Exodus 12:1-17English Standard Version (ESV) The Passover
1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2 “This month
shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month
of the year for you. 3 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the
tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their
fathers' houses, a lamb for a household. 4 And if the household is too
small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take
according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you
shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without
blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the
goats, 6 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month,
when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their
lambs at twilight. 7 “Then they shall take some of the blood and put
it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat
it. 8 They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire;
with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Do not eat
any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs
and its inner parts. 10 And you shall let none of it remain until the
morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. 11 In
this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on
your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in
haste. It is the Lord's Passover. 12 For I will pass through the land
of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land
of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will
execute judgments: I am the Lord. 13 The blood shall be a sign for
you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will
pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I
strike the land of Egypt. 14 “This day shall be for you a memorial
day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your
generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a
feast. 15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day
you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is
leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall
be cut off from Israel. 16 On the first day you shall hold a holy
assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be
done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be
prepared by you. 17 And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened
Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of
Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your
generations, as a statute forever.
