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Book of Exodus, Chapter 12

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Chapter 12 of Exodus—New World Translation (NWT)

  1. ¶ Jehovah now said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:
  2. “This month will be the start of the months for YOU. It will be the first of the months of the year for YOU.1
  3. Speak to the entire assembly of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month they are to take for themselves each one a sheep[a]2 for the ancestral house, a sheep to a house.
  4. But if the household proves to be too small for the sheep, then he and his neighbor close by must take it into his house according to the number of souls;[b] YOU should compute each one proportionate to his eating as regards the sheep.
  5. The sheep should prove to be sound,3 a male, a year old, for YOU.4 YOU may pick from the young rams[c] or from the goats.
  6. And it must continue under safeguard by YOU until the fourteenth day of this month,5 and the whole congregation of the assembly of Israel must slaughter it between the two evenings.[d]6
  7. And they must take some of the blood and splash[e] it upon the two doorposts[f] and the upper part of the doorway[g] belonging to the houses in which they will eat it.7
  8. ¶ “‘And they must eat the flesh on this night.8 They should eat it roasted with fire and with unfermented cakes[h]9 along with bitter greens.10
  9. Do not eat any of it raw[i] or boiled, cooked in water, but roast with fire, its head together with its shanks and its interior parts.
  10. And YOU must not leave any of it over till morning, but what is left over of it till morning YOU should burn with fire.11
  11. And in this way YOU should eat it, with YOUR hips girded,12 sandals13 on YOUR feet and YOUR staff in YOUR hand; and YOU must eat it in haste. It is Jehovah’s passover.[j]14
  12. And I must pass through the land of Egypt on this night15 and strike every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from man to beast;16 and on all the gods[k] of Egypt I shall execute judgments.17 I am Jehovah.18
  13. And the blood must serve as YOUR sign upon the houses where YOU are; and I must see the blood and pass over YOU,19 and the plague will not come on YOU as a ruination when I strike at the land of Egypt.
  14. ¶ “‘And this day must serve as a memorial for YOU, and YOU must celebrate it as a festival to Jehovah[l] throughout YOUR generations. As a statute to time indefinite YOU should celebrate it.
  15. Seven days YOU are to eat unfermented cakes. Yes, on the first day YOU are to take away sourdough[m] from YOUR houses, because anyone eating what is leavened, from the first day down to the seventh,20 that soul must be cut off from Israel.21
  16. And on the first day there is to take place for YOU a holy convention,[n] and on the seventh day a holy convention.22 No work is to be done on them.23 Only what every soul needs to eat, that alone may be done for YOU.24
  17. ¶ “‘And YOU must keep the festival of unfermented cakes,25 because on this very day I must bring YOUR armies out from the land of Egypt. And YOU must keep this day throughout YOUR generations as a statute to time indefinite.
  18. In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, in the evening YOU are to eat unfermented cakes down till the twenty-first day of the month in the evening.26
  19. Seven days no sourdough is to be found in YOUR houses, because anyone tasting what is leavened, whether he is an alien resident or a native of the land,27 that soul must be cut off from the assembly of Israel.28
  20. Nothing leavened are YOU to eat. In all YOUR dwellings YOU are to eat unfermented cakes.’”
  21. ¶ Promptly Moses called all the older men of Israel29 and said to them: “Draw out and take for yourselves small cattle[o] according to YOUR families, and slaughter the passover victim.30
  22. And YOU must take a bunch of hyssop31 and dip[p] it into the blood in a basin and strike upon the upper part of the doorway and upon the two doorposts some of the blood that is in the basin; and none of YOU should go out of the entrance of his house until morning.
  23. Then when Jehovah does pass through to plague the Egyptians and does see the blood upon the upper part of the doorway and upon the two doorposts, Jehovah will certainly pass over the entrance, and he will not allow the ruination to enter into YOUR houses to plague YOU.32
