1 ARST Yahweh said to Aaron and Moses in Egypt, BSB BSB: Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
2 ARST “Start counting your months at this new moon. It will be the Israelites’ first month of the year. BSB BSB: “This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.
3 ARST Tell the whole Israelite community,‘On the tenth day of this month every man who leads a family must take a young sheep or a young goat for his household. BSB BSB: Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must select a lamb for his family, one per household.
4 ARST If there are not enough people in his family to eat a whole cooked lamb, then his family and a family that lives nearby may kill one animal. Plan to share the lamb according to the number of people in each family and according to how much each person can eat. BSB BSB: If the household is too small for a whole lamb, they are to share with the nearest neighbor based on the number of people, and apportion the lamb accordingly.
5 ARST You may choose a sheep or a goat; but it must be a one- year- old male, and it must be perfect, without any defects. BSB BSB: Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.
6 ARST You must take special care of these animals until the fourteenth day of this month. On that day, all the Israelites must kill the young sheep or young goats in the evening. BSB BSB: You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.
7 ARST Then they must take some of the blood from the young sheep or young goats, and they must smear it on the two doorposts and on the tops of the doorframes of the houses in which they will eat the meat. BSB BSB: They are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.
8 ARST They must roast the animals over a fire and eat the meat that same night. They must eat it with bitter herbs and with bread that does not have yeast in it. BSB BSB: They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
9 ARST You must not eat any of the meat uncooked, and you must not cook the meat in water. You must do this: cook the whole animal over a fire. Do not remove the head, legs, or inside parts. BSB BSB: Do not eat any of the meat raw or cooked in boiling water, but only roasted over the fire—its head and legs and inner parts.
10 ARST Do not save any of the meat until the next morning. Any meat that you have not eaten by morning, you must burn to ash. BSB BSB: Do not leave any of it until morning; before the morning you must burn up any part that is left over.
11 ARST When you eat it, you must be dressed ready to travel. You must have your sandals on your feet and your walking staff in your hands. You must eat it hurriedly. It will be a festival called Passover to honor me, Yahweh. BSB BSB: This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.
12 ARST On that night I will go throughout Egypt, and I will kill all the oldest males in Egypt, both humans and animals. I am punishing all the Egyptians’ gods. I am Yahweh. BSB BSB: On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn male, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.
13 ARST The blood on your houses will show that you are obeying me. When I see the blood, I will go past those houses. I will not harm the people who are in those houses when I come to punish the Egyptians. BSB BSB: The blood on the houses where you are staying will be a sign; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will fall on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
14 ARST You will make this day a feast to remember and celebrate what I, Yahweh, will have done for you. This is a rule for you: every generation of Israelites must celebrate this annual feast for all of time. BSB BSB: And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.
15 ARST For seven days you must eat bread that has no yeast in it. On the first day of that week, you must remove all the yeast that is in your houses. During those seven days, if anyone eats bread that has yeast in it, you must drive that person out from your people. BSB BSB: For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.
16 ARST On the first day of that week, you must have a holy meeting. You must do the same thing on the seventh day. People must not work at all on those two days. The only work you may do is to prepare food to eat. BSB BSB: On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly, and another on the seventh day. You must not do any work on those days, except to prepare the meals—that is all you may do.
17 ARST You must celebrate the Feast of Unleavened Bread on this day because this day is exactly when I am rescuing all your tribes from slavery in Egypt. This is a law for you: every generation of Israelites for all of time must celebrate to remember that I rescued you on this day. BSB BSB: So you are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your divisions out of the land of Egypt. You must keep this day as a permanent statute for the generations to come.
18 ARST On the evening of the fourteenth day of the first month of the year, you must stop eating bread that has yeast in it. You may not eat bread with yeast in it again until the evening of the twenty- first day of that month. BSB BSB: In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
19 ARST For those seven days you must not have any yeast in your house. During that time, if anyone— either a foreigner or an Israelite— eats bread that has yeast in it, you must drive that person out from your people. BSB BSB: For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation of Israel.
20 ARST Do not eat any yeast. Wherever you are living, you must eat bread that does not have yeast in it.’” BSB BSB: You are not to eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.”
21 ARST Then Moses summoned all the Israelite leaders. He said to them,“Each family should select a young sheep or young goat and kill it to eat it to celebrate the festival that you will call‘Passover.’ BSB BSB: Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, “Go at once and select for yourselves a lamb for each family, and slaughter the Passover lamb.
22 ARST { Let the lamb’ s blood drain} into a bowl. Get a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood. Then wipe some of the blood on the top of the doorframe and on the doorposts of your houses. The people in each house must stay inside the house until the next morning. BSB BSB: Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.
23 ARST When Yahweh goes through Egypt to kill every oldest male, he will see the blood on your doorframes. Because of that, he will pass over those houses and will not allow the killing- destroyer to enter your houses to kill your oldest sons. BSB BSB: When the LORD passes through to strike down the Egyptians, He will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway; so He will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
24 ARST You and your descendants must celebrate this ritual forever; this is a law. BSB BSB: And you are to keep this command as a permanent statute for you and your descendants.
25 ARST When you arrive in the land that Yahweh will give to you as he promised, you must keep celebrating this ritual every year. BSB BSB: When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as He promised, you are to keep this service.
