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And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the evening.

And 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.

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

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

You 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.

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

And 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.

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

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

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

This 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.

All the assembly of the children of Israel shall keep it.

And all the children of Israel did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.

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

Sanctify unto me every firstborn that openeth the womb among the children of Israel, as well of men as of beasts: for they are all mine.

But he led them about by the way of the desert, which is by the Red Sea: and the children of Israel went up armed out of the land of Egypt.

And Moses took Joseph’s bones with him: because he had adjured the children of Israel, saying: God shall visit you, carry out my bones from hence with you.

Speak to the children of Israel: Let them turn and encamp over against Phihahiroth, which is between Magdal and the sea over against Beelsephon: you shall encamp before it upon the sea.

And Pharao will say of the children of Israel: They are straitened in the land, the desert hath shut them in.

And the Lord hardened the heart of Pharao, king of Egypt, and he pursued the children of Israel; but they were gone forth in a mighty hand.