  24. ¶ “And YOU must keep this thing as a regulation33 for you and your sons to time indefinite.34
  25. And it must occur that when YOU come into the land that Jehovah will give YOU, just as he has stated, then YOU must keep this service.[q]35
  26. And it must occur that when YOUR sons say to YOU, ‘What does this service mean to YOU?’36
  27. then YOU must say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the passover to Jehovah,37 who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when he plagued the Egyptians, but he delivered our houses.’”
    ¶ Then the people bowed low and prostrated themselves.38
  28. Subsequently the sons of Israel went and did just as Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron.39 They did just so.
  29. ¶ And it came about that at midnight Jehovah struck every firstborn in the land of Egypt,40 from the firstborn of Pharʹaoh sitting on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the prison hole,[r] and every firstborn of beast.41
  30. Then Pharʹaoh got up at night, he and all his servants and all [other] Egyptians; and there began arising a great outcry among the Egyptians,42 because there was not a house where there was not one dead.
  31. At once he called43 Moses and Aaron by night and said: “Get up, get out from the midst of my people, both YOU and the [other] sons of Israel, and go, serve Jehovah, just as YOU have stated.44
  32. Take both YOUR flocks and YOUR herds, just as YOU have stated,45 and go. Also, YOU must bless me besides.”
  33. ¶ And the Egyptians began to urge the people in order to send them away quickly46 out of the land, “because,” they said, “we are all as good as dead!”47
  34. Consequently the people carried their flour dough before it was leavened, with their kneading troughs wrapped up in their mantles upon their shoulder.
  35. And the sons of Israel did according to the word of Moses in that they went asking from the Egyptians articles of silver and articles of gold and mantles.48
  36. And Jehovah gave the people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians,49 so that these granted them what was asked;50 and they stripped the Egyptians.51
  37. ¶ And the sons of Israel proceeded to depart from Ramʹe·ses52 for Sucʹcoth,53 to the number of six hundred thousand able-bodied men on foot, besides little ones.54
  38. And a vast mixed company[s]55 also went up with them, as well as flocks and herds, a very numerous stock of animals.
  39. And they began to bake the flour dough that they had brought out from Egypt into round cakes, unfermented cakes, because it had not leavened, for they had been driven out of Egypt and had not been able to linger and too they had not prepared any provisions for themselves.56
  40. ¶ And the dwelling of the sons of Israel,[t] who had dwelt[u]57 in Egypt,58 was four hundred and thirty years.59
  41. And it came about at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, it even came about on this very day that all the armies of Jehovah went out of the land of Egypt.60
  42. It is a night for observance with regard to Jehovah for bringing them out of the land of Egypt. With regard to Jehovah this night is one for observance on the part of all the sons of Israel throughout their generations.61
  43. ¶ And Jehovah went on to say to Moses and Aaron: “This is the statute of the passover:62 No foreigner[v] may eat of it.63
  44. But where there is any slave man purchased with money, you must circumcise him.64 Then first he may share in eating it.
  45. A settler[w] and a hired laborer may not eat of it.
  46. In one house it is to be eaten. You must not take any of the flesh out of the house to some place outside. And YOU must not break a bone in it.65
  47. All the assembly of Israel are to celebrate it.66
  48. And in case an alien resident resides as an alien with you and he will actually celebrate the passover to Jehovah, let there be a circumcising[x] of every male of his.67 First then he may come near to celebrate it; and he must become like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.
  49. One law is to exist for the native and for the alien resident who is residing as an alien in YOUR midst.”68
  50. ¶ So all the sons of Israel did just as Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron. They did just so.69
  51. And it came about on this very day that Jehovah brought the sons of Israel together with their armies70 out of the land of Egypt.

