and said to them, Take a lamb for each of your families, and kill it for the passover, 25. And take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood in a ba son, and sprinkle the lintel and the two door-posts. with it, and none of you shall go out of the door of his house till the morning. 26. For the Eternal will make the plague pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel and side posts, he will pass by the door and not suf fer the destroyer to come into your houses. 27. You and your posterity shall observe this ordinance perpetually.

28. When ye are come to the land which the Eternal will give you according to his promise; 29. And when your posterity shall ask what you mean by this service? 30. Ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord's passover, who passed over the Israelites' houses in Egypt when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered us. Then the people bowed their heads, and worshipped; 31. And departed, and did as the Eternal commanded Moses and Aaron.

CHAP. XII.

THE FIRST-BORN SLAIN.

AND at midnight the Eternal smote all the firstborn in Egypt, from that of the king on the throne to the lowest, and those of all the cattle.

2. Then Pharaoh and all his servants, and all the Egyptians, rose, and made a great cry; for there was one dead in every house.

3. Then the king called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Depart quickly with all the Israelites; go serve the Eternal as ye have spoken. 4. Take your flocks, and herds, as ye have said, depart, and bless me also. 5. Now the Egyptians urged them to depart speedily; for they said, We will all be destroyed.

6. Then the people took the remains of their yet

unleavened dough, and bound it up with their clothes in their kneading-troughs upon their shoulders. 7. Now the Israelites did as Moses had said; they asked of the Egyptians golden and silver vessels and garments. 8. And the Eternal made his people obtain the Egyptians' favour, so that they granted them what they asked.

9. Then the Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, being about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides women and children. 10. And a mixed multitude accompanied them with flocks and herds, even very much cattle. 11. And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they had brought out of Egypt, it being unleavened, as they were pressed to go out and could not delay, nei ther had they prepared any victuals for themselves.

12. The Hebrews' sojourning from the call of Abraham to the going out of Egypt was four hundred and thirty years. 13. At the end of which, on the same day, all the Lord's host went out of it. 14. For delivering them from Egypt, that night is to be observed as a vigil to the Eternal, by all the Israelites, in all succeeding ages.

15. The Eternal said also to Moses and Aaron, The law of the passover is, that no stranger shall eat of it. 15. But every bond-servant procured by mo ney, when circumcised, shall eat. 17. A sojourner, and an hired servant, who are uncircumcised, shall not eat of it. 18. It shall be all eaten in one house, none of it shall be carried out of the house, and not a bone of it shall be broken. 19. All the congrega tion of Israel shall eat of it. 20. And if any stran ger sojourn among you, and would keep this festival to the Eternal, their males must first be circumcised, and they shall be as natives. 21. The law shall be the same for the native and the stranger.

22. Then all the Israelites did as the Eternal commanded Moses and Aaron. 23. The same day the E

ternal brought the hosts of the Israelites out of E

gypt.

CHAP. XIII.

THE ISRAELITES EXIT FROM EGYPT.

A. C. CIR. 1491.

THE Eternal said then to Moses, 2. Set apart for my service all the first-born that are males, both of -man and beast.

3. Now Moses said to the people, Remember to eat no leaven in these days of the month Abib, wherein ye were delivered from the Egyptians bondage, 4. By the Eternal's mighty power. 5. And when the Eternal shall bring you into Canaan, which floweth with milk and honey, which he promised to your fathers to give you, ye shall keep this ordinance in this month, yearly,6.To eat unleavened bread seven days; the first and seventh shall be a special festival to the Eternal. 7. No leaven shall be in all thy quar8. And thou shall tell thy children, that thou dost so on account of what the Eternal did in delivering thee from Egypt. 9, 10. And these observances shall be a memorial to thee like a signet on thine hand, or a frontlet on thy forehead, that thou mayest speak of the Eternal's law, who delivered thee from Egypt by his almighty power.

ters.

11. And when the Eternal hath brought thee into Canaan, as he promised to thee in thy fathers to give it thee, 12. Thou shalt set apart all the firstborn of man and beast that are males to the Eternal. 13. The firstlings of clean tame beasts shall be offered in sacrifice; but thou shalt redeem the firstlings of unclean beasts, as an ass, with a lamb, or else thou shalt destroy it; thou shalt also redeem the first-born of man. 14. And in all your generations, when your children ask, Why do ye this? 15. You shall tell them, It is because the Eternal saved the first-born of Israel in Egypt, when those of the E. gyptians were destroyed; and delivered you by his

mighty power from Egyptian bondage. 16. It shall be a memorial to thee, like a signet, and a frontlet, of the Eternal's delivering theé by his power from Egypt.

17. And after Pharaoh let the people go, God led them not the way through the Philistines' land, though nearest, lest by seeing much war, they should retreat and return to Egypt; 18. But he led them about through the wilderness of the Weedy Sea. They marched from Egypt in regular order.

19. And Moses took Joseph's bones with him; for he had strictly charged the Israelites to carry his bones away with them; having foretold them, that God would visit them, and bring them back to Ca

naan.

20. And they journeyed from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, on the side of the wilderness.

21. And the Eternal led them in the way by a cloud, in the form of a pillar, in the day, and a fire, in the form of a pillar, by night, going before them, as the symbol of his presence, to shade them from the heat in the day, and to give them light by night; 22. And thus accompanied them through the wil. derness.

CHAP. XIV.

THE PASSAGE OF THE RED SEA.

Now the Eternal said to Moses, 2. Tell the Israelites to turn, and encamp before Pihahiroth, between Migdol and the sea, opposite to Balzephon; 3. For Pharaoh will say, They are entangled in the fand, and shut in by the wilderness: 4. And I will leave Pharaoh to his hardness of heart, and he will pursue them; and I will be honoured, in executing justice on Pharaoh and his hosts, that the Egypti ans may know that I am the Eternal. Then the Hebrews did as Moses said.

5. Now it was told the king, that the Israelites

fed: and the hearts of him and of his servants were turned against them; and they said, Why have we let Israel go from serving us. 6. So he prepared all his chariots, with his people; 7. Six hundred choice chariots, and captains over each of them.

8. And they pursued the Israelites, who departed in a regal manner. 9. All Pharaoh's chariots, horses, horsemen, and army, pursued them, and overtook them, encamping by the sea, at Pihahiroth, opposite Baalzephon.

10. Now when Pharaoh came near the Israelites, they observed him, and the Egyptians pursuing them; and they feared greatly, and prayed to the Eternal. 11. And said to Moses, Was it because there were no graves in Egypt, that thou hast brought us out to die in the wilderness? why hast thou done this? 12. Did we not tell thee in Egypt, to let us serve the Egyptians, rather than to die in the wilderness?

13. But Moses said to them, Fear not, await, and see the Eternal's salvation wrought for you this day: the Egyptians whom ye see to-day, ye shall see no more. 14. The Eternal shall fight for you, and ye shall be quiet.

15. Then the Eternal said to Moses, Why criest thou to me? tell the Israelites to go forward. 16. But stretch out thine hand with thy rod toward the sea, and it shall be divided, and the Israelites shall walk through the midst of its channel, on dry ground. 17. And I will leave the Egyptians to the hardness of their hearts, and they shall pursue them into the sea, and I will honour my justice on Pharaoh, with all his host: 18. Then they shall know that I am the Eternal.

19. Then the angel of God, who went before Israel's camp, removed, and went behind them; the cloudy pillar went also from before them, and stood behind them: 20. It came between the Egyptians' camp, and the Israelites; the side of it next those