Exodus 12:29–42

²⁹Now it came about at ^amidnight that ^bthe Lord struck all ^cthe 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 dungeon, and all the firstborn of ^dcattle.

³⁰Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was ^aa great cry in Egypt, for there was no home where there was not someone dead.

³¹Then ^ahe called for Moses and Aaron at night and said, “Rise up, ^bget out from among my people, both you and the sons of Israel; and go, ¹worship the Lord, as you have said.

³²“Take ^aboth your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and go, and bless me also.”

Exodus of Israel

^33aThe Egyptians urged the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We will all be dead.”

³⁴So the people took ^atheir dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls bound up in the clothes on their shoulders.

^35aNow the sons of Israel had done according to the word of Moses, for they had requested from the Egyptians articles of silver and articles of gold, and clothing;

³⁶and the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have their request. Thus they ^aplundered the Egyptians.

³⁷Now the ^asons of Israel journeyed from ^bRameses to Succoth, about ^csix hundred thousand men on foot, aside from children.

³⁸A ^amixed multitude also went up with them, ¹along with flocks and herds, a ^bvery large number of livestock.

³⁹They baked the dough which they had brought out of Egypt into cakes of unleavened bread. For it had not become leavened, since they were ^adriven out of Egypt and could not delay, nor had they ¹prepared any provisions for themselves.

⁴⁰Now the time ¹that the sons of Israel lived in Egypt was ^afour hundred and thirty years.

⁴¹And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, ¹to ^athe very day, ^ball the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt.

Ordinance of the Passover

^42aIt is a night ¹to be observed for the Lord for having brought them out from the land of Egypt; this night is for the Lord, to be observed ²by all the sons of Israel throughout their generations.