FOOTNOTES

  1. ^ “Sheep.” Heb., seh; Gr., proʹba·ton; Lat., aʹgnum, “lamb.”
  2. ^ Or, “persons.” Heb., nepha·shothʹ, pl.; Gr., psy·khonʹ, pl.
  3. ^ Or, “the male lambs.”
  4. ^ “Between the two evenings.” According to some scholars, as well as the Karaite Jews and Samaritans, this is the time between sunset and actual darkness. The Pharisees and the Rabbinists considered it otherwise: the first evening when the sun began to descend and the second evening the actual sunset.
  5. ^ Lit., “give.”
  6. ^ “The . . . doorposts.” Heb., ham·mezu·zothʹ. The modern Jewish term “mezuzah” denotes a rectangular piece of parchment containing the Heb. text of De 6:4-9 and De 11:13-21. The parchment is placed in a small case and affixed in a slanting position on the right-hand doorpost of the dwellings of Orthodox Jews. See De 6:9 ftn.
  7. ^ Or, “and the lintel.”
  8. ^ Or, “yeastless bread; unleavened bread.”
  9. ^ Or, “half done.”
  10. ^ Lit., “an overleaping; a passing over.” Heb., peʹsach.
  11. ^ “And on all the gods of.” Heb., u·vekhol-ʼelo·hehʹ, pl. to denote more than one Egyptian god.
  12. ^ Or, “celebrate it as Jehovah’s festival.”
  13. ^ Or, “yeast; leaven.”
  14. ^ Or, “convocation.”
  15. ^ Or, “take for yourselves sheep and goats.”
  16. ^ Or, “immerse; baptize.” Gr., baʹpsan·tes.
  17. ^ Or, “feature of worship.” Heb., ha·ʽavo·dhahʹ; Gr., la·treiʹan, “sacred service.” Compare 3:12 ftn.
  18. ^ Or, “the penitentiary.” Lit., “the house of the cistern.” See Ge 40:15 ftn.
  19. ^ Or, “And many aliens (strangers).”
  20. ^ Sam adds, “and their fathers.”
  21. ^ “Who had dwelt.” In Heb. this verb is pl. The relative pronoun ʼasherʹ, “who,” can apply to the “sons of Israel” rather than to the “dwelling.” LXX, “But the dwelling of the sons of Israel which they [LXXA adds “and their fathers”] dwelt in the land of Egypt and in the land of Canaan [was] four hundred and thirty years long”; Sam, “in the land of Canaan and in the land of Egypt.” Likewise Josephus wrote in Jewish Antiquities, Book II, chapter 15, ¶2: “They left Egypt in the month of Xanthicus [the Macedonian month equated by Josephus with the month Nisan], on the fifteenth by lunar reckoning, 430 years after the coming of our forefather Abraham to Canaan.” (Loeb Classical Library, by H. Thackeray, 1967, p. 305) The sons of Israel went out of the land of Egypt on the 15th day of the first month. See Ex 12:37; Nu 33:3, 5. SamLXX and Josephus show that the 430 years are counted from the time Abraham entered the land of Canaan until the time the Israelites went out of Egypt. See Ga 3:17.
  22. ^ Lit., “son of a foreign (country).”
  23. ^ Or, “stranger; immigrant.”
  24. ^ In Heb. this is a verb in the infinitive absolute, indefinite as to time and impersonal.

