Exodus 12:2–27

²This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. ³Speak unto all the assembly of Israel, saying, On the tenth of this month let them take themselves each a lamb, for a father’s house, a lamb for a house. ⁴And if the household be too small for a lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; each according to the measure of his eating shall ye count for the lamb. ⁵Your lamb shall be without blemish, a yearling male; ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats. ⁶And ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole congregation of the assembly of Israel shall kill it between the two evenings. ⁷And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two door-posts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. ⁸And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs shall they eat it. ⁹Ye shall eat none of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with its in-wards. ¹⁰And ye shall let none of it remain until the morning; and what remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. ¹¹And thus shall ye eat it: your loins shall be girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste; it is Jehovah’s passover. ¹²And I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am Jehovah. ¹³And the blood shall be for you as a sign on the houses in which ye are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be among you for destruction, when I smite the land of Egypt. ¹⁴And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall celebrate it as a feast to Jehovah; throughout your generations as an ordinance for ever shall ye celebrate it. ¹⁵Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread: on the very first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses; for whoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day—that soul shall be cut off from Israel. ¹⁶And on the first day ye shall have a holy convocation, and on the seventh day a holy convocation: no manner of work shall be done on them, save what is eaten by every person—that only shall be done by you. ¹⁷And ye shall keep the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day have I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; and ye shall keep this day in your generations as an ordinance for ever. ¹⁸In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening, ye shall eat unleavened bread until the one and twentieth day of the month in the evening. ¹⁹Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eateth what is leavened—that soul shall be cut off from the assembly of Israel, whether he be a sojourner, or born in the land. ²⁰Ye shall eat nothing leavened: in all your dwellings shall ye eat unleavened bread.

²¹And Moses called all the elders of Israel, and said to them, Seize and take yourselves lambs for your families, and kill the passover. ²²And take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and smear the lintel and the two door-posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. ²³And Jehovah will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door-posts, Jehovah will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you. ²⁴And ye shall observe this as an ordinance for thee and for thy sons for ever. ²⁵And it shall come to pass, when ye are come into the land that Jehovah will give you, as he has promised, that ye shall keep this service. ²⁶And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say to you, What mean ye by this service? ²⁷that ye shall say, It is a sacrifice of passover to Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when he smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses. And the people bowed their heads and worshipped.