Adonoy said to Moshe and Aharon in the land of Egypt saying:

And the Lord spoke to Moshe and Aharon in the land of Miżrayim, saying,

And the L-rd said to Moses and to Aaron [(Aaron being accorded honor in this first mitzvah (2) for having participated and exerted himself along with Moses in the embassy of the signs)] in the land of Egypt [outside the city (see 11:29)], saying:

“This month shall be [reckoned] to you [as] the head [beginning] of months. It shall be to you the first of the months of the year.

This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

This month [this stage of the moon (the L-rd "pointing it out" to Moses)] [Nissan] shall be to you the beginning of months. It is the first for you of the months of the year.

Speak to the entire community of Israel saying, ‘On the tenth [day] of this month they shall take—each man [shall take] a lamb for [his] family, a lamb for each household.

Speak to all the congregation of Yisra᾽el, saying, On 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:

Speak [today, on Rosh Chodesh] to the whole congregation of Israel, saying: On the tenth day of this month [(the "taking" of the paschal lamb of Egypt was on the tenth, but not that of future generations)] shall they take for themselves, each man a lamb for a family [(and, in the event that the family is large and one lamb will not suffice for it)], a lamb for a household [(i.e., for each household within that family)].

If the [members of the] household are too few for the [eating of a] lamb then he shall take [a lamb] [together] with his neighbor, close by his house, according to the number of individuals. According to what the person eats shall you make your count regarding the lamb.

and if the household be too little for a lamb, let him and his neighbour next to his house take it according to the number of the souls; according to every man’s eating shall you make your count for the lamb.

And if the household is too small for one lamb [so that some of it would be left over (nothar, which is forbidden)], then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take it according to the count of souls. Each according to his eating [(excluding one who is so sick or old that he cannot eat at least an olive size)] shall you [include in the] count for the lamb.

A flawless lamb, a yearling male must be in your possession. You may take it from sheep or goats.

Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: you shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:

A lamb, unblemished, a one-year-old male [i.e., in its first year] shall it be to you. Of the lambs or of the goats shall you take it, [a (young) goat, too, being regarded as a "lamb"].

You shall hold it in safekeeping until the fourteenth day of this month, they shall slaughter it—the entire community of Yisrael—between evenings [in the afternoon].

and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Yisra᾽el shall kill it towards evening.

And it shall be to you for a keeping [i.e., surveillance against blemish] until the fourteenth day of this month [(Israel being given two mitzvoth on that night — the blood of the paschal lamb and the blood of circumcision — to make them worthy of redemption)], and the entire congregation of Israel shall slaughter it [(whence it is derived that one's messenger is reckoned as the sender himself)], from midday (on).

They shall take of its blood and place it on the side of the doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they will eat [the lamb].

And they shall take the blood, and put it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, in which they shall eat it.

And they shall take from the blood [in the basin] and place it on the two side posts and on the lintel of the houses where they shall eat it, [but not on non-dwellings].

They shall eat the meat during this night. It shall be roasted over fire. They shall eat it with matzos and bitter herbs.

And they shall eat the meat in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

And they shall eat the flesh, [but not sinews and bones] on this night, roasted in fire. And matzoth with merorim [(Every bitter herb is called maror)] shall they eat it, [in commemoration of (1:10): "And they embittered (vayemararu) their lives."]

You must not eat it half-cooked or boiled in water, but only roasted over fire, its head with its knees and its inner organs.

Eat not of it raw, nor boiled at all in water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs, and with its entrails.

Do not eat of it not entirely roasted or cooked in water [or any other liquid], but roasted in fire [(a negative commandment here being added to the positive (8)]; [it is to be roasted entire], its head, with its legs, with its inner parts, [and its entrails placed therein after rinsing].

You must not leave any of it over until morning. Any of it left over until morning must be burned in fire.

And you shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.

And you shall not leave over anything of it until the morning [(sunrise)]; and what is left over of it until morning [(dawn)], in fire shall you burn it.

This is how you must eat it: with your waist belted, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand. You must eat it in haste, it is a Pesach-offering to Adonoy.

And thus shall you eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste; it is the Lord’s passover.

