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And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron , in the land of Egypt , saying,
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`This month [is] to you the chief of months -- it [is] the first to you of the months of the year;
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speak ye unto all the company of Israel , saying, In the tenth of this month -- they take to them each man a lamb for the house of the fathers , a lamb for a house .
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`(And if the household be too few for a lamb, then hath he taken, he and his neighbour who is near unto his house , for the number of persons, each according to his eating ye do count for the lamb,)
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a lamb , a perfect one, a male, a son of a year, let be to you; from the sheep or from the goats ye do take [it].
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`And it hath become a charge to you, until the fourteenth day of this month , and the whole assembly of the company of Israel have slaughtered it between the evenings ;
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and they have taken of the blood , and have put on the two side -posts, and on the lintel over the houses in which they eat it.
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`And they have eaten the flesh in this night , roast with fire ; with unleavened things and bitters they do eat it;
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ye do not eat of it raw , or boiled at all in water , but roast with fire , its head with its legs , and with its inwards;
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and ye do not leave of it till morning , and that which is remaining of it till morning with fire ye do burn.
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`And thus ye do eat it: your loins girded , your sandals on your feet , and your staff in your hand , and ye have eaten it in haste; it is Jehovah's passover ,
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and I have passed over through the land of Egypt during this night , and have smitten every first-born in the land of Egypt , from man even unto beast , and on all the gods of Egypt I do judgments; I [am] Jehovah .
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`And the blood hath become a sign for you on the houses where ye [are], and I have seen the blood , and have passed over you, and a plague is not on you for destruction in My smiting in the land of Egypt .
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`And this day hath become to you a memorial , and ye have kept it a feast to Jehovah to your generations ; -- a statute age-during; ye keep it a feast.
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Seven days ye eat unleavened things; only -- in the first day ye cause leaven to cease out of your houses ; for any one eating anything fermented from the first day till the seventh day , even that person hath been cut off from Israel .
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`And in the first day [is] a holy convocation, and in the seventh day ye have a holy convocation; any work is not done in them, only that which is eaten by any person -- it alone is done by you,
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and ye have observed the unleavened things, for in this self-same day I have brought out your hosts from the land of Egypt , and ye have observed this day to your generations -- a statute age-during.
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`In the first [month ], in the fourteenth day of the month , in the evening , ye do eat unleavened things until the one and twentieth day of the month , at evening ;
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seven days leaven is not found in your houses , for any [one] eating anything fermented -- that person hath been cut off from the company of Israel , among the sojourners or among the natives of the land ;
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anything fermented ye do not eat , in all your dwellings ye do eat unleavened things.'
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And Moses calleth for all the elders of Israel , and saith unto them, `Draw out and take for yourselves [from] the flock , for your families , and slaughter the passover -sacrifice;
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and ye have taken a bunch of hyssop , and have dipped [it] in the blood which [is] in the basin, and have struck [it] on the lintel, and on the two side -posts, from the blood which [is] in the basin, and ye, ye go not out each from the opening of his house till morning .
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`And Jehovah hath passed on to smite the Egyptians , and hath seen the blood on the lintel, and on the two side -posts, and Jehovah hath passed over the opening , and doth not permit the destruction to come into your houses to smite .
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`And ye have observed this thing, for a statute to thee, and to thy sons -- unto the age;
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and it hath been, when ye come in unto the land which Jehovah giveth to you, as He hath spoken, that ye have kept this service ;
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and it hath come to pass when your sons say unto you, What [is] this service ye have?
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that ye have said , A sacrifice of passover it [is] to Jehovah , who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt , in His smiting the Egyptians , and our houses He delivered.'
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And the people bow and do obeisance, and the sons of Israel go and do as Jehovah commanded Moses and Aaron ; so have they done.
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And it cometh to pass, at midnight , that Jehovah hath smitten every first-born in the land of Egypt , from the first-born of Pharaoh who is sitting on his throne , unto the first-born of the captive who [is] in the prison -house , and every first-born of beasts .
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And Pharaoh riseth by night , he and all his servants , and all the Egyptians , and there is a great cry in Egypt , for there is not a house where there is not [one] dead ,
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and he calleth for Moses and for Aaron by night , and saith , `Rise , go out from the midst of my people, both ye and the sons of Israel , and go , serve Jehovah according to your word;
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both your flock and your herd take ye, as ye have spoken, and go; then ye have blessed also me.'
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And the Egyptians are urgent on the people, hasting to send them away out of the land , for they said , `We are all dead ;'
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and the people taketh up its dough before it is fermented, their kneading-troughs [are] bound up in their garments on their shoulder.
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And the sons of Israel have done according to the word of Moses , and they ask from the Egyptians vessels of silver and vessels of gold , and garments ;
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and Jehovah hath given the grace of the people in the eyes of the Egyptians , and they cause them to ask, and they spoil the Egyptians .
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And the sons of Israel journey from Rameses to Succoth , about six hundred thousand men on foot, apart from infants;
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and a great rabble also hath gone up with them, and flock and herd -- very much cattle .
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And they bake with the dough which they have brought out from Egypt unleavened cakes, for it hath not fermented; for they have been cast out of Egypt , and have not been able to delay , and also provision they have not made for themselves.
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And the dwelling of the sons of Israel which they have dwelt in Egypt [is] four hundred and thirty years;
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and it cometh to pass, at the end of four hundred and thirty years -- yea, it cometh to pass in this self-same day -- all the hosts of Jehovah have gone out from the land of Egypt .
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A night of watchings it [is] to Jehovah , to bring them out from the land of Egypt ; it [is] this night to Jehovah of watchings to all the sons of Israel to their generations .
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And Jehovah saith unto Moses and Aaron , `This [is] a statute of the passover ; Any son of a stranger doth not eat of it;
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and any man 's servant , the purchase of money , when thou hast circumcised him -- then he doth eat of it;
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a settler or hired servant doth not eat of it;
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in one house it is eaten , thou dost not carry out of the house [any] of the flesh without, and a bone ye do not break of it;
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all the company of Israel do keep it.
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`And when a sojourner sojourneth with thee, and hath made a passover to Jehovah , every male of his [is] to be circumcised , and then he doth come near to keep it, and he hath been as a native of the land , but any uncircumcised one doth not eat of it;
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one law is to a native, and to a sojourner who is sojourning in your midst .'
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And all the sons of Israel do as Jehovah commanded Moses and Aaron ; so have they done.
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And it cometh to pass in this self-same day , Jehovah hath brought out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt , by their hosts.