26 ARST When your children ask you,‘What does this ritual mean?’ BSB BSB: When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’
27 ARST you must tell them,‘This ritual is to remember how your ancestors sacrificed lambs on the night that Yahweh’ s angel passed over the houses of the Israelites when they were in Egypt. He killed the oldest males in all the Egyptian houses, but he did not kill the sons in our houses.” After Moses told them this, the elders all bowed their heads and worshiped Yahweh. BSB BSB: you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.
28 ARST Then the Israelites did exactly what Yahweh told Moses and Aaron to tell them to do. BSB BSB: And the Israelites went and did just what the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.
29 ARST At midnight Yahweh killed all the Egyptians’ oldest sons, all over Egypt. This included the rich king’ s oldest son, the oldest sons of the prisoners in the dungeons, and the oldest males of all the{ Egyptians’} livestock. BSB BSB: Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock.
30 ARST That night the king, all his officials, and all the rest of the Egyptians awoke and discovered what had happened. They wailed loudly all over Egypt, because in every house someone’ s son had died. BSB BSB: During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.
31 ARST That night the king summoned Moses and Aaron and said,“Get up, you and all the other Israelites, and get away from my people and country now! Go and worship Yahweh, as you requested! BSB BSB: Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Get up, leave my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested.
32 ARST You may even take your flocks of sheep and goats and herds of cattle just as you requested. Just leave! Ask Yahweh to bless me also!” BSB BSB: Take your flocks and herds as well, just as you have said, and depart! And bless me also.”
33 ARST The Egyptians helped the Israelites to leave their country quickly. They said,“Otherwise, we will all die!” BSB BSB: And in order to send them out of the land quickly, the Egyptians urged the people on. “For otherwise,” they said, “we are all going to die!”
34 ARST So the Israelites prepared to leave at once. They took the bowls in which they mixed the dough to make bread and the dough that was in the bowls without any yeast in it, and they wrapped the bowls in their cloaks. They put the bowls on their shoulders. BSB BSB: So the people took their dough before it was leavened, carrying it on their shoulders in kneading bowls wrapped in clothing.
35 ARST Then the Israelites did as Moses told them. They went to their Egyptian neighbors and asked them for silver, gold, and clothing. BSB BSB: Furthermore, the Israelites acted on Moses’ word and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold, and for clothing.
36 ARST Yahweh caused the Egyptians to greatly respect the Israelites, so they gave them what they asked for. In that way, the Israelites carried away the wealth of the Egyptians. BSB BSB: And the LORD gave the people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that they granted their request. In this way they plundered the Egyptians.
38 ARST Many other people who were not Israelites went along with them. There was also a large amount of livestock, including flocks of sheep and goats and herds of cattle. BSB BSB: And a mixed multitude also went up with them, along with great droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.
39 ARST Pharaoh forced the Israelites to leave Egypt so quickly that they did not have time to prepare food to take with them or to allow the bread dough to form yeast. When they made bread with the dough they brought from Egypt, they made flatbread because it did not have yeast. BSB BSB: Since their dough had no leaven, the people baked what they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves. For when they had been driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves.
40 ARST The Israelites had lived in Egypt for 430 years. BSB BSB: Now the duration of the Israelites’ stay in Egypt was 430 years.
41 ARST On the day that those 430 years ended, on that very day, all the tribes of Yahweh’ s people left Egypt. BSB BSB: At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions went out of the land of Egypt.
42 ARST It was a night when the Israelites stayed awake as Yahweh brought them out of Egypt. So this same night every year is a night that they dedicate to Yahweh, a night when the Israelites and their descendants in every generation remember how Yahweh kept their ancestors safe. BSB BSB: Because the LORD kept a vigil that night to bring them out of the land of Egypt, this same night is to be a vigil to the LORD, to be observed by all the Israelites for the generations to come.
43 ARST Then Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron,“This is the law about the Passover ritual: Do not let foreigners eat the Passover meal. BSB BSB: And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.
44 ARST But if anyone buys a slave and circumcises him, that slave may eat the Passover meal. BSB BSB: But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.
45 ARST Do not let people who are living temporarily among you who are not Israelites or servants to whom you pay money eat the Passover meal. BSB BSB: A temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover.
46 ARST You must eat the Passover meal inside one house. Do not take any of the meat outside the house. Do not break the lamb’ s bones. BSB BSB: It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of the bones.
47 ARST The whole Israelite community must celebrate this festival. BSB BSB: The whole congregation of Israel must celebrate it.
48 ARST When someone from another country comes to live with you and wants to celebrate Yahweh’ s Passover festival, circumcise all the males in his household. Then he can eat the Passover meal, and you should treat that man as though he had been born an Israelite. But do not allow men who are not circumcised to eat the Passover meal. BSB BSB: If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.
49 ARST These rules apply to people who were born as Israelites and to foreigners who come and live among you.” BSB BSB: The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”
50 ARST All the Israelites obeyed Moses and Aaron and did what Yahweh had commanded. BSB BSB: Then all the Israelites did this—they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.
51 ARST On that very day, Yahweh brought all the Israelite tribes out of Egypt. BSB BSB: And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.