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The Passover instituted.

EXODUS.

Unleavened bread. the LORD doth put a difference between 13 And the blood shall be to you for a the Egyptians and Israel. token upon the houses where ye are: 8 And all these thy servants shall come and when I see the blood, I will pass over down unto me, and bow down themselves you, and the plague shall not be upon you unto me, saying, Get thee out, and all the to destroy you, when I smite the land of people that follow thee; and after that I Egypt. will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh

in a great anger.

14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to 9 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pha- the LORD throughout your generations: ye raoh shall not hearken unto you; that my shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for wonders may be multiplied in the land of ever.

Egypt. 15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened 10 And Moses and Aaron did all these bread; even the first day ye shall put away wonders before Pharaoh; and the LORD leaven out of your houses: for whosoever hardened Pharaoh's heart, so that he would eateth leavened bread, from the first day not let the children of Israel go out of his until the seventh day, that soul shall be land. cut off from Israel.

CHAP. XII.

AND the LORD spake unto Moses and

Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

3 ¶ Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house:

16 And in the first day there shall be a

holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be a holy convocation to you: no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.

17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this self-same day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.

4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto 18 In the first month, on the fourteenth his house take it according to the number day of the month at even, ye shall eat unof the souls: every man according to his leavened bread, until the one and tweneating shall make your count for the lamb. tieth day of the month at even.

5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, 19 Seven days shall there be no leaven a male of the first year: ye shall take it found in your houses: for whosoever eatout from the sheep or from the goats: eth that which is leavened, even that soul 6 And ye shall keep it up until the four-shall be cut off from the congregation of teenth day of the same month: and the Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born whole assembly of the congregation of Is-in the land. rael shall kill it in the evening.

20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened: in 7 And they shall take of the blood, and all your habitations shall ye eat unleavenstrike it on the two side-posts, and on the ed bread. upper door-post, of the houses, wherein 21 Then Moses called for all the elthey shall eat it. ders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw 8 And they shall eat the flesh in that out, and take you a lamb, according to night, roast with fire, and unleavened your families, and kill the passover. bread; and with bitterherbs they shall eat it. 22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, 9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, with water, but roast with fire; his head and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with his legs, and with the purtenance with the blood that is in the bason: and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.

thereof.

10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.

23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two 11 ¶ And thus shall ye eat it; with your side-posts, the LORD will pass over the loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and door, and will not suffer the destroyer to your staff in your hand: and ye shall eat come in unto your houses to smite you. it in haste; it is the LORD's passover. 24 And ye shall observe this thing for an

12 For I will pass through the land of ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever. Egypt this night, and will smite all the 25 And it shall come to pass, when ye first-born in the land of Egypt, both man be come to the land which the LORD will and beast and against all the gods of give you, according as he hath promised, Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the that ye shall keep this service. 26 And it shall come to pass, when

LORD.

The first-born of Egypt slain,

CHAP. XIII. and the Israelites driven out.

your children shall say unto you, What the hosts of the LORD went out from the mean ye by this service? land of Egypt.

27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice 42 It is a night to be much observed of the LORD's passover, who passed over unto the LORD, for bringing them out from the houses of the children of Israel in the land of Egypt: this is that night of the Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and LORD to be observed of all the children of delivered our houses. And the people Israel in their generations. bowed the head and worshipped.

43 And the LORD said unto Moses and 28 And the children of Israel went Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passoaway, and did as the LORD had command-ver: there shall no stranger eat thereof: ed Moses and Aaron, so did they. 44 But every man's servant that is

29 And it came to pass, that at mid-bought for money, when thou hast circumnight the LORD smote all the first-born in cised him, then shall he eat thereof. the land of Egypt, from the first-born of 45 A foreigner, and a hired servant Pharaoh that sat on his throne, unto the shall not eat thereof. first-born of the captive that was in the 46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou dungeon; and all the first-born of cattle. shalt not carry forth aught of the flesh 30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, abroad out of the house: neither shall ye be, and all his servants, and all the Egyp-break a bone thereof.

tians; and there was a great cry in Egypt: 47 All the congregation of Israel shall for there was not a house where there was keep it. not one dead.

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48 And when a stranger shall sojourn And he called for Moses and Aaron with thee, and will keep the passover to by night, and said, Rise up, and get you the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, forth from among my people, both ye and and then let him come near and keep it; the children of Israel: and go, serve the and he shall be as one that is born in the LORD, as ye have said. land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.