REFERENCES

  1. ^ Ex 13:4; 23:15; 34:18; Nu 28:16; De 16:1; Es 3:7
  2. ^ Ge 22:8; Jn 1:29; 1Co 5:7; Re 5:6; 7:10
  3. ^ Le 22:19; De 17:1; Ml 1:14; Heb 7:26; 9:14; 1Pe 1:19
  4. ^ Le 1:3; 23:12
  5. ^ Nu 28:16; Eze 45:21
  6. ^ Ex 12:18; 16:12; Le 23:5; Nu 9:3; De 16:6
  7. ^ 1Co 5:7; Eph 1:7; Heb 11:28; 1Pe 1:2
  8. ^ De 16:7; Mt 26:17
  9. ^ Ex 13:3; 34:25; De 16:3; 1Co 5:8
  10. ^ Ex 1:14; Nu 9:11
  11. ^ Le 7:15; 22:30; De 16:4
  12. ^ Lu 12:35; Eph 6:14; 1Pe 1:13
  13. ^ Eph 6:15
  14. ^ Nu 28:16; De 16:6
  15. ^ Ex 11:4; Am 5:17
  16. ^ Ex 11:5; 12:29
  17. ^ Nu 33:4; Is 19:1; Je 43:13; Zp 2:11
  18. ^ 1Co 8:6
  19. ^ Mt 20:28; Ro 5:9; Heb 11:28; 1Jo 1:7
  20. ^ Ex 23:15; Le 23:6
  21. ^ Nu 9:13
  22. ^ Le 23:4
  23. ^ Le 23:8
  24. ^ Mt 12:1
  25. ^ Le 23:6; Lu 22:1; 1Co 5:8
  26. ^ Le 23:5, 6; Eze 45:21
  27. ^ Ex 12:49; Nu 9:14; De 16:3; 1Co 5:7
  28. ^ Nu 9:13
  29. ^ Ex 3:16; 19:7; Nu 11:16
  30. ^ Nu 9:2; Jos 5:10; 2Ki 23:21; 2Ch 35:6; Ezr 6:20; Lu 22:7
  31. ^ Le 14:6; Ps 51:7; Heb 9:19
  32. ^ Is 37:36; Eze 9:6; Heb 11:28
  33. ^ Le 23:4; De 16:3
  34. ^ Eph 2:15; Col 2:14; Heb 8:13
  35. ^ Jos 5:10; Ps 105:45
  36. ^ Ex 13:8; De 6:7; Jos 4:6; Ps 78:6; 145:4; Eph 6:4
  37. ^ Ex 34:25; De 16:2; 1Co 5:7
  38. ^ Ex 4:31; Ne 8:6
  39. ^ Heb 11:28
  40. ^ Ge 15:14; Nu 33:4; Ps 78:51; 105:36; 136:10; Heb 11:28
  41. ^ Ex 11:5; Nu 3:13; Ps 135:8
  42. ^ Ex 11:6
  43. ^ Ex 10:29
  44. ^ Ex 3:20; 6:1; 10:9; Ps 105:38
  45. ^ Ex 10:26
  46. ^ Ex 12:11
  47. ^ Ge 20:3; Ex 10:7; Nu 17:12
  48. ^ Ge 15:14; Ex 3:21; 11:2; Ps 105:37
  49. ^ Ex 11:3; Pr 16:7
  50. ^ De 15:15
  51. ^ Ex 3:22
  52. ^ Ge 47:11; Ex 1:11
  53. ^ Nu 33:5
  54. ^ Ge 12:2; 15:5; 46:3; Ex 1:7; 38:26; Nu 2:32; 11:21
  55. ^ Nu 11:4; Zc 8:23
  56. ^ Ex 6:1; 11:1; 12:31
  57. ^ Ge 12:4; 21:5; 25:26; 47:9
  58. ^ Ge 46:3; 47:27; Ac 13:17
  59. ^ Ge 15:13; Ac 7:6; Ga 3:17
  60. ^ Ex 7:4
  61. ^ Ex 12:14; De 16:1
  62. ^ Le 23:5; Nu 9:14; De 16:2; Jos 5:10; Mr 14:1; 1Co 5:7
  63. ^ Le 22:10; Eph 2:12
  64. ^ Ge 17:12, 23
  65. ^ Nu 9:12; Ps 34:20; Jn 19:33, 36
  66. ^ Nu 9:14
  67. ^ Ge 17:12
  68. ^ Le 24:22; Nu 15:16; Ga 3:28; Col 3:11
  69. ^ Ex 7:6; 39:32; De 12:32
  70. ^ Ex 6:26; 13:18

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Comments

  1. David yakubuDavid yakubu
    Oct 29, 2022 08:05 GMT

    When i do read some comments and seeing that its the same people that are supposed to be called believers but are talking ill of other denominations, it hurts. Let us all remember that We should judge not

    1. jonas smithjonas smith
      Apr 23, 2023 02:57 GMT

      The bible tells us to test the spirits. Satan disguises himself as angel of light. So yes some denomination are not teaching the truth. You are responsible for judging which ones are not. You have to judge the truth at all times. this is what the bible teaches

  2. THTH
    Apr 7, 2021 00:20 GMT

    The NWT is a very good translation. Dr. Jason David BeDuhn PhD attests to that in his book Truth in Translation. drive.google.com/...5p16melHzg8/view

    1. James LernerJames Lerner
      Jul 20, 2024 09:48 GMT

      The NWT is Satanic filth to its very core.

      The JW Cult is Satanic to its very core.

