Exodus 12:1-20

MSTC^{(i) 1} And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, ² "This month shall be your chief month: even the first month of the year shall it be unto you. ³ Speak ye unto all the fellowship of Israel, saying that they take, the tenth day of this month, to every household: a sheep. ⁴ If the household be too few for a sheep, then let him and his neighbor that is next unto this house, take according to the number of souls, and count unto a sheep according to every man's eating. ⁵ A sheep without spot and a male of one year old shall it be, and from among the lambs and the goats shall ye take it. ⁶ And ye shall keep him inward, until the fourteenth day of the same month. And every man of the multitude of Israel shall kill him about even. ⁷ And they shall take of the blood and strike on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost of the houses, wherein they eat him. ⁸ And they shall eat the flesh the same night, roast with fire, and with unleavened bread, and with sour herbs they shall eat it. ⁹ See that ye eat not thereof sodden in water, but roast with fire: both head, feet, and purtenance together. ¹⁰ And see that ye let nothing of it remain unto the morning: if ought remain, burn it with fire. ¹¹ Of this manner shall ye eat it: with your loins girded, and shoes on your feet, and your staves in your hands. And ye shall eat it in haste; for it is the LORD's Passover. ¹² "For I will go about in the land of Egypt this same night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both of man and beast, and upon all the gods of Egypt will I the LORD do execution. ¹³ And the blood shall be unto you a token, upon the houses wherein ye are; for 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. ¹⁴ And this day shall be unto you a remembrance, and ye shall keep it holy unto the LORD: even throughout your generations after you shall ye keep it holy day, that it be a custom forever. ¹⁵ Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread, so that 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 plucked out from Israel. ¹⁶ "The first day shall be a holy feast unto you, and the seventh also. There shall be no manner of work done in them, save about that only which every man must eat: that only may ye do. ¹⁷ And see that ye keep you to unleavened bread. For upon that same day I will bring your armies out of the land of Egypt, therefore ye shall observe this day and all your children after you, that it be a custom forever. ¹⁸ The first month and the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat sweet bread unto the twenty-first day of the month at even again. ¹⁹ Seven days see that there be no leavened bread found in your houses. For whosoever eateth leavened bread, that soul shall be rooted out from the multitude of Israel: whether he be a stranger or born in the land. ²⁰ Therefore see that ye eat no leavened bread, but in all your habitations eat sweet bread."