And thus shall you eat it: your thighs girded ["ready for the road"], your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste — it is a pesach ("skipping over") offering to the L-rd [see 27].

I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night, and I will strike [kill] every first-born in the land of Egypt, from man to beast; and against all the gods of Egypt, I will execute judgments, I am Adonoy.

For I will pass through the land of Miżrayim this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Miżrayim, both man and beast: and against all the gods of Miżrayim I will execute judgments: I am the Lord.

And I shall pass through the land of Egypt in this night, and I shall smite every first-born in the land of Egypt [(even first-born of other nations in the land of Egypt)], from man until beast; and upon all the gods of Egypt I shall wreak judgments, [wooden idols rotting and metal ones melting]; I am the L-rd [I shall do this Myself and not through a messenger.]

The blood will be for you as a sign on the houses where you are [staying]. I will see the blood and I will pass over you. There will be no plague against you when I strike the land of Egypt.

And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Miżrayim.

And the blood shall be for you as a sign [("for you" and not "for others" — whence it is inferred that the blood was placed on the inside)] upon the houses where you are, and I shall see the blood [i.e., I shall "give heart" to your performance of My mitzvoth], and I shall skip over you, and there will be no destroying plague in you when I smite the land of Egypt [(even if you are found in an Egyptian house — but there will be plague in an Egyptian found in an Israelite house)].

This day shall be for you a [day of] remembrance. You shall celebrate it as a festival to Adonoy, throughout your generations. It is an eternal statute that you must celebrate it.

And this day shall be to you for a memorial; and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations shall you keep it a feast by ordinance for ever.

And this day [of the exodus] shall be for you as a remembrance [for the coming generations], and you shall celebrate it [the fifteenth of Nissan] as a festival of the L-rd. For your generations as an everlasting statute shall you celebrate it.

You must eat matzos for seven days, but before the first day you must remove [all] leaven from your homes; for anyone who eats chametz, that soul will be cut off from Yisrael. [Chametz is forbidden] from the first day [of Pesach] until [after] the seventh day.

Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; but on the first day you shall have put away leaven out of your houses: for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Yisra᾽el.

Seven days [lit., "a septet of days"] shall you eat matzoth. [(Eating matzoth on the first night is obligatory, and, thereafter, optional)] But on the first day [i.e., on the eve of Pesach] you shall eliminate leaven from your houses. For whoever eats chametz, that soul [(one who has volition, but not one who is forced)] shall be cut off from Israel [and from My presence] — from the first day until the seventh day.

The first day shall be a holy assembly and the seventh day shall be a holy assembly to you. No work shall be done on them, only for [the preparation of food] which will be eaten by every person, that alone may be done for you.

And on the first day there shall be a holy gathering, and on the seventh day there shall be a holy gathering to you; no manner of work shall be done on them, save that which every person must eat, that only may be done by you.

And on the first day a calling of holiness and on the seventh day a calling of holiness shall there be unto you. [Call it "holy" for purposes of eating, drinking, and raiment.] No labor shall be done in them [even through a non-Jew]. Only what is to be eaten by all souls, that [labor] alone may be done for you, [and not any preparatory labor which could have been done before the festival].

You must be vigilant regarding the matzos, for on this very day I brought out your hosts from the land of Egypt. You must preserve this day for your generations, it is an eternal statute.

And you shall observe the commandment of unleavened bread; for on this very day have I brought your hosts out of the land of Miżrayim: therefore shall you observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.

And you shall watch over the matzoth [that they not become chametz]; for on this very same day I took your hosts out from the land of Egypt. And you shall guard this day [against performing labor thereon] unto your generations as an everlasting statute.

In the first [month] on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening you shall eat matzos; until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening.

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, shall you eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening.

On the first day, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening shall you eat matzoth, until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening [(whence it is derived that the mitzvah obtains in the evenings, too)].

For seven days leaven may not be found in your homes, for whoever eats chametz that soul shall be cut off from the community of Israel, whether a proselyte or a native born in the land.

Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whoever eats that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Yisra᾽el, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.

Seven days, se'or [a leavening agent] shall not be found in your houses [i.e., under your control — to exclude liability for chametz of a non-Jew which is found in a Jew's property.] For whoever eats leavening, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a proselyte [(for whom the miracle was not performed)] or a citizen of the land.

