1The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,2“This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. (出13:4; 出23:15; 出34:18; 申16:1)3Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. (出12:21)4And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, (利22:19; 申17:1; 玛1:8; 玛1:14; 來9:14)6and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.[1] (出12:18; 利23:5; 民9:3; 民28:16; 书5:10; 拉6:19)7“Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. (出12:22)8They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. (出23:18; 出34:25; 民9:11; 申16:3; 林前5:8)9Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. (申16:7; 代下35:13)10And you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. (出23:18; 出29:34; 出34:25; 利7:15; 申16:4)11In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Lord’s Passover. (出12:27; 利23:5; 申16:5; 路12:35; 林前5:7; 弗6:14; 彼前1:13)12For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the Lord. (出6:2; 出11:4; 出12:23; 民33:4; 赛43:11)13The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt. (來11:28)14“This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep it as a feast. (出12:17; 出12:24; 出12:43; 出13:9; 出13:10; 王下23:21)15Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. (创17:14; 出13:6; 出23:15; 出34:18; 出34:25; 利23:6; 民9:13; 民28:17; 申16:3; 申16:8; 林前5:7)16On the first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs to eat, that alone may be prepared by you. (利23:7; 民28:18; 民28:25)17And you shall observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever. (出7:4; 出12:51; 出13:3)18In 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. (利23:5; 民28:16)19For seven days no leaven is to be found in your houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native of the land. (出12:15; 出12:48)20You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.”21Then Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and select lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover lamb. (出12:3)22Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. (出12:7; 利14:6; 民19:18; 诗51:7; 赛26:20; 來9:19; 來11:28)23For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you. (出12:12; 出12:22; 结9:6; 來11:28; 启7:3; 启9:4)24You shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever.25And when you come to the land that the Lord will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service. (出3:8; 出3:17)26And when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ (出13:8; 出13:14; 申6:20; 申32:7; 书4:6; 书4:21; 诗78:3)27you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover, for he passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians but spared our houses.’” And the people bowed their heads and worshiped. (出4:31; 出12:11; 出12:21)28Then the people of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn
29At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock. (出4:23; 出11:4; 出11:5; 民8:17; 民33:4; 诗78:51; 诗105:36; 诗135:8; 诗136:10)30And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians. And there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where someone was not dead. (出11:6; 摩5:16)31Then he summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Up, go out from among my people, both you and the people of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as you have said. (出10:9)32Take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone, and bless me also!” (出10:24)
The Exodus
33The Egyptians were urgent with the people to send them out of the land in haste. For they said, “We shall all be dead.” (出6:1; 出11:1; 出11:8; 诗105:38)34So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders.35The people of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing. (出3:22; 出11:2)36And the Lord had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the Egyptians. (创15:14; 出3:21; 出11:3; 诗105:37)37And the people of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. (创47:11; 出1:11; 出38:26; 民1:46; 民2:32; 民11:21; 民26:51; 民33:3; 民33:5)38A mixed multitude also went up with them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds. (利24:10; 民11:4; 尼13:3)39And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they had brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not wait, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves. (出12:33; 申16:3)40The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was 430 years.41At the end of 430 years, on that very day, all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Egypt. (创15:13; 徒7:6; 加3:17)42It was a night of watching by the Lord, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; so this same night is a night of watching kept to the Lord by all the people of Israel throughout their generations. (申16:1)
Institution of the Passover
43And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it,44but every slave[2] that is bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him. (创17:12)45No foreigner or hired worker may eat of it. (利22:10)46It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, and you shall not break any of its bones. (民9:12; 约19:36)47All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. (出12:6)48If a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he shall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. (出12:19; 民9:14)49There shall be one law for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you.” (出12:48; 民9:14; 民15:15)50All the people of Israel did just as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.51And on that very day the Lord brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts. (出12:17; 出12:41; 徒13:17)