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Exodus 12 :: Legacy Standard Bible (LSB)

The Passover Lamb

Exo 12:1

Now Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron in the land of [fn]Egypt,

Exo 12:2“This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.
Exo 12:3“Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a [fn]lamb for themselves, according to their fathers’ households, a [fn]lamb for [fn]each household.
Exo 12:4‘Now if the household is too small for a [fn]lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the [fn]number of persons in them; according to [fn]what each man should eat, you are to [fn]apportion the lamb.
Exo 12:5‘Your [fn]lamb shall be a male, without blemish, a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
Exo 12:6[fn]And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall slaughter it [fn]at twilight.
Exo 12:7‘Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel [fn]of the houses in which they eat it.
Exo 12:8‘And they shall eat the flesh that night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread [fn]and bitter herbs.
Exo 12:9‘Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with its entrails.
Exo 12:10‘And you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn with fire.
Exo 12:11‘Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste—it is the Passover of Yahweh.
Exo 12:12‘And I will go through the land of Egypt on that night and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments—I am Yahweh.
Exo 12:13‘And the blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you are; and I will see the blood, and I will pass over you, and there shall be no plague among you [fn]to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

The Feast of Unleavened Bread

Exo 12:14

‘Now this day will be a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to Yahweh; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as [fn]a perpetual statute.

Exo 12:15‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall [fn]remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that [fn]person shall be cut off from Israel.
Exo 12:16‘Now on the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation for you; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten [fn]by every person, that alone may be done by you.
Exo 12:17‘You shall also keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall keep this day throughout your generations as [fn]a perpetual statute.
Exo 12:18‘In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.
Exo 12:19‘Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that [fn]person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land.
Exo 12:20‘You shall not eat anything leavened; in all your places of habitation you shall eat unleavened bread.’”
Exo 12:21

Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “[fn]Bring out and take for yourselves [fn]lambs according to your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.

Exo 12:22“And you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and [fn]touch some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts; and none of you shall go outside the doorway of his house until morning.
Exo 12:23“And Yahweh will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and He will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and Yahweh will pass over the doorway and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you.
Exo 12:24“And you shall keep this event as a statute for you and your children forever.
Exo 12:25“And it will be, when you enter the land which Yahweh will give you, as He has [fn]promised, you shall keep this new [fn]slavery.
Exo 12:26“And it will be when your children say to you, ‘[fn]What is the meaning of this new slavery to you?’
Exo 12:27that you shall say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice to Yahweh who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but delivered our homes.’” And the people bowed low and worshiped.
Exo 12:28

Then the sons of Israel went and did so; just as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

Death of the Firstborn of Egypt

Exo 12:29

Now it happened at midnight that Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the [fn]dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle.

Exo 12:30Then Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no home where there was not someone dead.
Exo 12:31Then he called for Moses and Aaron at night and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the sons of Israel; and go, [fn]serve Yahweh, as you have spoken.
Exo 12:32“Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have spoken, and go, and bless me also.”

Israel Goes Out From Egypt

Exo 12:33And the Egyptians strongly pressed the people to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We will all be dead.”
Exo 12:34So the people took up their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls bound up in the clothes on their shoulders.
Exo 12:35

Now the sons of Israel had done according to the word of Moses—they had asked from the Egyptians for articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing;

Exo 12:36and Yahweh had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.
Exo 12:37

And the sons of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, aside from the little ones.

Exo 12:38A [fn]foreign multitude also went up with them, [fn]along with flocks and herds, a very [fn]large number of livestock.
Exo 12:39And they baked the dough which they had brought out of Egypt into cakes of unleavened bread. For it had not become leavened, since they were driven out of Egypt and could not delay, nor had they [fn]prepared any provisions for themselves.
Exo 12:40

Now the time [fn]that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years.

Exo 12:41And it happened at the end of 430 years, [fn]to the very day, that all the hosts of Yahweh went out from the land of Egypt.
Exo 12:42It is a night to be kept for Yahweh for having brought them out from the land of Egypt; this night is for Yahweh, to be kept [fn]by all the sons of Israel throughout their generations.

The Statute of the Passover

Exo 12:43

And Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no [fn]foreigner shall eat of it;

Exo 12:44but every man’s slave purchased with money, after you have circumcised him, then he may eat of it.
Exo 12:45“A foreign resident or a hired person shall not eat of it.
Exo 12:46“It shall be eaten in a single house; you shall not bring forth any of the flesh outside of the house, and you shall not break any bone of it.
Exo 12:47“All the congregation of Israel shall [fn]celebrate this.
Exo 12:48“But if a sojourner sojourns with you and [fn]celebrates the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near to [fn]celebrate it; and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat of it.
Exo 12:49[fn]The same law shall [fn]apply to the native as to the sojourner who sojourns among you.”
Exo 12:50

So all the sons of Israel did; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, thus they did.

Exo 12:51And on that same day Yahweh brought the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt [fn]by their hosts.
LSB Footnotes
Lit Egypt, saying
Or kid
Or kid
Lit the
Or kid
Or amount
Lit each man’s eating
Lit compute for
Or kid
Lit It shall be to you for a guarding
Lit between the two evenings
Lit upon
Lit in addition to
Lit for destruction
Or an eternal
Lit cause to cease
Lit soul
Lit pertaining to
Or an eternal
Lit soul
Lit Draw out
Lit sheep
Lit cause to touch
Lit spoken
Or service
Lit What is this service to you?
Lit house of the pit, cf. Gen 37:20; 40:15
Or worship
Or mixed, cf. Neh 13:3; Jer 25:20; 50:37
Lit and
Or glorious, cf. 9:24; lit heavy
Lit made
Or of the sons of Israel who dwelt
Lit that it happened on this very day
Lit to the sons
Lit son of a stranger
Lit do
Lit does
Lit do
Lit One law
Lit be
Lit according to
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