      Praise Yahweh I will never be a victim of JW brainwashing. If I burn in Hell for eternity or I am ultimately annihilated so be it

      May Yahweh's curse rest on the Watchtower Society and its Satanic leadership

    2. jim mcleodjim mcleod
      Aug 22, 2021 06:16 GMT

      NWT is a false translation that takes away from the deity of Jesus !

  3. SlightlyChaoticSlightlyChaotic
    Jan 30, 2021 16:33 GMT

    Thank you for taking the time to provide this service. I like seeing the NASB on your web page in the same format as I read on paper. On other sites, the text area is smaller, and so I have to keep scrolling down to read and sometimes I lose the context. So I really appreciate the format.

    As far as the NWT, you are certainly free to do whatever you think best with your own web pages. I'd suggest that you make a note anytime you have a translation that is associated with only one denomination or church, for example:
    New World Translation (Jehovah's Witness version).

    In Jesus' parable of the wheat and the tares. the main idea seems to be that you can't easily distinguish between God's people and not-God's people on this earth, so our Lord's response is to wait until they are shown to be the kind of people they are inside. But the NWT seems like false teaching to me. So I think the warning passages from Jesus' apostles are more applicable, as in 2 Peter 3:15-16, when he talks about Paul's writings:
    "There are some things in them that are hard to understand, which the ignorant and unstable twist to their own destruction, as they do the other Scriptures."
    And we also have the positive exhortations, as in 2 Timothy 2:15:
    "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth."

    1. BroderickBroderick
      Jan 31, 2021 00:57 GMT

      Your suggestion regarding the denominational flagging is duly noted. But I can’t help but wonder, wouldn’t a Catholic also want “Protestant versions” marked as well?

      As for the parable, I’m pretty sure the slaves were convinced in their own minds that they could tell the tares from the wheat. After all, aren’t they the ones who identified the problem in the first place? But the master obviously thought otherwise.

      Furthermore, even at the time when Jesus himself was walking the earth, not everybody who claimed fellowship actually followed him causing John to inquire at Mark 9:39, “Teacher, we saw someone casting out demons in Your name, and we tried to prevent him because he was not following us.” But Jesus said, “Do not hinder him . . . for he who is not against us is for us.”

  4. Joshua HarderJoshua Harder
    Dec 11, 2020 17:48 GMT

    Hello, question.. why have you included the NWT with other legitimate bible translations? Or why have you not atleast included a warning to readers? Don't you fear that someone could be influenced by the Watchtower's intentional heresies? Thank you.

    1. KevinKevin
      Jul 11, 2021 17:45 GMT

      en.m.wikipedia.org/..._Holy_Scriptures

      See the section critical review

    2. ChrisChris
      Jan 8, 2021 07:15 GMT

      Please site these intentional heresies. I am well versed in the watch tower outline and agree they are in many ways incorrect but i also bet i can point many out from EVERY established or main denomination. There is much to learn from them all as one who drinks milk?

      Judge not lest ye be judged, that is not to pass judgement on you either brother.

      I debate with scripture. I don't hold it to be true that Michael is Y'Shua HaMeshiach but I also firmly hold it to be true that our G-d and Heavenly Father are not the word encarnate and only begotten son.

      I love not seeing "lord" which i relate to baal. I feel the catholic church is a satanic establishment and I am aware a freemason started the hovies but there are evil in high places and our fight is also with principalities.

      What i'm saying is that in my darkest hours, those two were some of if not the only ones who would bring a Bible and eucharist and pray with me.

      We all fall short of the glory of G-d.

      Don't forget the NWT was recognized as the most accurate translation on Jeopardy.

      Lastly, this is different I noted than the NWT i have read and am very familiar with. Pull up the watchtower page and compare. I truly look forward to getting this one!

  5. julietjuliet
    Aug 17, 2022 09:36 GMT

    the sky is blue

  6. mercymercy
    Aug 12, 2022 21:23 GMT

    i am Mercy, the sky is blue what else do you need

    1. mercymercy
      Aug 12, 2022 21:25 GMT

      i am so sorry, it was a big mistake

  7. God is able to do all thingsGod is able to do all things
    May 17, 2021 17:59 GMT

    Jesus how much love calling yo name

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