the firstborn of the female servant who is behind the mill;
and all the firstborn of livestock.
011:006 There shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt,
such as there has not been, nor shall be any more.
011:007 But against any of the children of Israel a dog won't
even bark or move its tongue, against man or animal;
that you may know that Yahweh makes a distinction between
the Egyptians and Israel.
011:008 All these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down
themselves to me, saying, "Get out, with all the people
who follow you;" and after that I will go out.'"
He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
011:009 Yahweh said to Moses, "Pharaoh won't listen to you, that my
wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt."
011:010 Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, and Yahweh
hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he didn't let the children
of Israel go out of his land.
012:001 Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
012:002 "This month shall be to you the beginning of months.
It shall be the first month of the year to you.
012:003 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth
day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb,
according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household;
012:004 and if the household be too little for a lamb, then he and
his neighbor next to his house shall take one according
to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can
eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
012:005 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old.
You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
012:006 and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month;
and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall
kill it at evening.
012:007 They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts
and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.
012:008 They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire,
and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.
012:009 Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted
with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.
012:010 You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning;
but that which remains of it until the morning you shall
burn with fire.
012:011 This is how you shall eat it: with your waist girded,
your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand;
and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh's Passover.
012:012 For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike
all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal.
Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments:
I am Yahweh.
012:013 The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are:
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