Holman Christian Standard Bible

Exodus 12:34-44 Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

34. So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls wrapped up in their clothes on their shoulders.

35. The Israelites acted on Moses’ word and asked the Egyptians for silver and gold jewelry and for clothing.

36. And the Lord gave the people such favor in the Egyptians’ sight that they gave them what they requested. In this way they plundered the Egyptians.

37. The Israelites traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about 600,000 soldiers on foot, besides their families.

38. An ethnically diverse crowd also went up with them, along with a huge number of livestock, both flocks and herds.

39. The people baked the dough they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves, since it had no yeast; for when they had been driven out of Egypt they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves.

40. The time that the Israelites lived in Egypt was 430 years.

41. At the end of 430 years, on that same day, all the Lord’s divisions went out from the land of Egypt.

42. It was a night of vigil in honor of the Lord, because He would bring them out of the land of Egypt. This same night is in honor of the Lord, a night vigil for all the Israelites throughout their generations.

43. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner may eat it.

44. But any slave a man has purchased may eat it, after you have circumcised him.