Exodus 12:21–51

²¹And Moses 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 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 the Lord will pass through striking the Egyptians: and when he shall see the blood on the transom, and on both the posts, he will pass over the door of the house, and not suffer the destroyer to come into your houses and to hurt you.

²⁴Thou shalt keep this thing as a law for thee and thy children for ever.

²⁵And when you have entered into the land which the Lord will give you, as he hath promised, you shall observe these ceremonies.

²⁶And when your children shall say to you: What is the meaning of this service?

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

²⁸And the children of Israel going forth, did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.

²⁹And it came to pass at midnight, the Lord slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharao, who sat on his throne, unto the firstborn of the captive woman that was in the prison, and all the firstborn of cattle.

³⁰And Pharao arose in the night, and all his servants, and all Egypt: and there arose a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house wherein there lay not one dead.

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

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

³³And the Egyptians pressed the people to go forth out of the land speedily, saying: We shall all die.

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

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

³⁶And the Lord gave favour to the people in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them: and they stripped the Egyptians.

³⁷And the children of Israel set forward from Ramesse to Socoth, being about six hundred thousand men on foot, beside children.

³⁸And a mixed multitude, without number, went up also with them, sheep and herds, and beasts of divers kinds, exceeding many.

³⁹And they baked the meal, which a little before they had brought out of Egypt in dough: and they made hearth cakes unleavened: for it could not be leavened, the Egyptians pressing them to depart, and not suffering them to make any stay; neither did they think of preparing any meat.

⁴⁰And the abode of the children of Israel that they made in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

⁴¹Which being expired, the same day all the army of the Lord went forth out of the land of Egypt.

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

⁴³And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: This is the service of the Phase; no foreigner shall eat of it.

⁴⁴But 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 keep it.

⁴⁸And if any stranger be willing to dwell among you, and to keep the Phase of the Lord, all his males shall first be circumcised, and then shall he celebrate it according to the manner: and he shall be as he that is born in the land: but if any man be uncircumcised, he shall not eat thereof.

⁴⁹The same 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 the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.

⁵¹And the same day the Lord brought forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their companies.