Exodus 11:7   (Read all of Exodus 11)

But among the Israelites not a dog will bark at any person or animal.' Then you will know that the Lord makes a distinction between Egypt and Israel.

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 12:2   (Read all of Exodus 12)

"This month is to be for you the first month, the first month of your year.

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 12:10   (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 12:13   (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 12:17   (Read all of Exodus 12)

"Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread, because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt. Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.

Exodus 12:18   (Read all of Exodus 12)

In the first month you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.

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 12:20   (Read all of Exodus 12)

Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat unleavened bread."

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 12:24   (Read all of Exodus 12)

"Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants.

Exodus 12:25   (Read all of Exodus 12)

When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony.

Exodus 12:26   (Read all of Exodus 12)

And when your children ask you, 'What does this ceremony mean to you?'

Exodus 12:31   (Read all of Exodus 12)

During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, "Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the Lord as you have requested.

Exodus 12:32   (Read all of Exodus 12)

Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me."