Exodus 12:31-39

31During the night, Pharaoh called Moses and Aaron to come to him. He said, ‘Get out of here! Take all the Israelites with you and go away from my people! Go and worship the Lord, as you asked me before.

32Take all your animals with you, as you have said. Just go away! But also pray that God will bless me.’

33The Egyptians were telling the Israelites to leave quickly. They wanted them to go out of the country immediately. The Egyptians said, ‘If we do not send them away immediately, we will all die!’

34So the Israelites took their bread before they had cooked it. They had not even put the yeast into it. They put the bread in dishes and they put clothes round the dishes. Then they carried the dishes on their shoulders.

35The Israelites obeyed Moses. They asked the Egyptians for silver and gold. They also asked them for clothes.

36The Lord had caused the Egyptians to be kind to the Israelites. Because of this, the Egyptians gave the Israelites everything that they asked for. In that way, the Israelites took away all the valuable things that belonged to the Egyptians.

37The Israelites travelled from Rameses to Succoth. There were about 600,000 men who walked. There were also many women and children.

38Many other people also travelled with them. They had a very large number of sheep, goats and cows.

39The Israelites cooked the bread that they had brought with them from Egypt. It had no yeast in it, because they had to leave Egypt quickly. The Egyptians did not let them wait. So the Israelites did not have time to prepare any food for themselves.