¹ És lõn az Úr beszéde hozzám a kilenczedik esztendõben, a tizedik hónapban, a hónapnak tizedikén, mondván:

² Embernek fia! írd fel magadnak e nap nevét, épen ezen napét: Babilon királya épen ezen a napon jött Jeruzsálemre.

³ És mondj példabeszédet a pártos házra, és mondjad nékik: Ezt mondja az Úr Isten: Tedd föl a fazekat, tedd föl, és tölts vizet is bele.

⁴ Gyûjtsd össze a bele való darabokat, minden jó darabot, czombot, lapoczkát; válogatott csontokkal töltsd meg.

⁵ Végy válogatott juhokat, és tégy máglyát a csontoknak is [a fazék] alá; forrald erõsen, még csontjai is fõjjenek benne.

⁶ Ezokáért így szól az Úr Isten: Jaj a vérontó városnak, a fazéknak, a melynek rozsdája benne van, és rozsdája nem ment le róla! Darabról darabra szedd ki, a mi benne van: nem esett sors reá.

⁷ Mert vére ott van közepében, kopasz sziklára ontotta, nem a földre öntötte, hogy por fedje be.

⁸ Hogy haragomat felindítsam és bosszút álljak, kopasz sziklára ontottam vérét, hogy be ne fedeztessék.

⁹ Azért így szól az Úr Isten: Jaj a vérontó városnak! én is nagy máglyát rakok!

¹⁰ Bõven rakd a fát, gyújtsd meg a tüzet, fõzd meg jól a húst, forrald a levet, és a csontok szétfõjjenek.

¹¹ És állítsd üresen az õ szenére, hogy meghevüljön s megtüzesedjék ércze, és megolvadjon benne tisztátalansága, megemésztessék rozsdája.

¹² A fáradozásokat kifárasztotta, és nem ment le róla az õ sok rozsdája, tûzbe hát rozsdájával!

¹³ A te tisztátalanságodban fajtalanság van, mivelhogy tisztogattalak, de meg nem tisztultál, azért tisztátalanságodból többé meg nem tisztulsz, míg meg nem nyugotom haragomat rajtad.

¹⁴ Én, az Úr szólottam; jõni fog és megcselekszem, el nem engedem s nem kedvezek és nem könyörülök: a te útaid és cselekedeteid szerint ítélnek meg téged, ezt mondja az Úr Isten.

¹⁵ És lõn az Úr beszéde hozzám, mondván:

¹⁶ Embernek fia! ímé, én elveszem tõled szemeidnek gyönyörûségét hirtelen halállal, és ne sírj és ne jajgass, se könyed ne hulljon.

¹⁷ Fohászkodjál csöndesen, halottakért való sírást ne tégy, fejékességedet kösd fel, és saruidat vedd lábaidra, s ne fedezd be bajuszodat, és az emberek kenyerét ne egyed.

¹⁸ És szólék reggel a néphez, és estére meghala feleségem, és úgy cselekedém reggel, a mint meg vala hagyva nékem.

¹⁹ És mondá nékem a nép: Avagy nem jelented-é meg nékünk, mit [jelentenek] ezek nékünk, hogy te így cselekszel?

²⁰ És mondék nékik: Az Úr beszéde volt én hozzám, mondván:

²¹ Mondd meg az Izráel házának: Ezt mondja az Úr Isten: Ímé, én megfertéztetem szenthelyemet, a ti erõsségteknek kevélységét, szemeitek gyönyörûségét, lelketek kívánságát, és fiaitok és leányaitok, kiket hátrahagytatok, fegyver miatt hullnak el.

²² És úgy cselekesztek, a mint én cselekedtem: bajuszotokat be nem fedezitek, s az emberek kenyerét nem eszitek,

²³ S fejékességtek fejeteken, és saruitok lábaitokon lesznek; nem sírtok s nem jajgattok, hanem megrothadtok vétkeitekben, s nyögve fohászkodtok egymáshoz.

²⁴ És lészen néktek Ezékiel csodajelül: a mint õ cselekedett, egészen úgy cselekesztek ti is, mikor ez eljõ; és megtudjátok, hogy én vagyok az Úr Isten.

²⁵ És te, embernek fia, bizonyára azon a napon, mikor elveszem tõlök erõsségöket, dicsõségök örömét, szemeik gyönyörûségét és lelkök kívánságát, fiaikat és leányaikat:

²⁶ Azon a napon, a ki megmenekült, eljõ hozzád, hogy hírt mondjon néked.

²⁷ Azon a napon megnyílik szád ott a megmenekült elõtt, és szólasz és tovább nem maradsz néma; s leszel nékik csodajelül, és megtudják, hogy én vagyok az Úr.

¹⁹ A magad gonoszsága fenyít meg téged, és a te elpártolásod büntet meg téged. Tudd meg hát és lásd meg: mily gonosz és keserves dolog, hogy elhagytad az Urat, a te Istenedet, és hogy nem félsz engemet, ezt mondja az Úr, a Seregeknek Ura.

¹ Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

² "This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.

³ 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' houses, a lamb for a household;

⁴ 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; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.

⁵ Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:

⁶ and 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.

⁷ They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.

⁸ They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.

⁹ Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.

¹⁰ You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.

¹¹ This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh's Passover.

¹² 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. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh.

¹³ The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

¹⁴ This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.

¹⁵ "'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 first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

¹⁶ 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 that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you.

¹⁷ You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever.

¹⁸ 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.

¹⁹ Seven days shall there be no yeast found in your houses, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.

²⁰ You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.'"

²¹ 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.

²² 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 doorposts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.

²³ For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two doorposts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.

²⁴ You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.

²⁵ It shall happen when you have come to the land which Yahweh will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.

²⁶ It will happen, when your children ask you, 'What do you mean by this service?'

²⁷ that you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.'" The people bowed their heads and worshiped.

²⁸ The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

²⁹ It happened at midnight, that Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of livestock.

³⁰ 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.

³¹ 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 Yahweh, as you have said!

³² Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!"

³³ The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, "We are all dead men."

³⁴ The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.

³⁵ 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.

³⁶ Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They despoiled the Egyptians.

³⁷ The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children.

³⁸ A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much livestock.

³⁹ They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt; for it wasn't leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn't wait, neither had they prepared for themselves any food.

⁴⁰ Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.

⁴¹ It happened at the end of four hundred thirty years, even the same day it happened, that all the armies of Yahweh went out from the land of Egypt.

⁴² It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Yahweh, to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations.

⁴³ Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it,

⁴⁴ but every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.

⁴⁵ A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.

⁴⁶ In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth anything of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall you break a bone of it.

⁴⁷ All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.

⁴⁸ When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.

⁴⁹ One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you."

⁵⁰ All the children of Israel did so. As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

⁵¹ It happened the same day, that Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.