2001 Translation - An American English Bible

1Then Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron there in the land of Egypt, and said, 2‘This will be your first month. It is to be the first one [in your] year. 3So, tell the whole gathering of the children of Israel that on the tenth day of this month, each man should select a lamb for his household (depending on the size of his family). 4And if there are just a few in his house – too few [to eat a whole] lamb – they may go to [the home of] a nearby neighbor. And to figure out how many people that will be, they should each calculate how much lamb they will eat. 5‘So, choose a perfect male yearling lamb from [your herd] of lambs and kids, 6and keep it nearby until the fourteenth day of this month. Then the whole gathering of the children of Israel must slaughter [their lambs] toward the evening. 7And they must gather the blood and put it on the top and both sides of the doorframes of the houses where they will be eating [the lamb]. 8Then that night, they must roast the flesh over a fire and eat it with fermentation-free bread and bitter herbs. 9‘Now, you must not eat it raw or boiled in water, just roasted over a fire with the head, feet, and extremities. 10Nothing should be left over until morning, and you shouldn’t break any of its bones. Any leftovers must be burned in the fire. 11‘And this is how you must eat it: With your thighs covered for work, your sandals on your feet, and your walking sticks in your hands. Then you must eat it quickly, for it is Jehovah’s Passover. 12Because, I will go throughout the land of Egypt that night and strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt (both men and animals), and I will bring My vengeance upon all the gods of Egypt, for I am Jehovah. 13‘Now, this blood will be the sign that you’re in the house, so I will see the blood and protect you. That way, you won’t be a part of the plague of destruction when I strike the land of Egypt. 14‘You must always remember this day and keep it as a feast to Jehovah through all your generations. [Observance of] this feast will be the law through the ages. 15‘Now, you will eat fermentation-free bread for seven days. And starting on the first day, you must remove all fermentation from your homes. And if someone eats fermentation between the first and seventh days, that person must be destroyed in Israel. 16‘The first day will be called holy, and the seventh day will be your holy day. You aren’t to do any hired work then. The only work that you may do will be for the things that you require. 17‘And you must keep this commandment, because this is the day that I will use My great power to bring you out of the land of Egypt, and you will make this day a law through the ages for every generation. 18‘You must eat fermentation-free bread from the evening of the fourteenth-day of the first month, until the evening of the twenty-first day. 19Fermentation must not be found in your homes during those seven days, and whoever eats anything with fermentation [in it] will have his life cut off from the gathering of Israel, and he will be self-condemned in the land. This applies to the native residents of the land, as well as to their neighbors (converts). 20Nobody should eat anything that has fermentation; only fermentation-free bread may be eaten in any of your homes.’ 21Then Moses called all the elders of the children of Israel and told them, ‘Go find yourselves a lamb (according to your family needs) and slaughter the Passover. 22Then [cut] a bunch of hyssop branches and dip them into some of the blood next to the door, and touch it to the upper part and both sides of the door frame… this blood, which is by the door. Then no one should go outside the door of his house until morning, 23for Jehovah will pass over you [as He] strikes the Egyptians… He will see the blood on the doorframes and Jehovah will pass over that door. He won’t allow the destroyer to enter your homes to strike you. 24‘Now, keep this as a Law for yourselves and for your descendants through the age. 25And if you should enter the land that Jehovah promises to give you, you must keep on doing this. 26Then, if your sons should ever ask, Why are we doing this? 27You should tell them, The Passover is a sacrifice to Jehovah, for when He protected the homes of the children of Israel in Egypt and He struck the Egyptians, but [passed over] our homes.’ 28Well, the people bowed to their faces, then the children of Israel went and did exactly as Jehovah had instructed Moses and Aaron.  29It was midnight when Jehovah struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt… from the firstborn of Pharaoh who was sitting on the throne, to the firstborn of the female slave who was sitting in a dungeon, to the firstborn of all the cattle. 30So Pharaoh woke up that night (as did his servants and all the Egyptians) and there was a lot of screaming throughout the entire land of Egypt, for someone had died in every home. 31As the result, Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron that night and told them: ‘Get up and leave us, both you and the children of Israel! Go and serve your God Jehovah as you’ve asked, 32and take your sheep and bulls along with you. But please bless me… I beg you!’ 33Then the Egyptians urged them to leave their land quickly, because they were saying, ‘We’re all going to die!’ 34So the children of Israel took the dough that had no fermentation and wrapped it in cloth, then put it on their shoulders. 35And following Moses’ instructions, they asked the Egyptians for clothing and for items of silver and gold. 36And Jehovah caused the Egyptians to view them favorably, so they [gave these things] to them… they plundered the Egyptians. 37Then the children of Israel left [the city of] Ramses [and traveled] to SocChoth… six hundred thousand men on foot with everything they owned, 38along with a huge number of others who left with them, along with their sheep, bulls, and many cattle. 39Then they baked the dough that they had brought from Egypt into fermentation-free loaves (there was still no fermentation in the dough), because the Egyptians wouldn’t allow them to stay, and they had [virtually] thrown them out; so they didn’t have time to make provisions for their journey. 40Now, although it had been four hundred and thirty years that the children of Israel had stayed in the land of Egypt and in the land of CanaAn, 41the whole army of Jehovah left the land of Egypt that night. 42It was [the night] when they kept watching for Jehovah to bring them out of the land of Egypt, so all the children of Israel throughout all their generations must keep this same night as a night of watch to Jehovah. 43Then Jehovah told Moses and Aaron: ‘This is the Law regarding the Passover: No stranger may eat it, 44and any slave or servant that you buy must be circumcised before he can eat it. 45Visitors and people you hire can’t eat it. 46It must be eaten in one house, because you can’t carry the flesh outside the house… and no bones should be broken. 47The entire gathering of the children of Israel must do this. 48And if a convert comes and wants to keep the Passover to Jehovah, you must circumcise all their males before they can come and offer the sacrifice; and then they will be treated as residents in the land. However, no one who is uncircumcised may eat it. 49So there will be just one Law, and it will apply to both the native residents and to those who come to be converts among you.’ 50Then the children of Israel did exactly as Jehovah had instructed Moses and Aaron. 51And so, that was the day when Jehovah brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt with all their forces.


Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
 1   Exod 12:1 The beginning of the year is changed.
Exod 12:3 The passover is instituted.
Exod 12:11 The import of the rite of the passover.
Exod 12:15 Unleavened bread, etc.
Exod 12:29 The firstborn are slain.
Exod 12:31 The Israelites are driven out of the land.
Exod 12:37 They come to Succoth.
Exod 12:41 The time of their sojourning.
Exod 12:43 The ordinance of the passover.
Exod 12:1

 2   A.M. 2513. B.C. 1491. An. Exod. Isr. 1. Abib or Nisan.
Exod 13:4 Exod 23:15 Exod 34:18 Lev 23:5 Num 28:16 Deut 16:1 Esth 3:7

 3   Speak ye.
Exod 4:30 Exod 6:6 Exod 14:15 Exod 20:19 Lev 1:2
in the tenth.
Exod 12:6 John 12:1 John 12:12
take to.
Gen 4:4 Gen 22:8 1Sam 7:9 John 1:29 John 1:36 1Cor 5:7 Rev 5:6 - Rev 5:13 Rev 7:9 - Rev 7:14 Rev 13:8
lamb. or, kid. The word seh means the young of both sheep and goats, and may be indifferently rendered either lamb or kid. It is evident from ver. 5 Exod 12:5 that the Hebrews might take either; but they generally preferred a lamb, from being of a more gentle nature.
Lev 5:6 Num 15:11 2Chr 35:7
an house. The Israelites were divided into twelve tribes, these tribes into families, the families into houses, and the houses into particular persons.
Num 1:1 - Num 1:54 Josh 7:14

 4   Exod 12:4

 5   be without.
Lev 1:3 Lev 1:10 Lev 22:19 - Lev 22:24 Deut 17:1 Mal 1:7 Mal 1:8 Mal 1:14 Heb 7:26 Heb 9:13 Heb 9:14 1Pet 1:18 1Pet 1:19
a male of the first year. Heb. son of a year.
Lev 23:12 1Sam 13:1
*marg:
Exod 12:5

