Exodus 12:29–42

Death of Firstborn and Deliverance from Egypt

²⁹And^r in the middle of the night, Yahweh struck all of the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh sitting on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the prison house and every firstborn of an animal. ³⁰And Pharaoh got up at night, he and all his servants and all Egypt, and a great cry of distress was in Egypt because there was not a house where there was no one dead. ³¹And he called Moses and Aaron at night, and he said, “Get up, go out from the midst of my people, both you as well as the Israelites,^s and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said. ³²Take both your sheep and goats as well as your cattle, and go, and bless also me.”

³³And the Egyptians urged the people in order to hurry their release^t from the land, because they said, “All of us will die!”^{u 34}And the people lifted up their dough before it had yeast; their kneading troughs were wrapped up in their cloaks on their shoulder. ³⁵And the Israelites^v did according to the word of Moses, and they asked from the Egyptians for objects of silver and objects of gold and for clothing. ³⁶And Yahweh gave the people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians, and they granted their requests, and they plundered the Egyptians.

³⁷And the Israelites^w set out from Rameses to Succoth; the men were about six hundred thousand on foot,^x besides dependents. ³⁸And also a mixed multitude^y went up with them and sheep and goats and cattle, very numerous livestock. ³⁹And they baked the dough that they had brought out from Egypt as cakes, unleavened bread, because it had no yeast when they were driven out from Egypt, and they were not able to delay, and also they had not made provisions for themselves.

⁴⁰And the period of dwelling of the Israelites^z that they dwelled in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. ⁴¹And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, on this exact day, all of Yahweh’s divisions went out from the land of Egypt. ⁴²It is a night of vigils^a belonging to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt; it is this night belonging to Yahweh with vigils for all of the Israelites^b throughout their generations.