Exodus 12:43-13:5

English Standard Version

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.

Consecration of the Firstborn

13 The Lord said to Moses, ²^(K)“Consecrate to me all the firstborn. Whatever is the first to open the womb among the people of Israel, both of man and of beast, is mine.”

The Feast of Unleavened Bread

³Then Moses said to the people, ^(L)“Remember this day in which you came out from Egypt, out of the house of slavery, ^(M)for by a strong hand the Lord brought you out from this place. ^(N)No leavened bread shall be eaten. ⁴Today, in the month of ^(O)Abib, you are going out. ⁵And when the Lord brings you into ^(P)the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which ^(Q)he swore to your fathers to give you, a land ^(R)flowing with milk and honey, ^(S)you shall keep this service in this month.