² “This month is to be for you the first month,^(A) the first month of your year. ³ Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb^[a](B) for his family, one for each household.^{(C) 4} If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, 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. ⁵ The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect,^(D) and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. ⁶ Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month,^(E) when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.^{(F) 7} Then they are to take some of the blood^(G) and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. ⁸ That same night^(H) they are to eat the meat roasted^(I) over the fire, along with bitter herbs,^(J) and bread made without yeast.^{(K) 9} Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs.^{(L) 10} Do not leave any of it till morning;^(M) if some is left till morning, you must burn it. ¹¹ This 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;^(N) it is the Lord’s Passover.^(O)

¹² “On that same night I will pass through^(P) Egypt and strike down^(Q) every firstborn^(R) of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods^(S) of Egypt. I am the Lord.^{(T) 13} The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over^(U) you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.^(V)

¹⁴ “This is a day you are to commemorate;^(W) for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance.^{(X) 15} For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast.^(Y) On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off^(Z) from Israel. ¹⁶ On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work^(AA) 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,^(AB) because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt.^(AC) Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.^{(AD) 18} In the first month^(AE) you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day. ¹⁹ For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner^(AF) or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off^(AG) from the community of Israel. ²⁰ Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live,^(AH) you must eat unleavened bread.”^(AI)

²¹ Then 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^(AJ) lamb. ²² Take a bunch of hyssop,^(AK) dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood^(AL) on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning. ²³ When the Lord goes through the land to strike^(AM) down the Egyptians, he will see the blood^(AN) on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over^(AO) that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer^(AP) to enter your houses and strike you down.

²⁴ “Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance^(AQ) for you and your descendants. ²⁵ When you enter the land^(AR) that the Lord will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony. ²⁶ And when your children^(AS) ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ ²⁷ then tell them, ‘It is the Passover^(AT) sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’”^(AU) Then the people bowed down and worshiped.^(AV)

The Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread^(A)

⁴ “‘These are the Lord’s appointed festivals, the sacred assemblies you are to proclaim at their appointed times:^{(B) 5} The Lord’s Passover^(C) begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.^{(D) 6} On the fifteenth day of that month the Lord’s Festival of Unleavened Bread^(E) begins; for seven days^(F) you must eat bread made without yeast. ⁷ On the first day hold a sacred assembly^(G) and do no regular work. ⁸ For seven days present a food offering to the Lord.^(H) And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.’”

The Passover^(A)

¹⁶ “‘On the fourteenth day of the first month the Lord’s Passover^(B) is to be held. ¹⁷ On the fifteenth day of this month there is to be a festival; for seven days^(C) eat bread made without yeast.^{(D) 18} On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.^{(E) 19} Present to the Lord a food offering^(F) consisting of a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram and seven male lambs a year old, all without defect.^{(G) 20} With each bull offer a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah^(H) of the finest flour mixed with oil; with the ram, two-tenths;^{(I) 21} and with each of the seven lambs, one-tenth.^{(J) 22} Include one male goat as a sin offering^(K) to make atonement for you.^{(L) 23} Offer these in addition to the regular morning burnt offering. ²⁴ In this way present the food offering every day for seven days as an aroma pleasing to the Lord;^(M) it is to be offered in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering. ²⁵ On the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.

The Passover^(A)

16 Observe the month of Aviv^(B) and celebrate the Passover^(C) of the Lord your God, because in the month of Aviv he brought you out of Egypt by night. ² Sacrifice as the Passover to the Lord your God an animal from your flock or herd at the place the Lord will choose as a dwelling for his Name.^{(D) 3} Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction,^(E) because you left Egypt in haste^(F)—so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt.^{(G) 4} Let no yeast be found in your possession in all your land for seven days. Do not let any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening^(H) of the first day remain until morning.^(I)

⁵ You must not sacrifice the Passover in any town the Lord your God gives you ⁶ except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary^[a](J) of your departure from Egypt. ⁷ Roast^(K) it and eat it at the place the Lord your God will choose. Then in the morning return to your tents. ⁸ For six days eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day hold an assembly^(L) to the Lord your God and do no work.^(M)