You must not eat anything that is chametz. In all your dwellings you shall eat matzos.

You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall you eat unleavened bread.

All leavening [(including an admixture — this is the exhortation against the eating of se'or)] you shall not eat. In all of your habitations shall you eat matzoth [(to exclude — as satisfying the mitzvah— matzoth of ma'aser sheni and thanksgiving challoth, which may be eaten only in Jerusalem)].

Moshe called to all the elders of Yisrael, and he said to them, “Draw [from your flocks] or purchase for yourselves a lamb for your families and slaughter it as a Pesach offering.

Then Moshe called for all the elders of Yisra᾽el, and said to them, Draw out and take you lambs according to your families, and kill the passover.

And Moses called to all the elders of Israel, and he said to them: Draw forth [if you have your own,] and take unto yourselves [i.e., buy, if you do not have your own,] sheep for your families [a lamb for a family], and slaughter the pesach.

Take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin. Touch the lintel and the two side [door] posts with some of the blood in the basin. And all of you, let no man go out the door of his house until morning.

And take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and touch with it the lintel and the two side posts, with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.

And you shall take a bundle [three stalks] of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and touch the lintel and the two doorposts (with some) of the blood which is in the basin, [a new dipping for each touching]; and you, do not go out, a man from the door of his house until morning. ["Once 'the destroyer' has been granted leave to destroy, he does not distinguish between righteous and wicked."]

Adonoy will pass through to plague the Egyptians and He will see the blood on the lintel and on the two side [door] posts. Adonoy will then pass over that door and will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses to plague you.

For the Lord will pass through to smite Miżrayim; and when he sees the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you.

And the L-rd will pass through to smite Egypt, and He will see the blood on the lintel and on the two door posts, and the L-rd will skip over the door, and He will not permit the destroyer to come to your houses to smite.

You must preserve this [ritual] as a statute for you and your children forever.

And you shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.

And you shall keep this thing as a statute for you and for your children forever.

When you come to the land that Adonoy will give to you, as He spoke, you must preserve this service.

And it shall come to pass, when you shall come to the land which the Lord will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.

And it shall be, when you come to the land that the L-rd will give you, as He has spoken [6:8], then you shall observe this service. [The service is contingent upon their entering the land. (In the desert they were obliged to observe only one Pesach, in the second year, by Divine command.)]

When your children will ask you, “What is this service of yours?”

And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say to you, What mean you by this service?

And it shall be, if your sons say to you: "What is this service to you?" [an allusion to the question of "the wicked son" (see 13:8)],

You shall say, “It is the Pesach-offering to Adonoy Who passed over the houses of the B’nei Yisrael in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and saved our homes. The people then bowed and prostrated themselves.

that you shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Yisra᾽el in Miżrayim, when he smote Miżrayim, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.

then you shall say: It is a paschal sacrifice to the L-rd, who skipped over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He smote Egypt, and our houses He saved. And the people bowed down and they prostrated themselves [for the tidings of deliverance and entry to the land and for the tidings of the children that would be born to them,]

The B’nei Yisrael went and did as Adonoy commanded Moshe and Aharon. They [also] did so.

And the children of Yisra᾽el went away, and did as the Lord had commanded Moshe and Aharon, so they did.

And the children of Israel went and they did [(their intent to do being regarded as doing, and their going being rewarded as well as their doing)] as the L-rd commanded Moses and Aaron, [exactly, leaving nothing undone.] So did they [Moses and Aaron also] do.

It was [exactly] midnight and Adonoy struck down [killed] every first-born son in the land of Egypt, from the first-born son of Pharaoh sitting on his throne, to the first-born son of the captive [prisoner] who was in the dungeon, as well as every first-born animal.

And it came to pass, that at midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Miżrayim, from the firstborn of Par῾o that sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.

And it was in the middle of the night, and the L-rd [He and His "tribunal"] smote every first-born [even a non-Egyptian] in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of Pharaoh sitting on his throne until the captive first-born in the dungeon [see 11:5 (The first-born of the maid-servant is subsumed in "until the captive first-born")], and every first-born of the beast.

