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JANUARY 31
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with its legs and its entrails. You shall let to come into your houses to strike you. And
none of it remain until morning, and what you shall observe this thing as an ordinance
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remains of it until morning you shall burn for you and your sons forever. It will come to
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with fire. And thus you shall eat it: with a belt pass when you come to the land which the
on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and LORD will give you, just as He promised, that
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your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in you shall keep this service. And it shall be,
haste. It is the LORD’s Passover. when your children say to you, ‘What do you
12 ‘For I will pass through the land of Egypt mean by this service?’ that you shall say, ‘It is
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on that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the Passover sacrifice of the LORD, who passed
the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and over the houses of the children of Israel in
against all the gods of Egypt I will execute Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and
judgment: I am the LORD. Now the blood delivered our households.’ ” So the people
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shall be a sign for you on the houses where bowed their heads and worshiped. Then the
you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass children of Israel went away and did so; just as
over you; and the plague shall not be on you to the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron,
destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt. so they did.
14 ‘So this day shall be to you a memorial; and 29 And it came to pass at midnight that the
you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD LORD struck all the firstborn in the land of
throughout your generations. You shall keep it Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat
as a feast by an everlasting ordinance. Seven on his throne to the firstborn of the captive
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days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn
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first day you shall remove leaven from your of livestock. So Pharaoh rose in the night, he,
houses. For whoever eats leavened bread all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and
from the first day until the seventh day, that there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was
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person shall be cut off from Israel. On the not a house where there was not one dead.
first day there shall be a holy convocation, and 31 Then he called for Moses and Aaron by
on the seventh day there shall be a holy con- night, and said, “Rise, go out from among my
vocation for you. No manner of work shall be people, both you and the children of Israel.
done on them; but that which everyone must And go, serve the LORD as you have said.
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eat—that only may be prepared by you. So 32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as you
you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened have said, and be gone; and bless me also.”
Bread, for on this same day I will have brought 33 And the Egyptians urged the people, that
your armies out of the land of Egypt. There- they might send them out of the land in haste.
fore you shall observe this day throughout For they said, “We shall all be dead.” So the
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your generations as an everlasting ordinance. people took their dough before it was leav-
18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of ened, having their kneading bowls bound up
the month at evening, you shall eat unleav- in their clothes on their shoulders. Now
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ened bread, until the twenty-first day of the the children of Israel had done according to
month at evening. For seven days no leaven the word of Moses, and they had asked from
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shall be found in your houses, since whoever the Egyptians articles of silver, articles of
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eats what is leavened, that same person shall gold, and clothing. And the LORD had given
be cut off from the congregation of Israel, the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians,
whether he is a stranger or a native of the land. so that they granted them what they requested.
20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your Thus they plundered the Egyptians.
dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’ ” 37 Then the children of Israel journeyed from
21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thou-
Israel and said to them, “Pick out and take sand men on foot, besides children. A mixed
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lambs for yourselves according to your fami- multitude went up with them also, and flocks
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lies, and kill the Passover lamb. 22 And you and herds—a great deal of livestock. And
shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the they baked unleavened cakes of the dough
blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel which they had brought out of Egypt; for it
and the two doorposts with the blood that is in was not leavened, because they were driven
the basin. And none of you shall go out of the out of Egypt and could not wait, nor had they
door of his house until morning. For the prepared provisions for themselves.
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LORD will pass through to strike the Egyp- 40 Now the sojourn of the children of Israel
tians; and when He sees the blood on the lin- who lived in Egypt was four hundred and thir-
tel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will ty years. And it came to pass at the end of the
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pass over the door and not allow the destroyer four hundred and thirty years—on that very
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