Exodus 11:2   (Read all of Exodus 11)

Tell the people that men and women alike are to ask their neighbors for articles of silver and gold."

Exodus 11:4   (Read all of Exodus 11)

So Moses said, "This is what the Lord says: 'About midnight I will go throughout Egypt.

Exodus 11:5   (Read all of Exodus 11)

Every firstborn son in Egypt will die, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh, who sits on the throne, to the firstborn son of the female slave, who is at her hand mill, and all the firstborn of the cattle as well.

Exodus 11:8   (Read all of Exodus 11)

All these officials of yours will come to me, bowing down before me and saying, 'Go, you and all the people who follow you!' After that I will leave." Then Moses, hot with anger, left Pharaoh.

Exodus 11:9   (Read all of Exodus 11)

The Lord had said to Moses, "Pharaoh will refuse to listen to you-so that my wonders may be multiplied in Egypt."

Exodus 12:1   (Read all of Exodus 12)

The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt,

Exodus 12:4   (Read all of Exodus 12)

If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat.

Exodus 12:5   (Read all of Exodus 12)

The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats.

Exodus 12:6   (Read all of Exodus 12)

Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month, when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.

Exodus 12:7   (Read all of Exodus 12)

Then they are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.

Exodus 12:8   (Read all of Exodus 12)

That same night they are to eat the meat roasted over the fire, along with bitter herbs, and bread made without yeast.

Exodus 12:10   (Read all of Exodus 12)

Do not leave any of it till morning; if some is left till morning, you must burn it.

Exodus 12:11   (Read all of Exodus 12)

This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste; it is the Lord's Passover.

Exodus 12:12   (Read all of Exodus 12)

"On that same night I will pass through Egypt and strike down every firstborn of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt. I am the Lord.

Exodus 12:13   (Read all of Exodus 12)

The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.

Exodus 12:14   (Read all of Exodus 12)

"This is a day you are to commemorate; for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord-a lasting ordinance.

Exodus 12:15   (Read all of Exodus 12)

For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast. On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.

Exodus 12:16   (Read all of Exodus 12)

On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.

Exodus 12:19   (Read all of Exodus 12)

For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off from the community of Israel.

Exodus 12:21   (Read all of Exodus 12)

Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.

Exodus 12:22   (Read all of Exodus 12)

Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning.

Exodus 12:23   (Read all of Exodus 12)

When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.

Exodus 12:27   (Read all of Exodus 12)

then tell them, 'It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.' " Then the people bowed down and worshiped.

Exodus 12:29   (Read all of Exodus 12)

At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well.