English Bible Presentation Sharing - Exodus Book, chapter 12, verse 29 in Hcsb Version

Exodus 12 : 1 (HCSB)

The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:

Exodus 12 : 2 (HCSB)

"This month is to be the beginning of months for you; it is the first month of your year.

Exodus 12 : 3 (HCSB)

Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month they must each select an animal of the flock according to *their fathers' households, one animal per household.

Exodus 12 : 4 (HCSB)

If the household is too small for a *whole animal, that person and the neighbor nearest his house are to select one based on the combined number of people; you should apportion the animal according to what each person will eat.

Exodus 12 : 5 (HCSB)

You must have an unblemished animal, a year-old male; you may take it from either the sheep or the goats.

Exodus 12 : 6 (HCSB)

You are to keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.

Exodus 12 : 7 (HCSB)

They must take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat them.

Exodus 12 : 8 (HCSB)

They are to eat the meat that night; they should eat it, roasted over the fire along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

Exodus 12 : 9 (HCSB)

Do not eat any of it raw or cooked in boiling water, but only roasted over fire-- its head as well as its legs and inner organs.

Exodus 12 : 10 (HCSB)

Do not let any of it remain until morning; you must burn up any part of it that does remain until morning.

Exodus 12 : 11 (HCSB)

Here is how you must eat it: dressed for travel, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You are to eat it in a hurry; it is the LORD's Passover.

Exodus 12 : 12 (HCSB)

"I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night and strike every firstborn *male in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. I am the LORD; I will execute judgments against all the gods of Egypt.

Exodus 12 : 13 (HCSB)

The blood on the houses where you are staying will be a distinguishing mark for you; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will be among you to destroy *you when I strike the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12 : 14 (HCSB)

"This day is to be a memorial for you, and you must celebrate it as a festival to the LORD. You are to celebrate it throughout your generations as a permanent statute.

Exodus 12 : 15 (HCSB)

You must eat unleavened bread for seven days. On the first day you must remove yeast from your houses. Whoever eats what is leavened from the first day through the seventh day must be cut off from Israel.

Exodus 12 : 16 (HCSB)

You are to hold a sacred assembly on the first day and another sacred assembly on the seventh day. No work may be done on those *days except for preparing what people need to eat-- you may do only that.

Exodus 12 : 17 (HCSB)

"You are to observe the *Festival of Unleavened Bread because on this very day I brought your ranks out of the land of Egypt. You must observe this day throughout your generations as a permanent statute.

Exodus 12 : 18 (HCSB)

You are to eat unleavened bread in the first *month , from the evening of the fourteenth day of the month until the evening of the twenty-first day.

Exodus 12 : 19 (HCSB)

Yeast must not be found in your houses for seven days. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreign resident or native of the land, must be cut off from the community of Israel.

Exodus 12 : 20 (HCSB)

Do not eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes."

Exodus 12 : 21 (HCSB)

Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go, select an animal from the flock according to your families, and slaughter the Passover lamb.

Exodus 12 : 22 (HCSB)

Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and brush the lintel and the two doorposts with some of the blood in the basin. None of you may go out the door of his house until morning.

Exodus 12 : 23 (HCSB)

When the LORD passes through to strike Egypt and sees the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts, He will pass over the door and not let the destroyer enter your houses to strike *you .

Exodus 12 : 24 (HCSB)

"Keep this command permanently as a statute for you and your descendants.

Exodus 12 : 25 (HCSB)

When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as He promised, you are to observe this ritual.

Exodus 12 : 26 (HCSB)

When your children ask you, 'What does this ritual mean to you?'

Exodus 12 : 27 (HCSB)

you are to reply, 'It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, for He passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and spared our homes.' " So the people bowed down and worshiped.

Exodus 12 : 28 (HCSB)

Then the Israelites went and did *this ; they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.

Exodus 12 : 29 (HCSB)

Now at midnight the LORD struck every firstborn *male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon, and every firstborn of the livestock.

Exodus 12 : 30 (HCSB)

During the night Pharaoh got up, he along with all his officials and all the Egyptians, and there was a loud wailing throughout Egypt because there wasn't a house without someone dead.

Exodus 12 : 31 (HCSB)

He summoned Moses and Aaron during the night and said, "Get up, leave my people, both you and the Israelites, and go, worship the LORD as you have asked.

Exodus 12 : 32 (HCSB)

Take even your flocks and your herds as you asked, and leave, and this will also be a blessing to me."

Exodus 12 : 33 (HCSB)

Now the Egyptians pressured the people in order to send them quickly out of the country, for they said, "We're all going to die!"

Exodus 12 : 34 (HCSB)

So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls wrapped up in their clothes on their shoulders.

Exodus 12 : 35 (HCSB)

The Israelites acted on Moses' word and asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing.

Exodus 12 : 36 (HCSB)

And the LORD gave the people such favor in the Egyptians' sight that they gave them what they requested. In this way they plundered the Egyptians.

Exodus 12 : 37 (HCSB)

The Israelites traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about 600,000 soldiers on foot, besides their families.

Exodus 12 : 38 (HCSB)

An ethnically diverse crowd also went up with them, along with a huge number of livestock, both flocks and herds.

Exodus 12 : 39 (HCSB)

The people baked the dough they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves, since it had no yeast; for when they had been driven out of Egypt they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves.

Exodus 12 : 40 (HCSB)

The time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.

Exodus 12 : 41 (HCSB)

At the end of 430 years, on that same day, all the divisions of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.

Exodus 12 : 42 (HCSB)

It was a night of vigil in honor of the LORD, because He would bring them out of the land of Egypt. This same night is in honor of the LORD, a night vigil for all the Israelites throughout their generations.

Exodus 12 : 43 (HCSB)

The LORD said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner may eat it.

Exodus 12 : 44 (HCSB)

But any slave a man has purchased may eat it, after you have circumcised him.

Exodus 12 : 45 (HCSB)

A temporary resident or hired hand may not eat the Passover.

Exodus 12 : 46 (HCSB)

It is to be eaten in one house. You may not take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of its bones.

Exodus 12 : 47 (HCSB)

The whole community of Israel must celebrate it.

Exodus 12 : 48 (HCSB)

If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD's Passover, every male in his household must be circumcised, and then he may participate; he will become like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person may eat it.

Exodus 12 : 49 (HCSB)

The same law will apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you."

Exodus 12 : 50 (HCSB)

Then all the Israelites did *this ; they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.

Exodus 12 : 51 (HCSB)

On that same day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt according to their military divisions.