1 And Shema spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying: 2 “This month [shall be] the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3 Speak now to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month each man shall take a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. 4 And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of persons; you shall count them for the lamb according to how much each person eats. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old; you shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats. 6 And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, and the whole assembly of the congregation of the children of Israel shall kill it at twilight. 7 And they shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel, on the houses where they shall eat it. 8 And they shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire, they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 9 Do not eat of it raw or boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; its head with its legs and with its inner parts. 10 And you shall let nothing of it remain until the morning, and anything that remains until the morning you shall burn with fire. 11 And you shall eat it this way: with your clothes fastened around your waist, your shoes on your feet, and your staffs in your hands; and you shall eat it in a hurry. It is Shema’s Passover. 12 For I will go through the land of Egypt that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both people and animals. And against all the gods of Egypt I will carry out judgments. I am Shema.

13 And 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 the plague shall not be on you to destroy [you], when I strike the land of Egypt. 14 And this day shall be a day of remembrance for you, and you shall celebrate it as a festival to Shema; throughout your generations you shall observe it as a statute forever. 15 Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. But on the first day you shall remove leaven from your houses, for if anyone eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that person shall be cut off from Israel. 16 And on the first day you shall have a sacred assembly, and on the seventh day a sacred assembly. No kind of work shall be done on those days, except preparing what each person must eat; only that may be done by you. 17 And you shall observe the commandment, for on this very day I have brought your organized groups out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you shall observe and celebrate this day throughout your generations by a statute forever. 18 In the first [month], on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. 19 For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses, for if anyone eats anything leavened, that person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreign resident or a native of the land. 20 You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your homes you shall eat unleavened bread.”

21 Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them: “Choose and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover [lamb]. 22 And you shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and sprinkle on the lintel and on the two doorposts from the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. 23 For Shema will pass through to strike the Egyptians, and when he sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, Shema will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike [you]. 24 And you shall observe this thing as a rule for you and to your sons forever. 25 And when you come to the land which Shema will give you, as he has promised, you shall keep this service in this month. 26 And when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ 27 you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of Shema’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and saved our houses.’” And the people bowed down and worshiped. 28 And the children of Israel went and did as Shema had commanded Moses and Aaron; that is what they did.

29 And at midnight Shema struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle. 30 And Pharaoh got up in the night, he and all his servants, and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house without someone dead. 31 And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said: “Get up, go out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Shema, as you have said. 32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and leave; and bless me also.” 33 And the Egyptians pressed the people to leave the land quickly; for they said: “We are all dead men.” 34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls wrapped in their clothes on their shoulders. 35 And the children of Israel did according to the words of Moses, and they asked the Egyptians for vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and clothing. 36 And Shema gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. In this way they plundered the Egyptians.

37 And the children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Sukkoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children. 38 And a mixed crowd went up also with them, and flocks, and herds, a great many cattle. 39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough, which they brought out of Egypt, for it was not leavened, because the Egyptians drove them out, and they could not delay, and they had not prepared any provisions for themselves. 40 Now the time that the children of Israel and their ancestors lived in the land of Canaan and in the land of Egypt⁠a was four hundred and thirty years.⁠b 41 And at the end of four hundred and thirty years, on that very day, all the organized groups of Shema went out from the land of Egypt 42 at night. It is a night to be carefully observed for Shema for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Shema, to be carefully observed by all the children of Israel throughout their generations.

43 And Shema said to Moses and to Aaron: “This is the rule of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it; 44 but every man’s servant that is bought for his money, when you have circumcised him, then he shall eat of it. 45 A foreign resident and a hired servant shall not eat of it. 46 It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the flesh outside of the house; and you shall not break a bone of it. 47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. 48 And when a foreigner lives among you and wants to keep the Passover to Shema, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be like a native of the land, but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. 49 The same law shall apply to the native and to the foreigner who lives among you. 50 And all the children of Israel did as Shema commanded Moses and Aaron; that is what they did. 51 And on that very day Shema did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt in their organized groups.