Exodus 12:43-51

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Institution of the Passover

⁴³And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it, ⁴⁴but every slave^[a] that is ^(A)bought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him. ⁴⁵^(B)No foreigner or hired worker may eat of it. ⁴⁶It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, and ^(C)you shall not break any of its bones. ⁴⁷^(D)All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. ⁴⁸^(E)If a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he ^(F)shall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. ⁴⁹There shall be ^(G)one law for the native and for the ^(H)stranger who sojourns among you.”

⁵⁰All the people of Israel did just as the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron. ⁵¹And on that very day the ^(I)Lord brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their ^(J)hosts.

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Footnotes

Exodus 12:44 Or servant; the Hebrew term ‘ebed designates a range of social and economic roles (see Preface)

Exodus 13:3-10

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The Feast of Unleavened Bread

³Then Moses said to the people, ^(A)“Remember this day in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery, ^(B)for by a strong hand the Lord brought you out from this place. ^(C)No leavened bread shall be eaten. ⁴Today, in the month of ^(D)Abib, you are going out. ⁵And when the Lord brings you into ^(E)the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which ^(F)he swore to your fathers to give you, a land ^(G)flowing with milk and honey, ^(H)you shall keep this service in this month. ⁶^(I)Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to the Lord. ⁷Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days; no leavened bread shall be seen with you, and no leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory. ⁸^(J)You shall tell your son on that day, ‘It is because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ ⁹And it shall ^(K)be to you as a sign on your hand and as ^(L)a memorial ^(M)between your eyes, that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand the Lord has brought you out of Egypt. ¹⁰^(N)You shall therefore keep this statute at its appointed time from year to year.