逾越节
1耶和华在埃及对摩西和亚伦说： 2“从现在开始，你们要以这个月为一月，为一年之首。 3你要向以色列全体会众宣布，本月的第十日，每家都要预备一只羊羔，一家一只。 4倘若家人太少，吃不了一只，可以跟最近的邻居共享一只，你们要按人数和各人的食量预备羊羔。 5羊羔必须是毫无残疾、一岁的公绵羊或公山羊。 6全体会众要把羊留到本月十四日，在黄昏时分宰杀， 7然后取点血涂在房子的门框和门楣上，全家要在房子里吃羊肉。 8当晚，你们要用火把羊肉烤熟，与无酵饼和苦菜一起吃。 9不可吃生羊肉，也不可煮着吃，要把整只羊，连头带腿和内脏一并烤着吃。 10不可把肉留到早晨，留到早晨的肉要烧掉。 11你们吃的时候，要束腰、穿鞋、手中拿杖，要赶快吃，这是耶和华的逾越节。
12“因为那一夜我要巡遍埃及，把境内所有长子和头生的牲畜全都杀掉，也要严惩埃及所有的神明。我是耶和华。 13涂在你们房屋上的血是一个记号，我见到这血就会越过你们。我击打埃及的时候，那灾祸不会落到你们身上。 14你们要记住这一天，守为耶和华的节期，作为世世代代永远的定例。
除酵节
15“七天之内你们都要吃无酵饼。第一天，要清除家中所有的酵。任何人若在这七天当中吃有酵的饼，要将他从以色列人中铲除。 16在节期的第一天和第七天，你们都要招聚百姓举行圣会。这两天所有人都不得工作，除了预备各人要吃的以外，不可做任何工。 17你们要守这无酵节，因为我在这天把你们大队人马从埃及领了出来。你们要守这节期，作为世世代代永远的定例。 18从一月十四日晚上开始，直到二十一日晚上，你们都要吃无酵饼。 19在这七天内，你们屋里不能有酵。任何人若吃了有酵的东西，不论他是寄居者还是本地人，要将他从以色列会众中铲除。 20无论你们住在哪里都要吃无酵饼，不能吃有酵的食物。”
21于是，摩西召集以色列的众长老，对他们说：“你们家家户户都要挑选羊羔，把这逾越节的羊羔宰了。 22拿一把牛膝草蘸盆里的血，把血涂在门框和门楣上。天亮前，你们不可踏出门外。 23因为耶和华要巡行各地，击杀埃及人，祂看见你们的门框和门楣上有血，就必越过你们的家门，不让灭命者进你们家杀人。 24这是你们世世代代都要遵守的定例。 25你们进入耶和华应许给你们的地方以后，要守这逾越节。 26你们的儿女问你们守这节期的意义时， 27你们就说，‘这是献给耶和华逾越节的祭，因为我们从前在埃及时，祂击杀埃及人，却越过以色列人所住的房子，救了我们各家。’”百姓听了摩西这番话，都低头下拜。 28耶和华怎么吩咐摩西和亚伦，以色列人就照样遵行。
29到了半夜，耶和华把所有埃及人的长子都杀了，包括坐王位的法老的长子、牢中囚犯的长子和一切头生的牲畜。 30晚上，法老及其臣仆和所有埃及人都惊醒了，到处都是哭号声，因为没有一家不死人的。 31法老连夜召见摩西和亚伦，对他们说：“你们和以色列人走吧，离开我的人民。就照你们的要求，去事奉耶和华吧！ 32照你们的要求，把所有的牛羊都带走吧！也要为我祝福。” 33埃及人催促以色列人赶快离开埃及，因为他们说：“我们都要死了。” 34于是，以色列百姓就把没有酵的面团放在揉面盆里，用衣服包起来扛在肩上， 35又遵照摩西的吩咐向埃及人索取金器、银器和衣服。 36耶和华使埃及人恩待以色列人，他们要什么，埃及人就给什么。这样，以色列人夺取了埃及人的财富。
37以色列百姓从埃及的兰塞启行，前往疏割，妇女孩童不算在内，单是步行的男子就有六十万， 38同行的还有许多外族人和大群的牛羊。 39他们用从埃及带出来的面团烤成无酵饼，面团没有酵，因为他们被催促离开埃及，没有时间准备食物。 40以色列人在埃及共住了四百三十年， 41正好满了四百三十年的那一天，耶和华带领以色列大队人马离开了埃及。 42那天晚上是耶和华把祂的子民带出埃及之夜，因此以后世世代代的以色列人都要在那日守夜，以尊崇耶和华。
43耶和华对摩西和亚伦说：“以下是逾越节的条例。
“所有外族人都不可吃逾越节的羊羔， 44但那些买来的奴隶若接受了割礼，就可以吃。 45寄居的外族人和雇用的工人不可吃。 46你们吃的时候，应当在房子里吃，不得把肉带到外面去，也不可折断羊羔的一根骨头。 47以色列全体会众都要守这节期。 48跟你们住在一起的外族人如果想为耶和华守逾越节，他全家的男子都必须接受割礼，这样才可以像以色列人一样守逾越节，但没有接受割礼的人绝不可吃逾越节的羊羔。 49本地人和在你们中间寄居的外族人都要遵守这规矩。”
50耶和华怎样吩咐摩西和亚伦，以色列百姓都遵命而行。 51就在那一天，耶和华带领以色列大队人马离开了埃及。
The Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread
1The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt, 2‘This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year. 3Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb12:3 The Hebrew word can mean lamb or kid; also in verse 4. for his family, one for each household. 4If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbour, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. 5The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. 6Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight. 7Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the door-frames of the houses where they eat the lambs. 8That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast. 9Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire – with the head, legs and internal organs. 10Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it. 11This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s Passover.
12‘On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord. 13The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.
14‘This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord – a lasting ordinance. 15For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day until the seventh must be cut off from Israel. 16On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.
17‘Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come. 18In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day. 19For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel. 20Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread.’
21Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, ‘Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb. 22Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the door-frame. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning. 23When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the door-frame and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
24‘Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants. 25When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony. 26And when your children ask you, “What does this ceremony mean to you?” 27then tell them, “It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.” ’ Then the people bowed down and worshipped. 28The Israelites did just what the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.
29At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well. 30Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.
The exodus
31During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, ‘Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the Lord as you have requested. 32Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me.’
33The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country. ‘For otherwise,’ they said, ‘we will all die!’ 34So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs wrapped in clothing. 35The Israelites did as Moses instructed and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing. 36The Lord had made the Egyptians favourably disposed towards the people, and they gave them what they asked for; so they plundered the Egyptians.
37The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Sukkoth. There were about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. 38Many other people went up with them, and also large droves of livestock, both flocks and herds. 39With the dough the Israelites had brought from Egypt, they baked loaves of unleavened bread. The dough was without yeast because they had been driven out of Egypt and did not have time to prepare food for themselves.
40Now the length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt12:40 Masoretic Text; Samaritan Pentateuch and Septuagint Egypt and Canaan was 430 years. 41At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the Lord’s divisions left Egypt. 42Because the Lord kept vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honour the Lord for the generations to come.
Passover restrictions
43The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ‘These are the regulations for the Passover meal:
‘No foreigner may eat it. 44Any slave you have bought may eat it after you have circumcised him, 45but a temporary resident or a hired worker may not eat it.
46‘It must be eaten inside the house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones. 47The whole community of Israel must celebrate it.
48‘A foreigner residing among you who wants to celebrate the Lord’s Passover must have all the males in his household circumcised; then he may take part like one born in the land. No uncircumcised male may eat it. 49The same law applies both to the native-born and to the foreigner residing among you.’
50All the Israelites did just what the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron. 51And on that very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of Egypt by their divisions.
