Verse 21
Exodus 12:21
World English Bible
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Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.
Original Language Text
hebrew
וַ/יִּקְרָ֥א מֹשֶׁ֛ה לְ/כָל זִקְנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל וַ/יֹּ֣אמֶר אֲלֵ/הֶ֑ם מִֽשְׁכ֗וּ וּ/קְח֨וּ לָ/כֶ֥ם צֹ֛אן לְ/מִשְׁפְּחֹתֵי/כֶ֖ם וְ/שַׁחֲט֥וּ הַ/פָּֽסַח
English Translation
And Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go and take for yourselves lambs according to your families and slaughter the Passover."
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Chapter 12 Context
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Yahweh 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 neighbor next to his house shall take...
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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...
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and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the cong...
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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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They shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it wi...
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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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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 shoes on your feet, and your staff...
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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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The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will...
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This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your ge...
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“‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your...
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In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation...
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You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day I have brought your armies out...
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In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, u...
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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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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 Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and...
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You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.
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It shall happen when you have come to the land which Yahweh will give you, according as he has promi...
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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 Yahweh’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the chi...
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The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
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At midnight, Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who...
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Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great...
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He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you a...
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Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!”
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The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, “We...
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The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their c...
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The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of...
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Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they ask...
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The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were...
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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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Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.
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At the end of four hundred thirty years, to the day, all of Yahweh’s armies went out from the land o...
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It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is th...
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Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat of it...
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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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When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all hi...
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One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you....
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All the children of Israel did so. As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
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That same day, Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.
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