The Blood on the Doors

Yahweh said this month would be the first month of the year for Israel. On the tenth day, each household should take a lamb, a male a year old without blemish. On the fourteenth day they would kill it at evening and put some of its blood on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses. They would eat it roasted, with unleavened bread and bitter herbs, with their belts on, their sandals on their feet and their staff in their hand, eating in haste. It is Yahweh's Passover.

The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are. When I see the blood, I will pass over you. God commanded them to keep this feast forever. When their children asked, What do you mean by this service? they would say, It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt. The people bowed and worshiped, and did as Yahweh commanded.

At midnight Yahweh struck the firstborn in Egypt, and there was a great cry, for there was not a house without someone dead. Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron by night and told them to rise up, go, and serve Yahweh, and to bless him also. The Egyptians urged them to hurry, and gave them silver, gold and clothing. About 600,000 men on foot, besides children, left with a mixed multitude. After 430 years, on that same day, Yahweh brought Israel out of Egypt.