Exodus 12:34-51

34The Israelites took their bread dough before yeast was added. They wrapped their kneading boards in their cloaks and carried them on their shoulders.

35And the people of Israel did as Moses had instructed; they asked the Egyptians for clothing and articles of silver and gold.

36The Lord caused the Egyptians to look favorably on the Israelites, and they gave the Israelites whatever they asked for. So they stripped the Egyptians of their wealth!

37That night the people of Israel left Rameses and started for Succoth. There were about 600,000 men, plus all the women and children.

38A rabble of non-Israelites went with them, along with great flocks and herds of livestock.

39For bread they baked flat cakes from the dough without yeast they had brought from Egypt. It was made without yeast because the people were driven out of Egypt in such a hurry that they had no time to prepare the bread or other food.

40The people of Israel had lived in Egypt for 430 years.

41In fact, it was on the last day of the 430th year that all the Lord’s forces left the land.

42On this night the Lord kept his promise to bring his people out of the land of Egypt. So this night belongs to him, and it must be commemorated every year by all the Israelites, from generation to generation.

43Then the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “These are the instructions for the festival of Passover. No outsiders are allowed to eat the Passover meal.

44But any slave who has been purchased may eat it if he has been circumcised.

45Temporary residents and hired servants may not eat it.

46Each Passover lamb must be eaten in one house. Do not carry any of its meat outside, and do not break any of its bones.

47The whole community of Israel must celebrate this Passover festival.

48“If there are foreigners living among you who want to celebrate the Lord’s Passover, let all their males be circumcised. Only then may they celebrate the Passover with you like any native-born Israelite. But no uncircumcised male may ever eat the Passover meal.

49This instruction applies to everyone, whether a native-born Israelite or a foreigner living among you.”

50So all the people of Israel followed all the Lord’s commands to Moses and Aaron.

51On that very day the Lord brought the people of Israel out of the land of Egypt like an army.