Thomson(i)
1 Moreover the Lord spoke to Moses saying,
2 Consecrate to me every first born. Every first born among the children of Israel, whether man or beast, is mine.
3 Therefore Moses said to the people, Remember this day, in which you came out from the land of Egypt; from the house of bondage. For with a strong hand the Lord hath brought you out from this place; and let no leaven be eaten,
4 for on this day you are marching out in the month of new things.
5 And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land of the Chananites and the Chettites and the Amorites, and the Evites and the Jebusites and the Gergasites and the Pherezites which the Lord with an oath promised to thy fathers that he would give thee; a land flowing with milk and honey, thou shalt perform this religious service in this month.
6 Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a festival to the Lord.
7 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. Nothing that is leavened shall be seen with thee; nor shalt thou have leaven in all thy borders.
8 And on that day thou shalt tell thy son and say, This is on the account of what the Lord God did for me, when I came out of Egypt.
9 And it shall be to thee for a sign on thy hand and for a memorial before thy eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in thy mouth; for with a strong hand the Lord thy God hath brought thee out of Egypt;
10 therefore you shall observe this law in revolving seasons from year to year.
11 And when the Lord thy God shall have brought thee into the land of the Chananites, as he sware to thy fathers, and shall give it to thee,
12 thou shalt set apart every first born; all the males for the Lord. Every firstling of the kine or among the cattle which thou mayst have, even all the males thou shalt consecrate to the Lord.
13 Every firstling of an ass thou shalt exchange for a sheep, and if thou wilt not exchange it thou must redeem it. And every male first born of thy children thou shalt redeem.
14 And if at any time hereafter, thy son should ask thee saying, What is the meaning of this? thou shalt say to him, Because with a strong hand the Lord brought us out of the land of Egypt; from the house of bondage;
15 and, when Pharao hardened himself against sending us away, the Lord slew every first born in the land of Egypt, both the first born of men and the first born of cattle, therefore I sacrifice all firstlings; all the males to the Lord: and every male first born of my children I must redeem.
16 And it shall be for a sign on thy hand, and immoveably before thy eyes. For with a strong hand the Lord brought thee out of Egypt.
17 Now when Pharao sent away the people, God did not lead them by the way to the land of the Philistines, because it was near. For God said, Perhaps the people will repent when they see war and will return to Egypt:
18 therefore God led the people by a circuitous march to the wilderness; to the Red sea. And in the fifth generation the Israelites went up out of the land of Egypt.
19 And Moses took with him the bones of Joseph. For with an oath he had adjured the Israelites saying, The Lord will assuredly visit you and you shall carry hence my bones with you.
20 And the children of Israel removed from Succoth and encamped at Otham on the edge of the wilderness.
21 And God went before them, by day in a pillar of a cloud to shew them the way, and at night in a pillar of fire.
22 And there was no failure of the pillar of a cloud by day, and of the pillar of fire by night before all the people.