1The LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,2This month shall be for you the head of months; it shall be the first of the months of the year for you.3Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: On the tenth of this month they shall take for themselves each man a lamb according to the fathers' house, a lamb per house.4If the house is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of souls; each man according to his eating you shall compute for the lamb.5The lamb shall be unblemished, a male a year old; from the lambs or from the goats you shall take it for yourselves.6It shall be kept for you until the fourteenth day of this month, and all the assembly of the congregation of Israel shall slaughter it between the evenings.7They shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.8They shall eat the flesh on this night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it.9Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted with fire—its head with its legs and with its inward parts.10You shall not leave any of it until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn in the fire.11Thus you shall eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD's Passover.12I will pass through the land of Egypt that night and strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both people and animals, and I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.13The blood shall be for you a sign on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and there shall be no plague of destruction among you when I strike the land of Egypt.14This day shall be for you a memorial, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; as a permanent statute you shall celebrate it.15Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread, that soul shall be cut off from Israel, from the first day until the seventh day.16On the first day there shall be a holy assembly for you, and on the seventh day a holy assembly for you; no work shall be done on them, but what every soul eats, that alone may be done for you.17You shall keep the unleavened bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall keep this day throughout your generations as a permanent statute.18In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day, you shall eat unleavened bread.19For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether sojourner or native of the land.20You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.21Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them: Draw out and take lambs for your families and slaughter the Passover.22You shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and apply it to the lintel and to the two doorposts from the blood that is in the basin; none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning.23The LORD will pass through to strike Egypt, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the entrance and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to strike.24You shall keep this word as a statute for yourself and for your sons forever.25When you come to the land that the LORD will give you, as he spoke, you shall keep this service.26When your sons say to you, 'What does this service mean to you?'27You shall say, 'It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when he struck the Egyptians and rescued our houses.' And the people bowed and worshiped.28The Israelites went and did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.29At midnight the LORD struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock.30Pharaoh arose at night, he and all his servants and all Egypt, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house where there was not one dead.