Pharaoh arose at night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house where there were no dead.

And Par῾o rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all Miżrayim; and there was a great cry in Miżrayim; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.

And Pharaoh arose [from his bed] at night [and not in the third hour of the morning in the manner of kings], he and all his servants [(Pharaoh awakened them)] and all of Egypt. And there was a great outcry in Egypt, for there was no house where no one had died. [If there were no first-born there, the eldest in the house died.]

[Pharaoh] called for Moshe and Aharon that night and said, “Set out! Get out from among my people, both you and the B’nei Yisrael. Go worship Adonoy as you have said [requested].

And he called for Moshe and Aharon by night, and said, Rise up, and get you out from among my people, both you and the children of Yisra᾽el; and go, serve the Lord, as you have said.

And he called to Moses and to Aaron at night, and he said: Arise, go out from the midst of my people, both you [the adults] and the children of Israel [the children], and go serve the L-rd as you have spoken [and not as I have spoken].

Take your sheep and cattle too, as you have said and go; bless me too.

Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also.

Also your flocks and also your herds take, as you have spoken [i.e., Take also of mine as you have spoken (10:25): "You, too, etc"], and go and bless also me [Pray for me that I not die, for I, too, am a first-born.]

The Egyptians pressed the people to hurry them—to send them out of the land, for they said, “We are all dead men.”

And Miżrayim was urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We are all dead men.

And Egypt bore down upon the people, hastening to send them out of the land, for they said: We are all dead, [even non first-born dying, beyond the decree of Moses].

The people took their dough before it was leavened. Their leftovers were wrapped in their clothing, [and carried] on their shoulders.

And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading troughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.

And the people took their dough before it leavened, [the Egyptians pressing them to leave], their [matzoh and maror] remnants bound up in their clothes, on their shoulders [and not upon their beasts, in the love of the mitzvah].

The B’nei Yisrael did as Moshe said, and they requested of the Egyptians silver articles and gold articles and clothing.

And the children of Yisra᾽el did according to the word of Moshe; and they asked of Miżrayim jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and garments:

And the children of Israel did as Moses had bid them [11:2] and they asked of Egypt vessels of silver and vessels of gold and raiment.

Adonoy granted the people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians, and they granted their request. They [B’nei Yisrael thus] drained Egypt of its wealth.

and the Lord gave the people favour in the sight of Miżrayim, so that they gave them such things as they required. And they despoiled Miżrayim.

And the L-rd placed the favor of the people in the eyes of Egypt, and they lent them [even more than they asked], and they emptied out Egypt.

The B’nei Yisrael traveled from Ramseis to Sukkos. There were about six hundred thousand males on foot besides the children.

And the children of Yisra᾽el journeyed from Ra῾meses to Sukkot, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children.

And the children of Israel journeyed from Ramses to Succoth [a distance of one hundred and twenty miles, "on eagle's wings" (19:4)], six hundred thousand men on foot, aside from the children.

A great mixture [of nationalities] also went up with them. There were [also] sheep and cattle, a huge amount of livestock.

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

And also a great mixture [of proselytes] went up with them. And flocks and herds, a great crush of cattle.

They baked the dough that they had brought out of Egypt into matzoh cakes, for it was not leavened. Since they were driven out of Egypt and could not delay, they had also not prepared provisions for themselves.

And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought out of Miżrayim, for it was not leavened; because they were driven out of Miżrayim, and could not delay, neither had they prepared for themselves any provision.

And they baked the dough which they had taken out of Egypt, cakes of matzoh, for it had not leavened. For they were driven out of Egypt and they could not tarry; and provisions, too, they could not make for themselves [(a tribute to Israel's belief in the L-rd, venturing forth into the desert without provisions)].

The habitation of the B’nei Yisrael living in Egypt lasted four hundred and thirty years.

Now the sojourning of the children of Yisra᾽el, who dwelt in Miżrayim, was four hundred and thirty years.

And the habitation of the children of Israel in the land of Egypt [and their habitations outside it after "Your seed shall be a stranger, etc." (Genesis 15:13)] was [all together] four hundred and thirty years.