 6   fourteenth.
Lev 23:5 Num 9:3 Num 28:16 Num 28:18 Deut 16:1 - Deut 16:6 2Chr 30:15 Ezek 45:21
the whole.
2Chr 30:15 - 2Chr 30:18 Isa 53:6 Matt 27:20 Matt 27:25 Mark 15:1 Mark 15:8 Mark 15:11 Mark 15:25 Mark 15:33 Mark 15:34 Luke 23:1 Luke 23:18 Acts 2:23 Acts 3:14 Acts 4:27
in the evening. Heb. between the two evenings. The Jews divided the day into morning and evening: till the sun passed the meridian, all was morning or forenoon; after that, all was evening or afternoon. Their first evening began just after twelve o'clock, and continued till sunset; their second evening began at sunset, and continued till night, i.e., during the whole time of twilight; between twelve o'clock, therefore, and the termination of twilight, the passover was to be offered. See Parallel Passages.
Exod 16:12 Matt 27:46 - Matt 27:50

 7   Exod 12:22 Exod 12:23 Eph 1:7 Heb 9:13 Heb 9:14 Heb 9:22 Heb 10:14 Heb 10:29 Heb 11:28 1Pet 1:2

 8   eat the.
Matt 26:26 John 6:52 - John 6:57
roast.
Deut 16:7 Ps 22:14 Isa 53:10
unleavened.
Exod 13:3 Exod 13:7 Exod 34:25 Num 9:11 Deut 16:3 Amos 4:5 Matt 16:12 1Cor 5:6 - 1Cor 5:8 Gal 5:9
with bitter.
Exod 1:14 Num 9:11 Zech 12:10 1Thess 1:6

 9   but roast with fire.
Exod 12:8 Deut 16:7 Lam 1:13

 10   Exod 23:18 Exod 29:34 Exod 34:25 Lev 7:15 - Lev 7:17 Lev 22:30 Deut 16:4 Deut 16:5

 11   loins.
Matt 26:19 Matt 26:20 Luke 12:35 Eph 6:15 1Pet 1:13
shoes.
Luke 7:38 Luke 15:22 Eph 6:15
it is the.
Exod 12:27 Lev 23:5 Num 28:16 Deut 16:2 - Deut 16:6 1Cor 5:7

 12   pass.
Exod 12:23 Exod 11:4 Exod 11:5 Amos 5:17
will smite.
Exod 12:29 Exod 12:30 Exod 11:4 - Exod 11:6
against.
Num 33:4 1Sam 5:3 1Sam 6:5 1Chr 14:12 Isa 19:1 Jer 43:13 Zeph 2:11
gods. or, princes.
Exod 21:6 Exod 22:28 Ps 82:1 Ps 82:6 John 10:34 John 10:35
I am the Lord.
Exod 6:2 Isa 43:11 - Isa 43:15 Ezek 12:16

 13   the blood.
Exod 12:23 Gen 17:11 Josh 2:12 Heb 11:28
and when.
1Thess 1:10 1John 1:7
to destroy you. Heb. for a destruction.


 14   memorial.
Exod 13:9 Num 16:40 Josh 4:7 Ps 111:4 Ps 135:13 Zech 6:14 Matt 26:13 Luke 22:19 1Cor 11:23 - 1Cor 11:26
a feast.
Exod 5:1 Deut 16:11 Neh 8:9 - Neh 8:12
by an ordinance.
Exod 12:17 Exod 12:24 Exod 12:43 Exod 13:10 Lev 23:4 Lev 23:5 Num 10:8 Num 18:8 Deut 16:1 1Sam 30:25 2Kgs 23:21 Ezek 46:14 1Cor 5:7 1Cor 5:8

 15   Seven.
Exod 12:8 Exod 13:6 Exod 13:7 - Exod 13:10 Exod 23:15 Exod 34:18 Exod 34:25 Lev 23:5 - Lev 23:8 Num 28:17 Deut 16:3 Deut 16:5 Deut 16:8 Matt 16:12 Luke 12:1 Acts 12:3
that soul.
Exod 12:19 Exod 12:20 Exod 31:14 Gen 17:14 Lev 17:10 Lev 17:14 Num 9:13 Mal 2:12 Gal 5:12

 16   first day.
Lev 23:2 Lev 23:3 Lev 23:7 Lev 23:8 Lev 23:21 Lev 23:24 Lev 23:25 Lev 23:27 Lev 23:35 Num 28:18 Num 28:25 Num 29:1 Num 29:12
no manner.
Exod 16:5 Exod 16:23 Exod 16:29 Exod 20:10 Exod 35:2 Exod 35:3 Jer 17:21 Jer 17:22
man Heb. soul.