32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone: and bless me also.

33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.

49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.

50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.

34 And the people took their dough 51 And it came to pass the self-same before it was leavened, their kneading day, that the LORD did bring the children troughs being bound up in their clothes of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their upon their shoulders.

35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses: and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment.

armies.

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CHAP. XIII.

ND the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

2 Sanctify unto me all the first-born,

36 And the LORD gave the people fa- whatsoever openeth the womb among the vour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that children of Israel, both of man and of they lent unto them such things as they re-beast: it is mine.

quired: and they spoiled the Egyptians. 3 And Moses said unto the people, 37 And the children of Israel jour- Remember this day, in which ye came out neyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six from Egypt, out of the house of bondage; bundred thousand on foot that were men, for by strength of hand the LORD brought besides children. you out from this place: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.

38. And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.

4 This day came ye out, in the month Abib.

39 And they baked unleavened cakes 5 T And it shall be when the LORD shall of the dough which they brought forth out bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, of Egypt, for it was not leavened: because and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and they were thrust out of Egypt, and could the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he not tarry, neither had they prepared for sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land themselves any victual.

40 Now the sojourning of the children of Israel who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

flowing with milk and honey; that thou shalt keep this service in this month.

6 Seven days shalt thou eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day shall be a

41 And it came to pass, at the end of feast to the LORD. the four hundred and thirty years, even 7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven the self-same day it came to pass, that all days; and there shall no leavened bread

The first-born sanctified to God.

EXODUS. Pharaoh pursues the Israelites.

be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy quarters. 8 And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, This is done because of that which the LORD did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.

22 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by night, from before the people. CHAP. XIV.

AND the LORD spake unto Moses, say

ing,

9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee 2 Speak unto the children of Israel, that upon thy hand, and for a memorial be- they turn and encamp before Pi-hahiroth, tween thine eyes; that the LORD's law may between Migdol and the sea, over against be in thy mouth: for with a strong hand Baal-zephon: before it shall ye encamp hath the LORD brought thee out of Egypt. by the sea.

10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.

11 And it shall be when the LORD shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites, as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,

3 For Pharaoh will say of the children of Israel, They are entangled in the land, the wilderness hath shut them in.

4 And I will harden Pharaoh's heart, that he shall follow after them; and I will be honoured upon Pharaoh, and upon all his host; that the Egyptians may know that I am the LORD. And they did so.

5 And it was told the king of Egypt that the people fled: and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was turned against the people, and they said, Why have we done this, that we have let Israel go from

12 That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix; and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast, the males shall be the LORD's. 13 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the first-born of man among serving us? thy children shalt thou redeem.

6 And he made ready his chariot, and

14 And it shall be when thy son ask-took his people with him: eth thee in time to come, saying, What is 7 And he took six hundred chosen chathis? that thou shalt say unto him, By riots, and all the chariots of Egypt, and strength of hand the LORD brought us out captains over every one of them. from Egypt, from the house of bondage: 8 And the LORD hardened the heart of 15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh Pharaoh king of Egypt, and he pursued would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew after the children of Israel: and the chilall the first-born in the land of Egypt, both dren of Israel went out with a high hand. the first-born of man, and the first-born of 9 But the Egyptians pursued after them beasts: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all (all the horses and chariots of Pharaoh, that openeth the matrix, being males; but and his horsemen, and his army) and overall the first-born of my children I redeem. took them encamping by the sea, beside 16 And it shall be for a token upon Pi-hahiroth, before Baal-zephon. thy hand, and for frontlets between thine eyes: for by strength of hand the LORD brought us forth out of Egypt.

10 ¶ And when Pharaoh drew nigh, the children of Israel lifted up their eyes, and behold, the Egyptians marched after them; 17 And it came to pass, when Pha- and they were sore afraid: and the chilraoh had let the people go, that God led dren of Israel cried out unto the LORD. them not through the way of the land of 11 And they said unto Moses, Because the Philistines, although that was near: there were no graves in Egypt, hast thou for God said, Lest peradventure the peo- taken us away to die in the wilderness? ple repent when they see war, and they Wherefore hast thou dealt thus with us, to return to Egypt: carry us forth out of Egypt?

