Exodus 12
About Exodus Exodus tells how God freed Israel from slavery in Egypt, gave the law at Sinai, and came to dwell among them.
1And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,SelectedExodus 12:1Ask
2This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.SelectedExodus 12:2Ask
3Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:SelectedExodus 12:3Ask
4And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.SelectedExodus 12:4Ask
5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:SelectedExodus 12:5Ask
6And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.SelectedExodus 12:6Ask
7And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.SelectedExodus 12:7Ask
8And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.SelectedExodus 12:8Ask
9Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.SelectedExodus 12:9Ask
10And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.SelectedExodus 12:10Ask
11And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’s passover.SelectedExodus 12:11Ask
12For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.SelectedExodus 12:12Ask
13And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.SelectedExodus 12:13Ask
14And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.SelectedExodus 12:14Ask
15Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.SelectedExodus 12:15Ask
16And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.SelectedExodus 12:16Ask
17And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.SelectedExodus 12:17Ask
18In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.SelectedExodus 12:18Ask
19Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.SelectedExodus 12:19Ask
20Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.SelectedExodus 12:20Ask
21Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.SelectedExodus 12:21Ask
22And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.SelectedExodus 12:22Ask
23For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.SelectedExodus 12:23Ask
24And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.SelectedExodus 12:24Ask
25And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.SelectedExodus 12:25Ask
26And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?SelectedExodus 12:26Ask
27That ye 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 smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.SelectedExodus 12:27Ask
28And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.SelectedExodus 12:28Ask
29And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.SelectedExodus 12:29Ask
30And 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 there was not one dead.SelectedExodus 12:30Ask
31And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.SelectedExodus 12:31Ask
32Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.SelectedExodus 12:32Ask
33And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.SelectedExodus 12:33Ask
34And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.SelectedExodus 12:34Ask
35And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:SelectedExodus 12:35Ask
36And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.SelectedExodus 12:36Ask
37And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.SelectedExodus 12:37Ask
38And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.SelectedExodus 12:38Ask
39And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.SelectedExodus 12:39Ask
40Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.SelectedExodus 12:40Ask
41And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.SelectedExodus 12:41Ask
42It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.SelectedExodus 12:42Ask
43And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:SelectedExodus 12:43Ask
44But every man’s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.SelectedExodus 12:44Ask
45A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.SelectedExodus 12:45Ask
46In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.SelectedExodus 12:46Ask
47All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.SelectedExodus 12:47Ask
48And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.SelectedExodus 12:48Ask
49One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.SelectedExodus 12:49Ask
50Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.SelectedExodus 12:50Ask
51And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.SelectedExodus 12:51Ask
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