Common English Bible

Exodus 12:39-46 Common English Bible (CEB)

39. They baked unleavened cakes from the dough they had brought out of Egypt. The dough didn’t rise because they were driven out of Egypt and they couldn’t wait. In fact, they didn’t have time to prepare any food for themselves.

40. The length of time that the Israelites had lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years.

41. At the end of four hundred thirty years, on that precise day, all the Lord’s people in military formation left the land of Egypt.

42. For the Lord, that was a night of intent watching, to bring them out of the land of Egypt. For all Israelites in every generation, this same night is a time of intent watching to honor the Lord.

43. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron: This is the regulation for the Passover. No foreigner may eat it.

44. However, any slave who has been bought may eat it after he’s been circumcised.

45. No temporary foreign resident or day laborer may eat it.

46. It should be eaten in one house. You shouldn’t take any of the meat outside the house, and you shouldn’t break the bones.