18 But God led the people about, 12 Is not this the word that we did tell through the way of the wilderness of the thee in Egypt, saying, Let us alone, that Red sea and the children of Israel went we may serve the Egyptians? For it had up harnessed out of the land of Egypt. been better for us to serve the Egyptians, 19 And Moses took the bones of Joseph than that we should die in the wilderwith him for he had straitly sworn the ness. children of Israel, saying, God will surely 13 And Moses said unto the people, visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones Fear ye not, stand still, and see the salvaaway hence with you. tion of the LORD, which he will shew to 20 And they took their journey from you to-day: for the Egyptians whom ye Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the have seen to-day, ye shall see them again edge of the wilderness. no more for ever.

21 And the LORD went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light: to go by day and night.

14 The LORD shall fight for you, and ye shall hold your peace.

15 And the LORD said unto Moses, Wherefore criest thou uuto me? Speak

The Egyptians drowned.

CHAP. XV.

The song of Moses. unto the children of Israel, that they go upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and forward: the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

16 But lift thou up thy rod, and stretch out thy hand over the sea, and divide it : 30 Thus the LORD saved Israel that day and the children of Israel shall go on dry out of the hand of the Lgyptians: and ground through the midst of the sea. Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the 17 And 1, behold, I will harden the sea-shore.

hearts of the Egyptians, and they shall fol- 31 And Israel saw that great work low them: and I will get me honour upon which the LORD did upon the Egyptians: Pharaoh, and upon all his host, upon his and the people feared the LORD, and bechariots, and upon his horsemen. lieved the LORD, and his servant Moses. CHAP. XV.

18 T And the Egyptians shall know that I am the LORD, when I have gotten me honour upon Pharaoh, upon his chariots, and upon his horsemen.

THE

HEN sng Moses and the children of Israel this song unto the LORD, and spake, saying, I will sing unto the LORD, 19 And the angel of God which went for he hath triumphed gloriously; the horse before the camp of Israel, removed, and and his rider hath he thrown into the sea. went behind them; and the pillar of the 2 The LORD is my strength and song, cloud went from before their face, and and he is become my salvation: he is my stood behind them: God, and I will prepare him a habitation; my father's God, and I will exalt him. 3 The LORD is a man of war: the LORD is his name.

20 And it came between the camp of the Egyptians and the camp of Israel; and it was a cloud and darkness to them, but it gave light by night to these: so that the one came not near the other all the night.

21 And Moses stretched out his hand over the sea; and the LORD caused the sea to go back by a strong east wind all that night, and made the sea dry land, and the waters were divided.

22 And the children of Israel went into the midst of the sea upon the dry ground: and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left.

23 And the Egyptians pursued, and went in after them, to the midst of the sea, even all Pharaoh's horses, his chariots, and his horsemen.

24 And it came to pass, that in the morning-watch the LORD looked unto the host of the Egyptians through the pillar of fire and of the cloud, and troubled the host of the Egyptians,

4 Pharaoh's chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.

5 The depths have covered them: they sank into the bottom as a stone.

6 Thy right hand, O LORD, is become glorious in power: thy right hand, O LORD, hath dashed in pieces the enemy.

7 And in the greatness of thine excellency thou hast overthrown them that rose up against thee: thou sentest forth thy wrath, which consumed them as stubble.

8 And with the blast of thy nostrils the waters were gathered together, the floods stood upright as a heap, and the depths were congealed in the heart of the sea.

9 The enemy said, I will pursue, I will overtake, I will divide the spoil: my lust shall be satisfied upon them; I will draw my sword, my hand shall destroy them. 25 And took off their chariot-wheels, 10 Thou didst blow with thy wind, the that they drave them heavily: so that the sea covered them: they sank as lead in Egyptians said, Let us flee from the face the mighty waters.

of Israel; for the LORD fighteth for them 11. Who is like unto thee, O LORD, against the Egyptians. among the gods? who is like thee, glori 26 T And the LORD said unto Moses, ous in holiness, fearful in praises, doing Stretch out thy hand over the sea, that wonders?

the waters may come again upon the Egyp- 12 Thou stretchedst out thy right hand, tians, upon their chariots, and upon their the earth swallowed them.

borsemen.

13 Thou in thy mercy hast led forth

27 And Moses stretched forth his hand the people which thou hast redeemed: over the sea, and the sea returned to his thou hast guided them in thy strength unto strength when the morning appeared; and thy holy habitation. the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea.

