PASSOVER OF THE LORD, THE EXODUS FROM EGYPT, DIVISION OF THE RED SEA & JOURNEY TO MOUNT SINAI: according to the Bible
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PASSOVER OF THE LORD
Exo 12:1 The LORD said
to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
Exo 12:2 "This month shall
be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the
year for you.
Exo 12:3 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on
the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb according to
their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household.
Exo 12:4 And if the
household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor
shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each
can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
Exo 12:5 Your lamb
shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the
sheep or from the goats,
Exo 12:6 and you shall keep it until the
fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the
congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.
Exo 12:7
"Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts
and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
Exo 12:8 They
shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with unleavened
bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.
Exo 12:9 Do not eat any
of it raw or boiled in water, but roasted, its head with its legs and
its inner parts.
Exo 12:10 And you shall let none of it remain
until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall
burn.
Exo 12:11 In this manner you shall eat it: with your belt
fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And
you shall eat it in haste. It is the LORD's Passover.
Exo 12:12 For
I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all
the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the
gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD.
Exo 12:13
The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when
I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to
destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.
Exo 12:14 "This day
shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the
LORD; throughout your generations, as a statute forever, you shall keep
it as a feast.
Exo 12:15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened
bread. On the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for
if anyone eats what is leavened, from the first day until the seventh
day, that person shall be cut off from Israel.
Exo 12:16 On the
first day you shall hold a holy assembly, and on the seventh day a holy
assembly. No work shall be done on those days. But what everyone needs
to eat, that alone may be prepared by you.
Exo 12:17 And you shall
observe the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought
your hosts out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe this
day, throughout your generations, as a statute forever.
Exo 12:18
In the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you
shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at
evening.
Exo 12:19 For seven days no leaven is to be found in your
houses. If anyone eats what is leavened, that person will be cut off
from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a sojourner or a native
of the land.
Exo 12:20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your
dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread."
Exo 12:21 Then
Moses called all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go and select
lambs for yourselves according to your clans, and kill the Passover
lamb.
Exo 12:22 Take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood that
is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts with the
blood that is in the basin. None of you shall go out of the door of his
house until the morning.
Exo 12:23 For the LORD will pass through
to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on
the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and will not allow
the destroyer to enter your houses to strike you.
Exo 12:24 You
shall observe this rite as a statute for you and for your sons forever.
Exo
12:25 And when you come to the land that the LORD will give you, as he
has promised, you shall keep this service.
Exo 12:26 And when your
children say to you, 'What do you mean by this service?'
Exo 12:27
you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of the LORD's Passover, for he
passed over the houses of the people of Israel in Egypt, when he struck
the Egyptians but spared our houses.'" And the people bowed their heads
and worshiped.
Exo 12:28 Then the people of Israel went and did so;
as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
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EXODUS FROM EGYPT & JOURNEY TO MOUNT SINAI
Exo 12:34 So the people
took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being
bound up in their cloaks on their shoulders.
Exo 12:35 The people
of Israel had also done as Moses told them, for they had asked the
Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing.
Exo 12:36
And the LORD had given the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians,
so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they plundered the
Egyptians.
Exo 12:37 And the people of Israel journeyed from
Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides
women and children.
Exo 12:38 A mixed multitude also went up with
them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds.
Exo 12:39 And
they baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they had brought out of
Egypt, for it was not leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt
and could not wait, nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves.
Exo 12:40 The time that the people of Israel lived in Egypt was
430 years.
Exo 12:41 At the end of 430 years, on that very day, all
the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
Exo 12:42
It was a night of watching by the LORD, to bring them out of the land of
Egypt; so this same night is a night of watching kept to the LORD by
all the people of Israel throughout their generations.
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RED SEA DIVIDED AND ISRAELITES PASS THROUGH ON DRY LAND
pillar of cloud by day and the pillar of fire by night
Exo
13:17 When Pharaoh let the people go, God did not lead them by way of
the land of the Philistines, although that was near. For God said, "Lest
the people change their minds when they see war and return to Egypt."
Exo
13:18 But God led the people around by the way of the wilderness
toward the Red Sea. And the people of Israel went up out of the land of
Egypt equipped for battle.
Exo 13:19 Moses took the bones of Joseph
with him, for Joseph had made the sons of Israel solemnly swear,
saying, "God will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones with
you from here."
Exo 13:20 And they moved on from Succoth and
encamped at Etham, on the edge of the wilderness.
Exo 13:21 And the
LORD went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead them along
the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they
might travel by day and by night.
Exo 13:22 The pillar of cloud by
day and the pillar of fire by night did not depart from before the
people.
the Red Sea divided and the Israelites pass
on dry ground
Exo 14:13 And Moses said to the
people, "Fear not, stand firm, and see the salvation of the LORD, which
he will work for you today. For the Egyptians whom you see today, you
shall never see again.
Exo 14:14 The LORD will fight for you, and
you have only to be silent."
Exo 14:15 The LORD said to Moses, "Why
do you cry to me? Tell the people of Israel to go forward.
Exo
14:16 Lift up your staff, and stretch out your hand over the sea and
divide it, that the people of Israel may go through the sea on dry
ground.
Exo 14:17 And I will harden the hearts of the Egyptians so
that they shall go in after them, and I will get glory over Pharaoh and
all his host, his chariots, and his horsemen.
Exo 14:18 And the
Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten glory over
Pharaoh, his chariots, and his horsemen."
Exo 14:19 Then the angel
of God who was going before the host of Israel moved and went behind
them, and the pillar of cloud moved from before them and stood behind
them,
Exo 14:20 coming between the host of Egypt and the host of
Israel. And there was the cloud and the darkness. And it lit up the
night without one coming near the other all night.
Exo 14:21 Then
Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the LORD drove the sea
back by a strong east wind all night and made the sea dry land, and the
waters were divided.
Exo 14:22 And the people of Israel went into
the midst of the sea on dry ground, the waters being a wall to them on
their right hand and on their left.
Exo 14:23 The Egyptians pursued
and went in after them into the midst of the sea, all Pharaoh's horses,
his chariots, and his horsemen.
Exo 14:24 And in the morning watch
the LORD in the pillar of fire and of cloud looked down on the Egyptian
forces and threw the Egyptian forces into a panic,
Exo 14:25
clogging their chariot wheels so that they drove heavily. And the
Egyptians said, "Let us flee from before Israel, for the LORD fights for
them against the Egyptians."
Exo 14:26 Then the LORD said to
Moses, "Stretch out your hand over the sea, that the water may come back
upon the Egyptians, upon their chariots, and upon their horsemen."
Exo
14:27 So Moses stretched out his hand over the sea, and the sea
returned to its normal course when the morning appeared. And as the
Egyptians fled into it, the LORD threw the Egyptians into the midst of
the sea.
Exo 14:28 The waters returned and covered the chariots and
the horsemen; of all the host of Pharaoh that had followed them into
the sea, not one of them remained.
Exo 14:29 But the people of
Israel walked on dry ground through the sea, the waters being a wall to
them on their right hand and on their left.
Exo 14:30 Thus the LORD
saved Israel that day from the hand of the Egyptians, and Israel saw
the Egyptians dead on the seashore.
Exo 14:31 Israel saw the great
power that the LORD used against the Egyptians, so the people feared the
LORD, and they believed in the LORD and in his servant Moses.
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