leavened bread from the first day even unto the seventh day, his soul shall be cut off from Israel.

The first day shall be holy, that ye come together: and the seventh day also shall be holy, that ye come together. Ye shall do no work within, save that which pertaineth unto meat for all souls: ye shall do the same only for yourselves.

And keep the unleavened bread: for in the same day I brought forth your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore ye shall keep this day, and all your generations for an everlasting time.

On the fourteenth day of the first month at even ye shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty and first day of the month at even,

That no leavened bread be found in your houses seven days. For whosoever eateth leavened bread, his soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger or a native of the land.

Wherefore eat no leavened bread, but unleavened bread throughout all your dwellings.

And Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them: Read, and take sheep every man for his household, and slay the passover.

And take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood of the laver, and touch the lintel and the two posts with it. And let no man go out at the door of his house until the morning.

For the LORD will go about and afflict the Egyptians. And when he seeth the blood upon the threshold, and upon the two posts, he shall pass over at the door, and shall not suffer the destroyer to come into your houses to afflict you.

Therefore keep this manner for thyself and for thy children for ever.

And when ye are come into the land which the LORD shall give you, as he hath spoken, keep this service.

And when your children shall say unto you, What service have ye?

And ye shall say, It is the passover offering of the LORD, which passed over before the children of Israel in Egypt, when he afflicted the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. Then the people bowed down and stooped.

And the children of Israel went and did as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron.

And at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in prison, and all the firstborn of cattle.

And Pharaoh arose, and all his servants that night, and all the Egyptians: and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house without a dead man within.

And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Arise, go out from among my people, ye and the children of Israel; go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.

Take also with you your flocks and your herds, as ye have said; go ye also, and bless me.

And the Egyptians pressed upon the people, and drove them out of the land with haste: for
they said: We are all of us dead.

And the people took the raw dough, before it was leavened, for their meat, bound in their garments, upon their shoulders.

And the children of Israel had done as Moses had said, and had required of the Egyptians silver and gold vessels and garments.

For this the LORD had given the people grace in the sight of the Egyptians, that they should lend unto them: and they took it from the Egyptians.

So the children of Israel went out from Raemses to Sukhoth, six hundred thousand men on foot without the children.

And there went with them also much common people, and sheep, and oxen, and almost many cattle.

And they baked unleavened cakes of the uncooked dough which they brought out of Egypt: for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt; and they could not forgive, neither had they prepared any meat for them.

And the time that the children of Israel dwelt in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.

And when they were come to an end, all the host of the LORD went out of the land of Egypt in one day.

Therefore this night is kept unto the LORD, because he brought them up out of the land of Egypt: and the children of Israel shall keep it unto the LORD, they and their seed.

And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the manner of keeping the passover: No stranger shall eat thereof.

But he that is a hired servant, let him be circumcised, and then let him eat thereof.

A householder and a hireling shall not eat thereof.

It shall be eaten in one house: ye shall carry none of the flesh thereof out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone in it.

All the congregation of Israel shall do this thing.

And if a stranger sojourn with thee, and keep the passover unto the LORD, let him circumcise all that is male; and let him come near to do it, and be as a native of the land: for no uncircumcised man shall eat thereof.

One law to the native, and to the stranger that sojourneth among you.

And all the children of Israel did as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron.

So the LORD brought forth the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt with their armies in one day.
(Exodus)
Chapter 13
Sanctification of the firstborn. The progress of the exodus.

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying:

Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, which breaketh every mother, among the children of Israel, both of men and of cattle: for they are mine.

And Moses said unto the people, Remember this day, in the which ye came out of Egypt out of the house of bondage, that the LORD brought you forth from hence with a mighty hand: therefore shalt thou not eat leaven.

this day ye went out in the moon of Abib.

Now therefore, when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey within, then thou shalt keep this service in this moon.

Seven days shalt thou eat bread unleavened: and on the seventh day is the feast of the LORD.

Therefore thou shalt eat bread unleavened seven days, that no leaven be seen among thee, nor leavened bread in all thy places.

And ye shall say unto your sons in that day, We keep this thing because of the thing which the LORD did unto us, when we came out of Egypt.

Therefore it shall be a sign in thine hand, and a memorial in thine eyes, that the law of the
LORD may be in thy mouth, that the LORD hath brought thee forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Therefore keep this way in his time yearly.

When therefore the LORD hath brought thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and unto thy fathers, and hath given it thee,

Then shalt thou set apart unto the LORD all that breaketh the mother, and the firstborn of cattle that are male.

The firstborn of the ass shalt thou loose with one sheep: but if thou loose it not, break his neck. But all the firstborn of thy children thou shalt redeem.

And if thy child ask thee to day, or to morrow, What is this? thou shalt say unto him, The LORD hath brought us with a mighty hand out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

For when Pharaoh was hardy to let us go, the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of men unto the firstborn of cattle. Therefore I offer unto the LORD
all the firstborn of the mother that is a male, and the firstborn of my children I redeem.

And this shall be a sign in thine hand, and a memorial in thine eyes, that the LORD hath brought us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand.

Now when Pharaoh had left the people, God did not lead them by the road through the land of the Philistines, which was nearest; for God thought that it would repent the people when they saw the battle, and they would return to Egypt.

Therefore he led the people by the way of the wilderness by the Red sea. And the children of Israel went armed out of the land of Egypt.

And Moses took with him the bones of Joseph. For he had taken an oath from the children of Israel, saying: God shall visit you: bring my bones hence with you.

So they departed from Shukoth, and pitched in Etham, which is before the wilderness.

And the LORD went before them in a pillar of cloud by day to lead them in the way, and in a pillar of fire by night to give them light to go by day and by night.

The pillar of cloud departed not from the people by day, nor the pillar of fire by night.
(Exodus)
Chapter 14
The consummation of the exodus. The Egyptian downfall in the Red Sea.

And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying:

Speak unto the children of Israel, and say, That they turn about, and pitch toward the valley of Hiroth, between Migdol and the sea, toward Baalzephon, and pitch there over against the sea.

For Pharaoh shall say of the children of Israel, They are lost in the land; the wilderness hath determined them.

And I will harden his heart, and he shall cleave unto them: and I will put glory in Pharaoh, and in all his might; and the Egyptians shall know