Exodus Chapter 12

• Exodus 12:1
  Exodus.
• Exodus 12:2
  The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
• Exodus 12:3
  “This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.
• Exodus 12:4
  Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers...
• Exodus 12:5
  and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls. You sha...
• Exodus 12:6
  Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep or from the goats.
• Exodus 12:7
  You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.
• Exodus 12:8
  They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two door posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.
• Exodus 12:9
  They shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, with unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.
• Exodus 12:10
  Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.
• Exodus 12:11
  You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.
• Exodus 12:12
  This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it ...
• Exodus 12:13
  For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. I will execute jud...
• Exodus 12:14
  The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are. When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will be on you to destroy...
• Exodus 12:15
  This day shall be a memorial for you. You shall keep it as a feast to the LORD. You shall keep it as a feast throughout your generations by an ordinan...
• Exodus 12:16
  “‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the ...
• Exodus 12:17
  In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no kind of work shall be done in them, except th...
• Exodus 12:18
  You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe...
• Exodus 12:19
  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.
• Exodus 12:20
  There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation...
• Exodus 12:21
  You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.’”
• Exodus 12:22
  Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.
• Exodus 12:23
  You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in...
• Exodus 12:24
  For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door posts, the LORD will pass over t...
• Exodus 12:25
  You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.
• Exodus 12:26
  It shall happen when you have come to the land which the LORD will give you, as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.
• Exodus 12:27
  It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’
• Exodus 12:28
  that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egy...
• Exodus 12:29
  The children of Israel went and did so; as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
• Exodus 12:30
  At midnight, the LORD struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the capti...
• Exodus 12:31
  Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where the...
• Exodus 12:32
  He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD,...
• Exodus 12:33
  Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!”
• Exodus 12:34
  The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We are all dead men.”
• Exodus 12:35
  The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.
• Exodus 12:36
  The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing.
• Exodus 12:37
  The LORD gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They plundered the Egyptians.
• Exodus 12:38
  The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, in addition to children.
• Exodus 12:39
  A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.
• Exodus 12:40
  They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of Egypt; for it wasn’t leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn’t ...
• Exodus 12:41
  Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.
• Exodus 12:42
  At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, all of the LORD’s armies went out from the land of Egypt.
• Exodus 12:43
  It is a night to be much observed to the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of the LORD, to be much observed by all...
• Exodus 12:44
  The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,
• Exodus 12:45
  but every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.
• Exodus 12:46
  A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.
• Exodus 12:47
  It must be eaten in one house. You shall not carry any of the meat outside of the house. Do not break any of its bones.
• Exodus 12:48
  All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
• Exodus 12:49
  When a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, and would like to keep the Passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him com...
• Exodus 12:50
  One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you.”
• Exodus 12:51
  All the children of Israel did so. As the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
• Exodus 12:52
  That same day, the LORD brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.