CHAP. XII.
1. The moneth wherein Israel went out of Egypt, is made the first moneth. 3, A commandement to prepare a Lambe for the Passeover. 11, The manner of eating the Passeover. 15, Unlevened bread must be eaten se∣ven daies. 22, The blood of the Lamb must be sprinckled on the doore posts. 29, All the First-borne of Egypt are slaine. 31, The Israelites are driven out of the land. 35. They spoile the Egyptians. 37, They journey to Succoth. 43, The ordinance of the Passeover, and who they are that may eat the same.
AND Iehovah said unto Moses and unto Aaron, in the land of Egypt, [unspec 1] saying: This moneth shall be unto you the head of moneths: it shall be unto [unspec 2] you the first of the moneths of the yeere. Speake yee unto all the congregation of Is∣rael, saying, in the tenth of this moneth, [unspec 3] That they take to them, every man a lambe according to the house of their fathers, a lambe for an house. And if the house be too [unspec 4] little to be for a lambe, then shall he, and his neighbour the next unto his house, take ac∣cording to the number of the soules; euery man according to his eating, yee shall make your count for the lambe. A lambe perfect, a [unspec 5] male of the first yeere, shall it be to you; yee shall take it of the sheepe or of the goates. And it shall be by you kept up, untill the [unspec 6] fourteenth day of this moneth; & the whole Church of the congregation of Israel shall kill it, between the two evenings. And they [unspec 7] shall take of the blood, and give it upon the two side-posts, and upon the upper doore-post, upon the houses wherein they shall eat it. And they shall eat the flesh in that night, [unspec 8] rost with fire, and with unlevened cakes; and with bitter herbs they shall eate it. Yee shall [unspec 9] not eat of it raw, or sodden at all in water, but rost with fire; the head thereof, with the legs thereof, and with the purtenance there∣of. And yee shall not let ought remaine of it [unspec 10] untill the morning: and that which remaineth of it untill the morning, ye shall burne with fire. And thus shall yee eat it. with your [unspec 11] loynes girded, your shooes on your feet, and your staffe in your hand: and ye shall eat it in hast; it is Iehovahs Passeover. And I will passe [unspec 12] through the land of Egypt in this night, and will smite every first-borne in the land of E∣gypt, from man even unto beast: and against all the gods of Egypt will I doe judgements; I Iehovah. And the blood shall bee to you [unspec 13] for a signe upon the houses where you are; and I will see the blood, and will passe over you, and the plague shall not bee upon you to destruction, when I smite the land of E∣gypt. And this day shall bee unto you for a [unspec 14] memoriall, and ye shall festivally keepe it a feast to Iehovah; throughout your generati∣ons shall ye festivally keepe it, by an everla∣sting statute. Seven daies shall ye eat unleve∣ned [unspec 15] cakes, even in the first day ye shall cause the old leven to cease out of your houses: for whosoever eateth levened bread, even that soule shal be cut off from Israel, from the first day untill the seventh day. And in the first [unspec 16] day there shall be unto you a convocation of holinesse, and in the seventh day a convoca∣tion of holinesse: not any worke shall bee done in them; but that which shall be eaten of every soule, that onely shall bee done of you. And ye shall observe the (feast of) unle∣vened [unspec 17] cakes, for in this selfe-same day have I brought forth your armies out of the land of Egypt: and yee shall observe this day throughout your generations, by an everla∣sting statute. In the first (moneth) in the four∣teenth [unspec 18] day of the moneth, at the evening, ye shall eat unlevened cakes, untill the one and twentieth day of the moneth at the evening.