1Some time later the LORD said to Moses and Aaron:
2This month is to be the first month of the year for you.
3Tell the people of Israel that on the tenth day of this month the head of each family must choose a lamb or a young goat for his family to eat.
4-5If any family is too small to eat the whole animal, they must share it with their next door neighbours. Choose either a sheep or a goat, but it must be a one-year-old male that has nothing wrong with it. And it must be large enough for everyone to have some of the meat.
6Each family must take care of its animal until the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, when the animals are to be killed.
7Some of the blood must be put on the two doorposts and above the door of each house where the animals are to be eaten.
8That night the animals are to be roasted and eaten, together with bitter herbs and thin bread made without yeast.
9Don't eat the meat raw or boiled. The entire animal, including its head, legs, and insides, must be roasted.
10Eat what you want that night, and the next morning burn whatever is left.
11When you eat the meal, be dressed and ready to travel. Have your sandals on, carry your walking stick in your hand, and eat quickly. This is the Passover Festival in honour of me, your LORD.
12That same night I will pass through Egypt and kill the firstborn son in every family and the firstborn male of all animals. I am the LORD, and I will punish the gods of Egypt.
13The blood on the houses will show me where you live, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. Then you won't be bothered by the terrible disasters I will bring on Egypt.
14Remember this day and celebrate it each year as a festival in my honour.
24-25After you have entered the country promised to you by the LORD, you and your children must continue to celebrate Passover each year.
26Your children will ask you, “What are we celebrating?”
27And you will answer, “The Passover animal is killed to honour the LORD. We do these things because on that night long ago the LORD passed over the homes of our people in Egypt. He killed the firstborn sons of the Egyptians, but he saved our children from death.”
After Moses finished speaking, the people of Israel knelt down and worshipped the LORD.
28Then they left and did what Moses and Aaron had told them to do.
Death for the firstborn sons29At midnight the LORD killed the firstborn son of every Egyptian family, from the son of the king to the son of every prisoner in jail. He also killed the firstborn male of every animal that belonged to the Egyptians.
30That night the king, his officials, and everyone else in Egypt got up and started crying bitterly. In every Egyptian home, someone was dead.
The people of Israel escape from Egypt31During the night the king sent for Moses and Aaron and told them, “Get your people out of my country and leave us alone! Go and worship the LORD, as you have asked.
32Take your sheep, goats, and cattle, and get out. But ask your God to be kind to me.”
33The Egyptians did everything they could to get the Israelites to leave their country fast. They said, “Please hurry and leave. If you don't, we will all be dead.”
34So the Israelites quickly made some bread dough and put it in pans. But they did not mix any yeast in the dough to make it rise. They wrapped cloth around the pans and carried them on their shoulders.
35The Israelites had already done what Moses had told them to do. They had gone to their Egyptian neighbours and asked for gold and silver and for clothes.
No bones of the Passover lamb may be broken.
47And all Israelites must take part in the meal.
48If anyone who isn't an Israelite wants to celebrate Passover with you, every man and boy in that family must first be circumcised. Then they may join in the meal, just like native Israelites. No uncircumcised man or boy may eat the Passover meal!
49This law applies both to native Israelites and to those foreigners who live among you.
50The Israelites obeyed everything the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron to tell them.
51And on that same day the LORD brought Israel's families and tribes out of Egypt.
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