29. And so at midnight the Lord struck down every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh sitting on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn of the animals.
30. Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was loud wailing throughout Egypt, for there was not a house without its dead.
31. During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Leave my people at once, you and the Israelites! Go and serve the Lord as you said.
32. Take your flocks, too, and your herds, as you said, and go; and bless me, too!”
33. The Egyptians, in a hurry to send them away from the land, urged the people on, for they said, “All of us will die!”
34. The people, therefore, took their dough before it was leavened, in their kneading bowls wrapped in their cloaks on their shoulders.
35. And the Israelites did as Moses had commanded: they asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing.
36. Indeed the Lord had made the Egyptians so well-disposed toward the people that they let them have whatever they asked for. And so they despoiled the Egyptians.
37. The Israelites set out from Rameses for Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, not counting the children.
38. A crowd of mixed ancestry also went up with them, with livestock in great abundance, both flocks and herds.
39. The dough they had brought out of Egypt they baked into unleavened loaves. It was not leavened, because they had been driven out of Egypt and could not wait. They did not even prepare food for the journey.
40. The time the Israelites had stayed in Egypt was four hundred and thirty years.