The Holy Bible Exodus 12.1-27 by Robert Alter- The Five Books of Moses Lyrics
1 And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2 "This month is for you head of months, it is the first for you of the months of the year.
3 Speak to all the community of Israel, saying: 'On the tenth of this month, let every man take a lamb for a father's house, a lamb for a household.
4 And should a household be too small to have a lamb, it must take together with its neighbor who is close to its house, in proportion to the other persons, each man according to what he eats shall take his portion of the lamb.
5 An unblemished lamb, a yearling male you shall have, from the sheep or from the goats you may take it.
6 And it shall be a thing to be kept by you until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole congregation of the community of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight.
7 And they shall take from the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they will eat it.
8 And they shall eat the meat on this night fire-roasted, with flatbread on bitter herbs shall they eat it.
9 Do not eat from it raw, nor in any way cooked in water, but fire-roasted, it's head with its shanks and with its entrails.
10 And you shall leave nothing from it by morning, and what is left of it by morning in fire you shall burn.
11 And thus shall you eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, your staff in your hand, and you shall eat it in haste. It is a Passover offering to the Lord.
12 And I will cross through the land of Egypt on this night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt from man to beast, and from all the gods of Egypt I will exact retributions. I am the Lord.
13 And the blood will be a sign for you upon the houses in which you are, and I will see the blood and I will pass over you and no scourge shall become a Destroyer amongst you when I strike in the land of Egypt.
14 "'And this day shall be a remembrance for you, and you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord through your generations, an everlasting statue you shall celebrate it.
15 Seven days shall you eat flatbread. the very first day you shall expunge leaven from your houses, for whosoever eats leavened bread, that person shall be cut off from Israel, from the first day to the seventh day.
16 And on the first day a sacred convocation and on the seventh day a sacred convocation you shall have, no task shall be done on them, only what each person is to eat, that alone will be prepared for you.
17 And you shall observe the Flatbread, for on this very day I brought out their battalions from the land of Egypt, and you shall observe this day through your generations, an everlasting statute.
18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, you shall eat flatbread, until the twenty-first day in the evening.
19 Seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, for whosoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the community of Israel, sojourner, and native of the land alike.
20 Nothing that is leavened shall you eat, in all your dwelling places you shall eat flatbread.'"
21 And Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Draw out and take yourselves sheep according to your clans and slaughter the Passover offering.
22 And you shall take a bundle of hyssop and you shall dip it in the blood that is in the basin and you shall touch the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts, and as for you, none of you shall go out from the entrance of his house till morning.
23 And the Lord shall cross through to scourge Egypt,j and He shall see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and the Lord shall pass over the entrance, and He shall not allow the Destroyer to come into your houses to scourge.
24 And you shall keep this thing as a statue for you and your sons, everlasting.
25 And so when you come to the land that the Lord will give you as He has spoken, you shall keep this service.
26 And so should your sons ask you, 'What is this service to you?', you shall say, ' A Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he scourged Egypt and our households He rescued.'"
2 "This month is for you head of months, it is the first for you of the months of the year.
3 Speak to all the community of Israel, saying: 'On the tenth of this month, let every man take a lamb for a father's house, a lamb for a household.
4 And should a household be too small to have a lamb, it must take together with its neighbor who is close to its house, in proportion to the other persons, each man according to what he eats shall take his portion of the lamb.
5 An unblemished lamb, a yearling male you shall have, from the sheep or from the goats you may take it.
6 And it shall be a thing to be kept by you until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole congregation of the community of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight.
7 And they shall take from the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they will eat it.
8 And they shall eat the meat on this night fire-roasted, with flatbread on bitter herbs shall they eat it.
9 Do not eat from it raw, nor in any way cooked in water, but fire-roasted, it's head with its shanks and with its entrails.
10 And you shall leave nothing from it by morning, and what is left of it by morning in fire you shall burn.
11 And thus shall you eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, your staff in your hand, and you shall eat it in haste. It is a Passover offering to the Lord.
12 And I will cross through the land of Egypt on this night, and I will strike down every firstborn in the land of Egypt from man to beast, and from all the gods of Egypt I will exact retributions. I am the Lord.
13 And the blood will be a sign for you upon the houses in which you are, and I will see the blood and I will pass over you and no scourge shall become a Destroyer amongst you when I strike in the land of Egypt.
14 "'And this day shall be a remembrance for you, and you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord through your generations, an everlasting statue you shall celebrate it.
15 Seven days shall you eat flatbread. the very first day you shall expunge leaven from your houses, for whosoever eats leavened bread, that person shall be cut off from Israel, from the first day to the seventh day.
16 And on the first day a sacred convocation and on the seventh day a sacred convocation you shall have, no task shall be done on them, only what each person is to eat, that alone will be prepared for you.
17 And you shall observe the Flatbread, for on this very day I brought out their battalions from the land of Egypt, and you shall observe this day through your generations, an everlasting statute.
18 In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, you shall eat flatbread, until the twenty-first day in the evening.
19 Seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, for whosoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the community of Israel, sojourner, and native of the land alike.
20 Nothing that is leavened shall you eat, in all your dwelling places you shall eat flatbread.'"
21 And Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Draw out and take yourselves sheep according to your clans and slaughter the Passover offering.
22 And you shall take a bundle of hyssop and you shall dip it in the blood that is in the basin and you shall touch the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts, and as for you, none of you shall go out from the entrance of his house till morning.
23 And the Lord shall cross through to scourge Egypt,j and He shall see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and the Lord shall pass over the entrance, and He shall not allow the Destroyer to come into your houses to scourge.
24 And you shall keep this thing as a statue for you and your sons, everlasting.
25 And so when you come to the land that the Lord will give you as He has spoken, you shall keep this service.
26 And so should your sons ask you, 'What is this service to you?', you shall say, ' A Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he scourged Egypt and our households He rescued.'"