Exodus 12

vayyomer Adonai el-mosheh ve'el-aharon be'erets mitsrayim lemor

GOD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:

hakhodesh hazzeh lakhem rosh khodashim rishon hu lakhem lekhodshe hashanah

This month shall mark for you the beginning of the months; it shall be the first of the months of the year for you.

dabberu el-kol-adat yisra'el lemor be'asor lakhodesh hazzeh veyiqkhu lahem ish seh levet-avot seh labbayit

Speak to the whole community of Israel and say that on the tenth of this month each family shall take for itself a lamb, a lamb to a household.

ve'im-yimat habbayit mihyot misseh velaqakh hu ushekheno haqqarov el-beto bemikhsat nefashot ish lefi okhlo takhossu al-hasseh

But if the household is too small for a lamb, let it share one with a neighbor who dwells nearby, in proportion to the number of persons: you shall contribute for the lamb according to what each household will eat.

seh tamim zakhar ben-shanah yihyeh lakhem min-hakkevasim umin-ha'izzim tiqqakhu

Your lamb shall be without blemish, a yearling male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

vehayah lakhem lemishmeret ad arba'ah asar yom lakhodesh hazzeh veshakhatu oto kol qehal adat-yisra'el ben ha'arbayim

You shall keep watch over it until the fourteenth day of this month; and all the assembled congregation of the Israelites shall slaughter it at twilight.

velaqekhu min-haddam venatenu al-shete hammezuzot ve'al-hammashqof al habbattim asher-yokhelu oto bahem

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

ve'okhlu et-habbasar ballaylah hazzeh tseli-esh umatsot al-merorim yokheluhu

They shall eat the flesh that same night; they shall eat it roasted over the fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs.

al-tokhelu mimmennu na uvashel mevushal bammayim ki im-tseli-esh rosho al-kera'ayw ve'al-qirbo

Do not eat any of it raw, or cooked in any way with water, but roasted—head, legs, and entrails—over the fire.

velo-totiru mimmennu ad-boqer vehannotar mimmennu ad-boqer ba'esh tisrofu

You shall not leave any of it over until morning; if any of it is left until morning, you shall burn it.

vekhakhah tokhelu oto motnekhem khagurim na'alekhem beraglekhem umaqqelkhem beyedkhem va'akhaltem oto bekhippazon pesakh hu la-Adonai

This is how you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it hurriedly: it is a passover offering to GOD.

ve'avarti ve'erets-mitsrayim ballaylah hazzeh vehikketi khol-bekhor be'erets mitsrayim me'adam ve'ad-behemah uvekhol-elohe mitsrayim e'eseh shefatim ani Adonai

For that night I will go through the land of Egypt and strike down every [male] first-born in the land of Egypt, both human and animal; and I will mete out punishments to all the gods of Egypt, I GOD.

vehayah haddam lakhem le'ot al habbattim asher attem sham vera'iti et-haddam ufasakhti alekhem velo-yihyeh vakhem negef lemashkhit behakkoti be'erets mitsrayim

And the blood on the houses where you are staying shall be a sign for you: when I see the blood I will pass over you, so that no plague will destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

vehayah hayyom hazzeh lakhem lezikkaron vekhaggotem oto khag la-Adonai ledorotekhem khuqqat olam tekhogguhu

This day shall be to you one of remembrance: you shall celebrate it as a festival to GOD throughout the ages; you shall celebrate it as an institution for all time.

shivat yamim matsot tokhelu akh bayyom harishon tashbitu se'or mibbattekhem ki kol-okhel khamets venikhretah hannefesh hahiv miyyisra'el miyyom harishon ad-yom hashevi'i

Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; on the very first day you shall remove leaven from your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day to the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.

uvayyom harishon miqra-qodesh uvayyom hashevi'i miqra-qodesh yihyeh lakhem kol-melakhah lo-ye'aseh vahem akh asher ye'akhel lekhol-nefesh hu levaddo ye'aseh lakhem

You shall celebrate a sacred occasion on the first day, and a sacred occasion on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them; only what every person is to eat, that alone may be prepared for you.

