(21) Moses then summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go, pick out lambs for your families, and slaughter the passover offering...(23) For ה׳, when going through to smite the Egyptians, will see the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts, and ה׳ will pass over the door and not let the Destroyer enter and smite your home.(24) “You shall observe this as an institution for all time, for you and for your descendants.(25) And when you enter the land that ה׳ will give you, as promised, you shall observe this rite.(26) And when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this rite?’(27) you shall say, ‘It is the passover sacrifice to ה׳, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when smiting the Egyptians, but saved our houses.’ Those assembled then bowed low in homage.(28) And the Israelites went and did so; just as ה׳ had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

(29) In the middle of the night ה׳ struck down all the [male] first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh who sat on the throne to the first-born of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the first-born of the cattle.(30) And Pharaoh arose in the night, with all his courtiers and all the Egyptians—because there was a loud cry in Egypt; for there was no house where there was not someone dead.(31) He summoned Moses and Aaron in the night and said, “Up, depart from among my people, you and the Israelites with you! Go, worship ה׳ as you said!(32) Take also your flocks and your herds, as you said, and begone! And may you bring a blessing upon me also!”(33) The Egyptians urged the people on, impatient to have them leave the country, for they said, “We shall all be dead.”

(34) So the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls wrapped in their cloaks upon their shoulders.(35) The Israelites had done Moses’ bidding and borrowed from the Egyptians objects of silver and gold, and clothing.(36) And ה׳ had disposed the Egyptians favorably toward the people, and they let them have their request; thus they stripped the Egyptians.(37) The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand fighting men on foot, aside from noncombatants.(38) Moreover, a mixed multitude went up with them, and very much livestock, both flocks and herds.(39) And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough that they had taken out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, since they had been driven out of Egypt and could not delay; nor had they prepared any provisions for themselves.(40) The length of time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years;(41) at the end of the four hundred and thirtieth year, to the very day, all the ranks of ה׳ departed from the land of Egypt.

(16) In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, there shall be a passover sacrifice to ה׳,(17) and on the fifteenth day of that month a festival. Unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days.(18) The first day shall be a sacred occasion: you shall not work at your occupations.

(2) At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and proceed with a second circumcision of the Israelites.”(3) So Joshua had flint knives made, and the Israelites were circumcised at Givat-ha'aralot.(4) This is the reason why Joshua had the circumcision performed: All the people who had come out of Egypt, all the males of military age, had died during the desert wanderings after leaving Egypt.(5) Now, whereas all the people who came out of Egypt had been circumcised, none of the people born after the exodus, during the desert wanderings, had been circumcised.(6) For the Israelites had traveled in the wilderness forty years, until the entire nation had perished; because they had not obeyed the LORD, and the LORD had sworn never to let them see the land that the LORD had sworn to their fathers to assign to us, a land flowing with milk and honey.(7) But He had raised up their sons in their stead; and it was these that Joshua circumcised.

(10) Encamped at Gilgal, in the steppes of Jericho, the Israelites offered the passover sacrifice on the fourteenth day of the month, toward evening.(11) On the day after the passover offering, on that very day, they ate of the produce of the country, unleavened bread and parched grain.(12) On that same day, when they ate of the produce of the land, the manna ceased. The Israelites got no more manna; that year they ate of the yield of the land of Canaan.

(1) ה׳ spoke to Moses, saying...(4) These are the set times of ה׳, the sacred occasions, which you shall celebrate each at its appointed time:(5) In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, there shall be a passover offering to ה׳,(6) and on the fifteenth day of that month ה׳’s Feast of Unleavened Bread. You shall eat unleavened bread for seven days.(7) On the first day you shall celebrate a sacred occasion: you shall not work at your occupations.(8) Seven days you shall make offerings by fire to ה׳. The seventh day shall be a sacred occasion: you shall not work at your occupations.

(6) Say, therefore, to the Israelite people: I am ה׳. I will free you from the labors of the Egyptians and deliver you from their bondage. I will redeem you with an outstretched arm and through extraordinary chastisements.(7) And I will take you to be My people, and I will be your God. And you shall know that I, ה׳, am your God who freed you from the labors of the Egyptians.