27. You are to say, ‘It is the sacrifice of Adonai’s Passover, because He passed over the houses of Bnei-Yisrael in Egypt, when He struck down the Egyptians, but spared our households.’” So the people bowed their heads and worshipped.
28. Then Bnei-Yisrael went and did it. They did just as Adonai had commanded Moses and Aaron.
29. So it came about at midnight that Adonai struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh sitting on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn cattle.
30. Then Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was loud wailing in Egypt. For there was not a house where someone was not dead.
31. So he called for Moses and Aaron at night and said, “Rise up, go out from my people, both you and Bnei-Yisrael, go, serve Adonai as you have said.
32. Take your flocks and your herds, as you said, and be gone! But bless me, too.”
33. Now the Egyptians urged the people, sending them out of the land quickly, for they thought, “We will all be dead!”
34. So the people took their dough before it was leavened, with their kneading bowls bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.
35. So Bnei-Yisrael acted according to the word of Moses. They asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold, and for clothing.
36. Adonai gave the people favor in the eyes of the Egyptians and let them have what they asked for. So they plundered the Egyptians.
37. Then Bnei-Yisrael journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about 600,000 men on foot, as well as children.
38. Also a mixed multitude went up with them, along with the flocks, herds and heavy livestock.
39. They had baked matzot cakes from the dough that they brought out of Egypt. It had no hametz, because they were thrust out of Egypt and could not delay, so they had not made provisions for themselves.
40. Now the time that Bnei-Yisrael lived in Egypt was 430 years.
41. So it happened at the end of 430 years, to the very day, that all the armies of Adonai went out from the land of Egypt.
42. It was a night of watching for Adonai to bring them out of the land of Egypt. This same night is a night of vigil for Adonai, for all Bnei-Yisrael throughout their generations.
43. Then Adonai said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the ordinance of the Passover. No foreigner may eat it,
44. but every man’s servant that is bought for money, after you have circumcised him, may eat it.
45. Nor should a visitor or hired servant eat it.