 17   in this selfsame.
Exod 7:5 Exod 13:8 Num 20:16
an ordinance.
Exod 12:14

 18   Exod 12:1 Exod 12:15 Lev 23:5 Lev 23:6 Num 28:16

 19   Seven.
Exod 23:15 Exod 34:18 Deut 16:3 1Cor 5:7 1Cor 5:8
even that.
Exod 12:15 Num 9:13
whether.
Exod 12:43 Exod 12:48

 20   Exod 12:20

 21   elders.
Exod 3:16 Exod 17:5 Exod 19:7 Num 11:16
and take.
Exod 12:3 Num 9:2 - Num 9:5 Josh 5:10 2Kgs 23:21 2Chr 30:15 - 2Chr 30:17 2Chr 35:5 2Chr 35:6 Ezra 6:20 Matt 26:17 - Matt 26:19 Mark 14:12 - Mark 14:16 Luke 22:7 - Luke 22:13 1Cor 10:4
lamb. or, kid.
Exod 12:3
*marg:
Exod 12:21
the passover. That is, the lamb which was called the paschal, or passover lamb; the animal sacrificed obtaining the name of the institution. St. Paul copies the expression in 1 Co 5:7.


 22   a bunch.
Lev 14:6 Lev 14:7 Num 19:18 Ps 51:7 Heb 9:1 Heb 9:14 Heb 9:19 Heb 11:28 Heb 12:24 1Pet 1:2
hyssop. The word aizov, which has been variously rendered, most probably denotes Hyssop; whence are derived the Chaldee aizova, Syriac zupha, Arabic zupha, Ethiopic azab, and hushopa, Greek [`ussopos, hussopos *G5301*,] Latin hyssopus, German usop, and our hyssop, a name retained, with little variation, in all the western languages. It is a plant of the gymnospermia (naked seeded) order, belonging to the didynamia class. It has bushy stalks, growing a foot and a half high; small spear-shaped, close-sitting, and opposite leaves, with several smaller ones rising from the same joint; and all the stalks and branches terminated by erect whorled spikes of flowers, of different colours in the varieties of the plant. The leaves have an aromatic smell, and a warm, pungent taste. Its detersive, cleansing, and medicinal qualities were probably the reason why it was so particularly recommended in Scripture.
strike.
Exod 12:7
and none.
Matt 26:30

 23   will pass through.
Exod 12:12 Exod 12:13
and will not.
2Sam 24:16 Isa 37:36 Ezek 9:4 Ezek 9:6 1Cor 10:10 Heb 11:28 Heb 12:24 Rev 7:3 Rev 9:4

 24   Exod 12:14 Gen 17:8 - Gen 17:10

 25   when.
Deut 4:5 Deut 12:8 Deut 12:9 Deut 16:5 - Deut 16:9 Josh 5:10 - Josh 5:12 Ps 105:44 Ps 105:45
according.
Exod 3:8 Exod 3:17

 26   your children.
Exod 13:8 Exod 13:9 Exod 13:14 Exod 13:15 Exod 13:22 Deut 6:7 Deut 11:19 Deut 32:7 Josh 4:6 Josh 4:7 Josh 4:21 - Josh 4:24 Ps 78:3 - Ps 78:6 Ps 145:4 Isa 38:19 Eph 6:4

 27   It is the sacrifice.
Exod 12:11 Exod 12:23 Exod 34:25 Deut 16:2 Deut 16:5 1Cor 5:7
bowed.
Exod 4:31 Exod 34:8 1Chr 29:20 2Chr 20:18 2Chr 29:30 Neh 8:6

 28   Heb 11:28

 29   at midnight.
Exod 12:12 Exod 11:4 Exod 13:15 Job 34:20 1Thess 5:2 1Thess 5:3
the Lord smote. The infliction of this judgment on the Egyptians was most equitable; because, after their nation had been preserved by one of the Israelitish family, they had, contrary to all right, and in defiance of original stipulation, enslaved the people to whom they had been so much indebted, had murdered their offspring, and made their bondage intolerable. See Bryant, p. 160.
Num 3:13 Num 8:17 Num 33:4 Ps 78:51 Ps 105:36 Ps 135:8 Ps 136:10 Heb 11:28 Heb 12:23
the first-born of Pharaoh.
Exod 4:23 Exod 11:5
dungeon. Heb. house of the pit.
Isa 24:22 Isa 51:14 Jer 38:6 Jer 38:13 Zech 9:11