It was at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, and on that very day all of Adonoy’s multitudes went out of the land of Egypt.

And it came to pass at the end of four hundred and thirty years, even on that very day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the Lord went out from the land of Miżrayim.

And it was at the end of four hundred and thirty years, and it was on this very same day [the fifteenth of Nissan, (the date of the angels' tidings to Abraham on the birth of a son, the date of Isaac's birth, the date of the covenant between the pieces — the L-rd not delaying an instant after the arrival of the foretold time)] that all the hosts of the L-rd went out of the land of Egypt.

This was a night of vigil for Adonoy, to bring them out of the land of Egypt. This night remains a night of vigil to Adonoy for all the B’nei Yisrael for [all] their generations.

It is a night of watchfulness to the Lord for bringing them out from the land of Miżrayim: this is the Lord’s watchnight, for all the children of Yisra᾽el in their generations.

It is a night of guarding for the L-rd, ["guarded" by the L-rd] to take them out from the land of Egypt; it is "this night" of the L-rd [i.e., of His saying to Abraham: "On this night I shall redeem your children"], guarded [against destructive agents] for all the children of Israel for (all) their generations [see 33].

Adonoy said to Moshe and Aharon, “This is the statute of the Pesach offering: No alien may eat it.

And the Lord said to Moshe and Aharon, This is the ordinance of the passover: no stranger shall eat of it:

And the L-rd said to Moses and Aaron [(on the fourteenth of Nissan)]: This is the statute of the paschal offering: No stranger [(Both a heretical Jew and a non-Jew are implied)] may eat of it.

However each man’s slave [if he was]purchased with money, you must circumcise him and then he may eat it.

but every man’s servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat of it.

And every man-servant acquired by money — you shall circumcise him; then shall he [(according to one view, the master; according to another, the servant)] eat of it.

An [alien] sojourner or hired worker may not eat it.

A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.

A sojourner [a ger toshav (one who does not convert fully, but who undertakes not to serve idols and to observe the seven Noahide laws)] and a hired man [a non-Jew] may not eat of it. [The above applies (even) to a circumcised Arab or a circumcised Giveonite who is a sojourner or a hired man.]

It must be eaten in one house. You must not remove from the house any of its flesh, to the outdoors, and you must not break any of its bones.

In one house shall it be eaten: thou shalt not take any of the meat outside, out of the house; neither shall you break a bone of it.

In one house [i.e., group] shall it be eaten. Do not take from the house [i.e., from the group] of the flesh outside. And a bone [which has an olive-size of meat on it] shall you not break in it.

The entire community of Yisrael must make this [offering].

All the congregation of Yisra᾽el shall keep it.

The entire congregation of Israel [in any groups] shall offer it [in future generations, (as opposed to the Pesach of Egypt, when it was offered by family groups)].

When a proselyte dwells with you and wants to make the Pesach-offering to Adonoy, every male must be circumcised. He may then come near [join] to make it, and be like the native born. But no uncircumcised male may eat of it.

And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.

And if there live with you a stranger (i.e., a proselyte) and he would offer a paschal offering to the L-rd [on the fourteenth of Nissan], let all of his males be circumcised and then he shall draw near to offer it. And he shall be as the citizen of the land, and no uncircumcised one shall eat of it [(including one who is not circumcised because his brothers have died as a result of circumcision)].

There shall be one law for the native born and for the proselyte who dwells among you.

One Tora shall be to him that is homeborn, and to the stranger that sojourns among you.

One Torah shall there be for the citizen and for the stranger that lives in your midst. [The proselyte is hereby equated with the citizen for all of the other mitzvoth of the Torah.]

All the B’nei Yisrael did as Adonoy commanded Moshe and Aharon. They [Moshe and Aharon] also did so.

Thus did all the children of Yisra᾽el; as the Lord commanded Moshe and Aharon so they did.

And all the children of Israel did as the L-rd commanded Moses and Aaron; thus did they do.

On that very day, Adonoy took the B’nei Yisrael out of Egypt in their multitudes.

And it came to pass on that selfsame day, that the Lord did bring the children of Yisra᾽el out of the land of Miżrayim by their hosts.

And it was in this very same day that the L-rd took the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.