28 And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them: there remained not so much as one of them.

14 The people shall hear, and be afraid: sorrow shall take hold on the inhabitants of Palestina.

15 Then the dukes of Edom shall be amazed; the mighty men of Moab, trembling shall take hold upon them; all the inhabitants of Canaan shall melt away.

16 Fear and dread shall fall upon them; 29 But the children of Israel walked by the greatness of thine arm they shall be

The waters at Marah sweetened. EXODUS.

Quails and manna sent.

as still as a stone; till thy people pass when we sat by the flesh-pots, and when over, O LORD, till the people pass over. we did eat bread to the full: for ye have which thou hast purchased. brought us forth into this wilderness, to

17 Thou she bring them in, and plant kill this whole assembly with hunger. them in the mountain of thine inheritance, 4 Then said the LORD unto Moses, in the place, O LORD, which thou hast made Behold, I will rain bread from heaven for for thee to dwell in; in the sanctuary, O you; and the people shall go out and LORD, which thy hands have established. gather a certain rate every day, that I may 18 The LORD shall reign for ever and prove them, whether they will walk in my law, or no.

ever.

19 For the horse of Pharaoh went in 5 And it shall come to pass, that on the with his chariots and with his horsemen sixth day they shall prepare that which into the sea, and the LORD bught again they bring in; and it shall be twice as the waters of the sea upon them: but the much as they gather daily. children of Israel went on dry land in the 6 And Moses and Aaron said unto all midst of the sea. the children of Israel, At even, then ye 20 And Miriam the prophetess, the shall know that the LORD hath brought sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her you out from the land of Egypt: hand; and all the women went out after her, with timbrels, and with dances.

21 And Miriam answered them, Sing yel to the LORD, for he hath triumphed gloriously the horse and his rider hath he thrown into the sea.

22 So Moses brought Israel from the Red sea, and they went out into the wilderness of Shur; and they went three days in the wilderness, and found no water.

23 And when they came to Marah, they could not drink of the waters of Marah; for they were bitter: therefore the name of it was called Marah.

24 And the people murmured against Moses, saying, What shall we drink?

25 And he cried unto the LORD; and the LORD shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,

7 And in the morning, then ye sha I see the glory of the LORD: for that he heareth your murmurings against the LORD: And what are we, that ye murmur against us?

8 And Moses said, This shall be when the LORD shall give you in the evening flesh to eat, and in the morning bread to the full; for that the LORD heareth your murmurings which ye murmur against him: And what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the LORD.

9 And Moses spake unto Aaron, Say unto all the congregation of the children of Israel, Come near before the LORD: for he hath heard your murmurings.

10 And it came to pass, as Aaron spake unto the whole congregation of the children of Israel, that they looked toward the wilderness, and behold, the glory of the LORD appeared in the cloud.

11 And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,

26 And said, If thou wilt diligently 12 I have heard the murmurings of the hearken to the voice of the LORD thy God, children of Israel; speak unto them, sayand wilt do that which is right in his sight, ing, At even ye shall eat flesh, and in the and wilt give ear to his commandments, morning ye shall be filled with bread: and and keep all his statutes, I will put none ye shall know that I am the LORD your of these diseases upon thee, which I have God.

LORD that healeth thee.

brought upon the Egyptians: for I am the 13 And it came to pass, that at even the quails came up, and covered the camp: 27 And they came to Elim, where and in the morning the dew lay round were twelve wells of water, and three-about the host.

score and ten palm-trees: and they en- 14 And when the dew that lay was gone camped there by the waters. up, behold, upon the face of the wilderness there lay a small round thing, as small

CHAP. XVI.

AND they took their journey from Elim, as the boar frost on the ground;

and all the congregation of the chil- 15 And when the children of Israel saw dren of Israel came unto the wilderness of it, they said one to another, It is manna : Sin, which is between Elim and Sinai, on for they wist not what it was. And Moses the fifteenth day of the second month after said unto them, This is the bread which their departing out of the land of Egypt. the LORD hath given you to eat. 2 And the whole congregation of the children of Israel murmured against Moses and Aaron in the wilderness:

3 And the children of Israel said unto them, Would to God we had died by the band of the LORD in the land of Egypt,

16 T This is the thing which the LORD hath commanded, Gather of it every man according to his eating: an omer for every man according to the number of your persons, take ye every man for them which are in his tents.

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