Exodus 12:40-51

40The Israelites had lived in Egypt for 430 years.

41It was on the last day of the 430 years that all the Lord's people left Egypt. They left in family groups, like an army.

42The Lord carefully watched his people all that night, when he brought them out of Egypt. Because of that, all Israelites must watch carefully during this special night. They and their descendants must do this every year, to thank the Lord.

43Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ‘These are the rules for the Passover festival: No foreign person may eat the Passover meal.

44If you buy a foreign slave, you must first circumcise him. Then he may eat the food.

45But if you pay him money for his work, he must not eat the food. A visitor also must not eat the food.

46You must eat the meal in one house. You must not take any of the meat outside the house. You must not break any of the bones in the meat.

47All the Israelites must enjoy the feast together.

48There may be a foreign person who lives among you. He may want to join you to eat the Lord's Passover meal. But he must first be circumcised as well as all the men in his house. Then he can join with you and eat the Passover meal. He will be like a man who has been born in Israel. But no male person without circumcision can join the Passover feast.

49Both the people who were born as Israelites and the foreign people who live among you must obey this rule.’

50All the Israelites did everything that the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.

51On that same day, the Lord brought the Israelites out of Egypt, in family groups, like an army.