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And it came to pass that YHVHa spake unto Moses and Zipporah in the land of Egypt, saying: This month shall be unto you the beginning of monthsb; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
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Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying: In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them everyone a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house;
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And if the household be too little for the lamb, let they and their neighbor next unto their house take it according to the number of the souls; everyone according to their needs shall make your count for the lamb:
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And this shall be a lamb without blemish, a male of the first year; thou shall take it out from the sheep or from the goats;
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And thou shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs in the evening,
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And they shall take of the blood and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper doorpost of the houses wherein they shall eat it.
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And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
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Thou shalt not eat of it raw, nor shalt thou cook it with water; but roast the lamb with fire— his head with his legs and with the purtenance thereof.
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And thou shall eat of it, wasting nothing; yea, let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning thou shall burn with fire; I am YHVH, thy Elohim.
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¶ And thus shall thou eat it: with thy loins girded, thy shoes on thy feet, and thy staff in thine hand; and thou shall eat it in haste; for it is the Passover of YHVH.
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For I will pass through the land as a thief in the night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the elohima of thy enemies I will execute judgment; I am YHVH.
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And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the house where thou are;
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And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you when I smitea the land.
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And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and thou shall keep it a feast to me, YHVH thy Elohim, throughout your generations; thou shall keep it a feast by an ordinancea forever; I am YHVH.
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¶ And for Seven days shall thou eat unleavened bread; even the first day thou shall put away leaven out of your houses; for whosoever eateth leavened bread, from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
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And in the first day there shall be a holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation to you;
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No manner of work shall be done in them, save that which everyone must eat, this only may be done of you.
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And thou shall observe the feast of leavened bread; for on this same day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt; therefore shall thou observe this day in your generations by an ordinance forever;
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In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at the evening, thou shall eat unleavened bread until the one and twentieth day of the month in the evening.
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Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses; for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether they be a stranger or born in the land;
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Thou shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread; I am YHVH, thy Elohim.
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¶ And thou shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out at the door of your houses until the morning.
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For I, YHVH, will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when I seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, I will pass over the door and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you;
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And thou shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy children forever.
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¶ And it shall come to pass that when thou shall come into the land which I will give thee, according as I hath promised, that thou, Israel, shall keep this ordinance.
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And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you: What mean ye by this sacramenta?
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And thou shall say unto them: It is the sacrifice of the Passover of YHVH, who passed over the housesa of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses; I am YHVH, thy Elohim.
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¶ This is the ordinance of the Passover; there shall no stranger eat thereof;
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But even thy servants that are bought for money, when thou hast converted them, then shall they eat thereof.
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But those foreign to YHVH, they that know me not, these shall not eat thereof.
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And in one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth aught of the flesh abroad outa of the house; neither shall thou break a bone thereof.
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And all of the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
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And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee and will keep my Passover, let them come near and keep it; and they shall be as one that is born in the land;
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One Toraha shall be to they that are born among you, and one Torah unto the stranger that sojourneth among you; I am YHVH, thy Elohim.