ushemartem et-hammatsot ki be'etsem hayyom hazzeh hotseti et-tsivotekhem me'erets mitsrayim ushemartem et-hayyom hazzeh ledorotekhem khuqqat olam

You shall observe the [Feast of] Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your ranks out of the land of Egypt; you shall observe this day throughout the ages as an institution for all time.

barishon be'arba'ah asar yom lakhodesh ba'erev tokhelu matsot ad yom ha'ekhad ve'esrim lakhodesh ba'arev

In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.

shivat yamim se'or lo yimmatse bevattekhem ki kol-okhel makhmetset venikhretah hannefesh hahiv me'adat yisra'el bagger uve'ezrakh ha'arets

No leaven shall be found in your houses for seven days. For whoever eats what is leavened, that person—whether a stranger or a citizen of the country—shall be cut off from the community of Israel.

kol-makhmetset lo tokhelu bekhol moshevotekhem tokhelu matsot

You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your settlements you shall eat unleavened bread.

vayyiqra mosheh lekhol-ziqne yisra'el vayyomer alehem mishkhu uqekhu lakhem tson lemishpekhotekhem veshakhatu happasakh

Moses then summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go, pick out lambs for your families, and slaughter the passover offering.

uleqakhtem aguddat ezov utevaltem baddam asher-bassaf vehiggatem el-hammashqof ve'el-shete hammezuzot min-haddam asher bassaf ve'attem lo tetse'u ish mippetakh-beto ad-boqer

Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and to the two doorposts. None of you shall go outside the door of your house until morning.

ve'avar Adonai lingof et-mitsrayim vera'ah et-haddam al-hammashqof ve'al shete hammezuzot ufasakh Adonai al-happetakh velo yitten hammashkhit lavo el-battekhem lingof

For GOD, when going through to smite the Egyptians, will see the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts, and GOD will pass over the door and not let the Destroyer enter and smite your home.

ushemartem et-haddavar hazzeh lekhoq-lekha ulevanekha ad-olam

“You shall observe this as an institution for all time, for you and for your descendants.

vehayah ki-tavo'u el-ha'arets asher yitten Adonai lakhem ka'asher dibber ushemartem et-ha'avodah hazzot

And when you enter the land that GOD will give you, as promised, you shall observe this rite.

vehayah ki-yomeru alekhem benekhem mah ha'avodah hazzot lakhem

And when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this rite?’

va'amartem zevakh-pesakh hu la-Adonai asher pasakh al-batte vene-yisra'el bemitsrayim benogpo et-mitsrayim ve'et-battenu hitsil vayyiqqod ha'am vayyishtakhavu

you shall say, ‘It is the passover sacrifice to GOD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when smiting the Egyptians, but saved our houses.’” Those assembled then bowed low in homage.

vayyelekhu vayya'asu bene yisra'el ka'asher tsivvah Adonai et-mosheh ve'aharon ken asu

And the Israelites went and did so; just as GOD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

vayehi bakhatsi hallaylah va-Adonai hikkah khol-bekhor be'erets mitsrayim mibbekhor paroh hayyoshev al-kiso ad bekhor hashevi asher bevet habbor vekhol bekhor behemah

In the middle of the night GOD struck down all the [male] first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sat on the throne to the first-born of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the first-born of the cattle.

vayyaqom paroh laylah hu vekhol-avadayw vekhol-mitsrayim vattehi tse'aqah gedolah bemitsrayim ki-en bayit asher en-sham met

And Pharaoh arose in the night, with all his courtiers and all the Egyptians—because there was a loud cry in Egypt; for there was no house where there was not someone dead.

vayyiqra lemosheh ule'aharon laylah vayyomer qumu tse'u mittokh ammi gam-attem gam-bene yisra'el ulekhu ivdu et-Adonai kedabberkhem

He summoned Moses and Aaron in the night and said, “Up, depart from among my people, you and the Israelites with you! Go, worship GOD as you said!

