1Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2"This month will be the first month of your year. It will be the beginning of your months.
3Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month, each man is to take a lamb for his family, one lamb per household.
4If a household is too small for a whole lamb, then that family and their closest neighbor should share one, counting how many people there are and how much each person can eat.
5Your lamb must be a perfect, one-year-old male. You may choose it from the sheep or the goats.
6You must keep it until the evening of the fourteenth day of the same month. Then, the whole community of Israel should kill it.
7They must take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the top doorframe of the houses where they will eat the lamb.
8That night, they must eat the meat roasted over a fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
9Do not eat it raw or boiled in water. It must be roasted over a fire, including its head, legs, and internal organs.
10You must not leave any of it until morning. If anything remains until morning, you must burn it.
11This is how you must eat it: with your belt tightened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You must eat it quickly, because it is Yahweh's Passover.
12That night I will go through the land of Egypt and kill every firstborn son and firstborn animal in Egypt. I will also punish all the gods of Egypt, for I am Yahweh.
13The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are. When I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no harmful plague will touch you when I strike the land of Egypt.
14This day will be a memorial for you. You must celebrate it as a festival to Yahweh, and your descendants must celebrate it as a permanent ordinance.
15For seven days you must eat bread made without yeast. On the first day you must remove all yeast from your houses, because anyone who eats leavened bread from the first day to the seventh day will be cut off from Israel.
16On the first day you will have a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. You must not do any work on these days, except prepare the food that everyone needs to eat; only that may be done.
17You must observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because on this very day I brought your armies out of Egypt. Therefore, your descendants must observe this day as a permanent ordinance.
18In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day, you must eat unleavened bread.
19For seven days no yeast should be found in your houses. Anyone, whether a foreigner or someone born in the land, who eats anything with yeast in it will be cut off from the community of Israel.
20You must not eat anything with yeast. In all your homes, you must eat unleavened bread.
21Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and told them, "Select and take lambs for your families and kill the Passover lamb."
22Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood from the basin, and put some blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. No one among you should leave the door of their house until morning.
23For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians. When he sees the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe, Yahweh will pass over that door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.
24You and your descendants must always observe this command.
25When you enter the land that Yahweh will give you, as he promised, you must continue this service.
26When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’
27you are to say, ‘It is the sacrifice of Yahweh’s Passover, because he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he struck down the Egyptians, but spared our homes.’” The people bowed down and worshiped.
28So the Israelites left and did just as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron.
29At midnight, Yahweh killed every firstborn son in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn of the livestock.
30Pharaoh got up during the night, along with all his officials and all the Egyptians. There was a loud cry throughout Egypt, because there was no house where someone had not died.
31During the night, Pharaoh sent for Moses and Aaron and said, "Get up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go and worship Yahweh, as you said you would!
32Take your flocks and your herds, as you requested, and leave. And please bless me as well!"
33The Egyptians urged the people to leave the land quickly, saying, "We will all die!"
34So the people took their dough before it had risen, carrying their kneading bowls wrapped in their clothes on their shoulders.
35The Israelites did what Moses told them, and they asked the Egyptians for silver jewelry, gold jewelry, and clothing.
36Yahweh made the Egyptians think well of the people, so they gave them whatever they asked for. In this way, the Israelites took valuable items from the Egyptians.
37The Israelites traveled from Rameses to Succoth. There were about 600,000 men on foot, not counting the children.
38Many other people, not just Israelites, also left with them, along with large flocks and herds of livestock.
39They baked unleavened cakes from the dough they had brought out of Egypt. The dough had no yeast because they were forced to leave Egypt so quickly that they couldn't wait, and they hadn't prepared any food for themselves.
40The Israelites lived in Egypt for 430 years.
41Exactly 430 years later, on that very day, all of Yahweh's people left the land of Egypt.
42That night is to be honored by Yahweh for bringing them out of Egypt. It is a night for all Israelites to honor Yahweh throughout their generations.
43Yahweh told Moses and Aaron, "These are the rules for the Passover: No foreigner may eat it.
44But any servant you bought with money may eat it, after you have circumcised him.
45A temporary resident or a hired worker may not eat it.
46It must be eaten in one house. You must not take any of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of its bones.
47The entire community of Israel must celebrate it.
48If a foreigner lives among you and wants to celebrate the Passover to Yahweh, all his males must be circumcised. Then he may come and celebrate it and will be treated like someone born in the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat it.
49There will be one law for those born in the land and for the foreigner living among you."
50All the people of Israel did as Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron.
51On that very day, Yahweh led the people of Israel out of Egypt in organized groups.