the solemnity of our Lord.

⁷Azymes shall you eat seven days: there shall not be seen any leavened thing with thee, nor in all thy coasts.

⁸And thou shalt tell thy son in that day, saying: This is that which our Lord did to me when I came forth out of Ægypt.

⁹And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as a monument before thine eyes: and that the law of our Lord be always in the mouth, for in a strong hand our Lord hath brought thee out of Ægypt.

¹⁰Thou shalt keep this observation at the set time from days to days.

¹¹And when our Lord shall have brought thee into the Land of the Chananeite, as he sware to thee and thy fathers, and shall give it thee,

¹²thou shalt separate all that openeth the matrice unto our Lord, and all that is brought forth in thy cattle: whatsoever thou shalt have of male sex thou shalt consecrate to our Lord.

¹³The first-born of an ass thou shall change for a sheep: and if thou do not redeem it, thou shalt kill it. And every first-born of men among thy children, thou shalt redeem with a price.

¹⁴And when thy son shall ask thee tomorrow saying: What is this? Thou shalt answer him: With a strong hand did our Lord bring us forth out of the land of Ægypt, out of the house of servitude.

¹⁵For when Pharao's heart was indurate, and would not dismiss us, our Lord slew every first-born in the Land of Ægypt, from the first-born of man to the first-born of beasts: therefore I sacrifice to our Lord all that openeth the matrice of the male sex, and all the first-born of my sons I do redeem.

¹⁶It shall be therefore as a sign in thy hand, and as a thing hanged before thine eyes, for a remembrance: because our Lord by a strong hand hath brought us forth out of Ægypt.

¹⁷Therefore when Pharao had sent forth the people, our Lord led them not by the way of the Philisthiims' country which is near: thinking lest perhaps it would repent them, if they should see wars arise against them, and would return into Ægypt.

¹⁸But he led them about by the way of the desert, which is besides the Red sea: and the children of Israel went up out of the Land of Ægypt armed.

¹⁹Moyses also took Joseph's bones with him: because he had adjured the children of Israel, saying: God shall visit you, carry out my bones from hence with you.

²⁰And marching from Socoth they camped in Etham in the utmost coasts of the wilderness.

²¹And our Lord went before them to shew the way by day in a pillar of a cloud, and by night in a pillar of fire: that he might be the guide of their journey both times.

²²There never failed the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, before the people.