gam-tsonekhem gam-beqarkhem qekhu ka'asher dibbartem valekhu uverakhtem gam-oti

Take also your flocks and your herds, as you said, and begone! And may you bring a blessing upon me also!”

vattekhezaq mitsrayim al-ha'am lemaher leshallekham min-ha'arets ki ameru kullanu metim

The Egyptians urged the people on, impatient to have them leave the country, for they said, “We shall all be dead.”

vayyissa ha'am et-betseqo terem yekhmats misharotam tserurot besimlotam al-shikhmam

So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls wrapped in their cloaks upon their shoulders.

uvene-yisra'el asu kidvar mosheh vayyishalu mimmitsrayim kele-khesef ukhele zahav usemalot

The Israelites had done Moses’ bidding and borrowed from the Egyptians objects of silver and gold, and clothing.

va-Adonai natan et-khen ha'am be'ene mitsrayim vayyashilum vayenatselu et-mitsrayim

And GOD had disposed the Egyptians favorably toward the people, and they let them have their request; thus they stripped the Egyptians.

vayyisu vene-yisra'el merameses sukkotah keshesh-me'ot elef ragli haggevarim levad mittaf

The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand fighting men on foot, aside from noncombatants.

vegam-erev rav alah ittam vetson uvaqar miqneh kaved me'od

Moreover, a mixed multitude went up with them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds.

vayyofu et-habbatseq asher hotsi'u mimmitsrayim ugot matsot ki lo khamets ki-goreshu mimmitsrayim velo yakhelu lehitmahmeah vegam-tsedah lo-asu lahem

And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they had taken out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, since they had been driven out of Egypt and could not delay; nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves.

umoshav bene yisra'el asher yashevu bemitsrayim sheloshim shanah ve'arba me'ot shanah

The length of time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years;

vayehi miqqets sheloshim shanah ve'arba me'ot shanah vayehi be'etsem hayyom hazzeh yatse'u kol-tsivot Adonai me'erets mitsrayim

at the end of the four hundred and thirtieth year, to the very day, all the ranks of GOD departed from the land of Egypt.

lel shimmurim hu la-Adonai lehotsi'am me'erets mitsrayim hu-hallaylah hazzeh la-Adonai shimmurim lekhol-bene yisra'el ledorotam

That was for GOD a night of vigil to bring them out of the land of Egypt; that same night is GOD’s, one of vigil for all the children of Israel throughout the ages.

vayyomer Adonai el-mosheh ve'aharon zot khuqqat happasakh kol-ben-nekhar lo-yokhal bo

GOD said to Moses and Aaron: This is the law of the passover offering: No foreigner shall eat of it.

vekhol-eved ish miqnat-kasef umaltah oto az yokhal bo

But any [male] slave you have bought may eat of it once he has been circumcised.

toshav vesakhir lo-yokhal bo

No bound or hired laborer shall eat of it.

bevayit ekhad ye'akhel lo-totsi min-habbayit min-habbasar khutsah ve'etsem lo tishberu-vo

It shall be eaten in one house: you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house; nor shall you break a bone of it.

kol-adat yisra'el ya'asu oto

The whole community of Israel shall offer it.

vekhi-yagur ittekha ger ve'asah fesakh la-Adonai himmol lo khol-zakhar ve'az yiqrav la'asoto vehayah ke'ezrakh ha'arets vekhol-arel lo-yokhal bo

If a stranger who dwells with you would offer the passover to GOD, all his males must be circumcised; then he shall be admitted to offer it; he shall then be as a citizen of the country. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.

torah akhat yihyeh la'ezrakh velagger haggar betokhekhem

There shall be one law for the citizen and for the stranger who dwells among you.

vayya'asu kol-bene yisra'el ka'asher tsivvah Adonai et-mosheh ve'et-aharon ken asu

And all the Israelites did so; as GOD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

vayehi be'etsem hayyom hazzeh hotsi Adonai et-bene yisra'el me'erets mitsrayim al-tsivotam

That very day GOD freed the Israelites from the land of Egypt, troop by troop.