Verse 3
Exodus 12:3
World English Bible, British Edition
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Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of
this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a
household;
Original Language Text
hebrew
דַּבְּר֗וּ אֶֽל כָּל עֲדַ֤ת יִשְׂרָאֵל֙ לֵ/אמֹ֔ר בֶּ/עָשֹׂ֖ר לַ/חֹ֣דֶשׁ הַ/זֶּ֑ה וְ/יִקְח֣וּ לָ/הֶ֗ם אִ֛ישׁ שֶׂ֥ה לְ/בֵית אָבֹ֖ת שֶׂ֥ה לַ/בָּֽיִת
English Translation
Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth day of this month, let each man take a lamb for his father's house, a lamb for the house.'
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Chapter 12 Context
1
The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
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“This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the
first month of the year to you.
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Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of
this month, they shall take to...
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and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbour
next to his house shall tak...
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Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take
it from the sheep or from the g...
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You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the
whole assembly of the congrega...
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7
They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two door posts and
on the lintel, on the houses...
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8
They shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, with unleavened
bread. They shall eat it w...
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9
Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire;
with its head, its legs and i...
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10
You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which
remains of it until the morning...
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This is how you shall eat it: with your belt on your waist, your sandals
on your feet, and your staf...
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12
For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike
all the firstborn in the land...
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13
The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are.
When I see the blood, I will pass...
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14
This day shall be a memorial for you. You shall keep it as a feast
to the LORD. You shall keep it as...
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15
“‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first
day you shall put away yeast out of your...
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16
In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the
seventh day a holy convocation...
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17
You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day
I have brought your armies out...
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18
In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening,
you shall eat unleavened bread, u...
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19
There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever
eats that which is leavened...
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You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat
unleavened bread.’”
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21
Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to
them, “Draw out, and take lambs accordin...
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22
You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in
the basin, and strike the linte...
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For the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he
sees the blood on the lintel, an...
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24
You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons
forever.
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25
It shall happen when you have come to the land which the LORD will
give you, as he has promised, tha...
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It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this
service?’
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that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the LORD’s Passover, who
passed over the houses of the c...
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28
The children of Israel went and did so; as the LORD had commanded Moses
and Aaron, so they did.
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At midnight, the LORD struck all the firstborn in the land of
Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh w...
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30
Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the
Egyptians; and there was a great...
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31
He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, get out
from amongst my people, both you...
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32
Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone;
and bless me also!”
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33
The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out
of the land in haste, for they said, “We...
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34
The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading
troughs being bound up in their c...
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35
The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they
asked of the Egyptians jewels of...
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The LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that
they let them have what they...
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37
The children of Israel travelled from Rameses to Succoth, about
six hundred thousand on foot who wer...
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38
A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even
very much livestock.
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They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of
Egypt; for it wasn’t leavened, be...
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40
Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty
years.
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41
At the end of four hundred and thirty years, to the day, all of the
LORD’s armies went out from the...
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42
It is a night to be much observed to the LORD for bringing them out
from the land of Egypt. This is...
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43
The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of
the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of...
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but every man’s servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised
him, then shall he eat of...
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A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.
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It must be eaten in one house. You shall not carry any of the meat
outside of the house. Do not brea...
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All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
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48
When a stranger lives as a foreigner with you, and would like to keep
the Passover to the LORD, let...
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One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who
lives as a foreigner amongst yo...
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50
All the children of Israel did so. As the LORD commanded Moses and
Aaron, so they did.
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51
That same day, the LORD brought the children of Israel out of the land
of Egypt by their armies.
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