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And Jehovah said to Moses and to Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

This month shall be the chief of months for you. It shall be the first of the months of the year for you.

Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, On the tenth of this month, they shall each take for themselves an animal of the flock for a father's house, a flock animal for a house.

And if the house is too small for a flock animal, he and his neighbor next to his house shall take according to the number of souls, each one according to the mouth of his eating, you shall count concerning the flock animal.

A flock animal, a male without blemish, a yearling, shall be to you. You shall take from the sheep or from the goats.

And it shall be for you to keep until the fourteenth day of this month. And all the assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it between the evenings.

And they shall take from the blood, and put it on the two side doorposts and on the upper doorpost, on the houses in which they eat it.

And they shall eat the flesh in this night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Do not eat it raw, or at all boiled in water, but roasted with fire; its head with its legs and with its inward parts.

And you shall not leave any of it until morning. And you shall burn with fire that left from it until morning.

And you shall eat it this way: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Passover to Jehovah.

And I will pass through in the land of Egypt in this night. And I will strike every first-born in the land of Egypt, from man even to livestock. And I will execute judgments on all the gods of Egypt. I am Jehovah!

And the blood shall be a sign to you, on the houses where you are . And I will see the blood, and I will pass over you. And the plague shall not be on you to destroy, when I strike in the land of Egypt.

And the day shall be a memorial for you. And you shall celebrate it as a feast to Jehovah, for your generations. You shall celebrate it as a law forever.

You shall eat unleavened bread seven days. Indeed, on the first day you shall cause leaven to cease from your houses. For anyone eating any leaven, that soul shall be cut off from Israel, from the first day until the seventh day.

And on the first day shall be a holy gathering, and in the seventh day a holy gathering shall be to you. Not any work may be done on them. Only what must be eaten by your soul, that alone may be done by you.

And you shall observe the unleavened bread for on this very day I brought out your armies from the land of Egypt. And you shall observe this day for your generations, a statute forever.

In the first month , on the fourteenth day of the month, at evening you shall eat unleavened bread , until the twenty-first day of the month, at evening.

For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses. For anyone eating any leaven, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, among the aliens, and among the natives of the land.

You shall not eat leaven, none. You shall eat unleavened bread in all your dwellings.

And Moses called to all the elders of Israel and said to them, Draw out and take of the flock for you and for your families, and kill the passover.

And take a bunch of hyssop and dip in the blood in the basin. And touch some of the blood in the basin to the lintel and on the two doorposts. And you shall not go out, anyone from the door of his house until morning.

And Jehovah will pass through to strike Egypt. And He will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and Jehovah will pass over the door. And He will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to strike you.

And you shall observe this Word for an ordinance for you, and for your sons forever.

And it shall be, when you come into the land which Jehovah shall give to you, as He has spoken, you shall observe this service.

And it shall be, when your sons say to you, What is this service to you?

Then you shall say, A sacrifice of a passover of Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He struck Egypt. And He delivered our houses. And the people bowed and worshiped.

And the sons of Israel went out and did as Jehovah commanded Moses and Aaron. So they did.