Exodus 12:29-42

Thomson(i) 29 And when they had so done, it came to pass that at midnight the Lord smote all the first born in the land of Egypt, from the first born of Pharao, who sat on the throne to the first born of the captive in the dungeon, and even the first born of all the cattle. 30 Whereupon Pharao arose by night he and all his attendants and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in all the land of Egypt; for there was not a family in which there was not one dead. 31 And Pharao called for Moses and Aaron by night and said to them, Arise and depart from among my people, both you and the Israelites. Go and serve the Lord your God as you say. 32 Take your flocks and your herds and go away, and bless me, I beseech you. 33 And the Egyptians pressed the people with great earnestness to hurry them away out of the country; for they said, We shall all die. 34 So the people took up, upon their shoulders, their dough which had not yet been leavened: the masses of mixed up meal, bound up in their mantles 35 now the Israelites had done as Moses commanded them; they had asked of the Egyptian gold and silver vessels and raiment, 36 and the Lord had given his people favour in the sight of the Egyptians and they had supplied them, so they spoiled the Egyptians 37 and the Israelites to the number of six hundred thousand men on foot besides women and children began their march from Ramesses to Succoth. 38 And there went up with them a mixed multitude with flocks and herds and cattle in great abundance. 39 And of the dough which they brought out of Egypt they baked unleavened cakes, for it had not been leavened: for the Egyptians hurried them away and they could not wait, and they had not dressed any provisions for themselves for the journey. 40 Now the sojourning of the Israelites which they and their fathers had sojourned in the land of Egypt and in the land of Chanaan was four hundred and thirty years. 41 And at the end of four hundred and thirty years all the host of the Lord came out of the land of Egypt. 42 At night there was a watch for the Lord. This watch of the Lord was instituted that very night to bring them out of the land of Egypt. That it might be kept by all the children of Israel throughout their generations,