 30   and there was a great cry. No people were more remarkable and frantic in their mournings than the Egyptians. When a relative died, every one left the house, and the women, with their hair loose, and their bosoms bare, ran wild about the street. The men also, with their apparel equally disordered, kept them company; all shrieking, howling, and beating themselves. What a scene of horror and distress must now have presented itself, when there was not a family in Egypt where there was not one dead!
Exod 11:6 Pro 21:13 Amos 5:17 Matt 25:6 Jas 2:13

 31   called.
Exod 10:29
Rise up.
Exod 3:19 Exod 3:20 Exod 6:1 Exod 11:1 Exod 11:8 Ps 105:38
the children.
Exod 10:9

 32   your flocks.
Exod 10:26
bless me.
Exod 8:28 Exod 9:28 Gen 27:34 Gen 27:38

 33   urgent.
Exod 11:1 Ps 105:38
We be all.
Gen 20:3 Num 17:12 Num 17:13

 34   kneading troughs. or, dough.
Exod 8:3
Probably like the kneading-troughs of the Arabs; comparatively small wooden bowls, which also serve them for dishes. Their being bound up in their clothes may mean no more than their being wrapped up in their hykes, or long, loose, garments. See Shaw's Travels, p. 224, 4to. edit.


 35   Exod 3:21 Exod 3:22 Exod 11:2 Exod 11:3 Gen 15:14 Ps 105:37

 36   the Lord.
Exod 3:21 Exod 11:3 Gen 39:21 Pro 16:7 Dan 1:9 Acts 2:47 Acts 7:10
they spoiled.
Exod 3:22 Gen 15:14 Ps 105:37

 37   the children.
Num 33:3 Num 33:5
Rameses.
Exod 1:11 Gen 47:11
six hundred.
Exod 38:26 Gen 12:2 Gen 15:5 Gen 46:3 Num 1:46 Num 11:21

 38   And a mixed multitude. Heb. a great mixture.
Num 11:4 Zech 8:23

 39   thrust.
Exod 12:33 Exod 6:1 Exod 11:1

 40   The Samaritan Pentateuch reads, "Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, and of their fathers in the land of Canaan and in the land of Egypt, was 430 years." The Alexandrine copy of the LXX. has the same reading; and the same statement is made by the apostle Paul, in Gal 3:17, who reckons from the promise made to Abraham to the giving of the law. That these three witnesses have the truth, the chronology itself proves; for it is evident that the descendants of Israel did not dwell 430 years in Egypt; while it is equally evident, that the period from Abraham's entry into Canaan to the Exodus, is exactly that number. Thus, from Abraham's entrance into the promised land to the birth of Isaac, was 25 years; Isaac was 60 at the birth of Jacob; Jacob was 130 at his going into Egypt; where he and his children continued 215 years more; making in the whole 430 years. See Kennicott's Dissertation on the Hebrew Text.
sojourning.
Acts 13:17 Heb 11:9
four hundred.
Gen 12:1 - Gen 12:3 Gen 15:13 Acts 7:6 Gal 3:16 Gal 3:17

 41   selfsame.
Ps 102:13 Dan 9:24 Hab 2:3 John 7:8 Acts 1:7
hosts.
Exod 12:51 Exod 7:4 Josh 5:14

 42   a night to be much observed. Heb. a night of observations. observed.
Exod 12:14 Deut 16:1 - Deut 16:6

 43   There shall.
Exod 12:48 Lev 22:10 Num 9:14 Eph 2:12

 44   circumcised.
Gen 17:12 Gen 17:13 Gen 17:23

 45   Lev 22:10 Eph 2:12

 46   one house.
1Cor 12:12 Eph 2:19 - Eph 2:22
neither.
Num 9:12 John 19:33 John 19:36

 47   All the.
Exod 12:3 Exod 12:6 Num 9:13
keep it. Heb. do it.


 48   a stranger.
Exod 12:43 Num 9:14 Num 15:15 Num 15:16
let all.
Gen 17:12 Ezek 44:9 Ezek 47:22
shall be.
Gal 3:28 Col 3:11

 49   Lev 24:22 Num 9:14 Num 15:15 Num 15:16 Num 15:29 Gal 3:28 Col 3:11

 50   as the Lord.
Deut 4:1 Deut 4:2 Deut 12:32 Matt 7:24 Matt 7:25 Matt 28:20 John 2:5 John 13:17 John 15:14 Rev 22:15
by their armies.
Exod 12:41 Exod 6:26 Exod 7:4

 51   Exod 12:51