Liber Exodus

Exodus, chapter 12, Vulgate and King James Version

Chapter 12 Vulgate

   1 Dixit Dominus ad Moysen et Aaron in terra Aegypti:
   2 "Mensis iste vobis principium mensium, primus erit in mensibus anni.
   3 Loquimini ad universum coetum filiorum Israel et dicite eis: Decima die mensis huius tollat unusquisque agnum per familias et domos suas.
   4 Sin autem minor est numerus, ut sufficere possit ad vescendum agnum, assumet vicinum suum, qui iunctus est domui suae, iuxta numerum animarum, quae sufficere possunt ad esum agni.
   5 Erit autem vobis agnus absque macula, masculus, anniculus; quem de agnis vel haedis tolletis
   6 et servabitis eum usque ad quartam decimam diem mensis huius; immolabitque eum universa congregatio filiorum Israel ad vesperam.
   7 Et sument de sanguine eius ac ponent super utrumque postem et in superliminaribus domorum, in quibus comedent illum;
   8 et edent carnes nocte illa assas igni et azymos panes cum lactucis amaris.
   9 Non comedetis ex eo crudum quid nec coctum aqua, sed tantum assum igni; caput cum pedibus eius et intestinis vorabitis.
   10 Nec remanebit quidquam ex eo usque mane; si quid residuum fuerit, igne comburetis.
   11 Sic autem comedetis illum: renes vestros accingetis, calceamenta habebitis in pedibus, tenentes baculos in manibus, et comedetis festinanter; est enim Pascha (id est Transitus) Domini!
   12 Et transibo per terram Aegypti nocte illa percutiamque omne primogenitum in terra Aegypti ab homine usque ad pecus; et in cunctis diis Aegypti faciam iudicia, ego Dominus.
   13 Erit autem sanguis vobis in signum in aedibus, in quibus eritis; et videbo sanguinem et transibo vos, nec erit in vobis plaga disperdens, quando percussero terram Aegypti.
   14 Habebitis autem hanc diem in monumentum et celebrabitis eam sollemnem Domino in generationibus vestris cultu sempiterno.
   15 Septem diebus azyma comedetis. Iam in die primo non erit fermentum in domibus vestris; quicumque comederit fermentatum, a primo die usque ad diem septimum, peribit anima illa de Israel.
   16 Dies prima erit sancta atque sollemnis, et dies septima eadem festivitate venerabilis. Nihil operis facietis in eis, exceptis his, quae ad vescendum pertinent.
   17 Et observabitis azyma, in eadem enim ipsa die eduxi exercitum vestrum de terra Aegypti; et custodietis diem istum in generationes vestras ritu perpetuo.
   18 Primo mense, quarta decima die mensis ad vesperam comedetis azyma; usque ad diem vicesimam primam eiusdem mensis ad vesperam.
   19 Septem diebus fermentum non invenietur in domibus vestris. Qui comederit fermentatum, peribit anima eius de coetu Israel, tam de advenis quam de indigenis terrae.
   20 Omne fermentatum non comedetis; in cunctis habitaculis vestris edetis azyma"
   21 Vocavit autem Moyses omnes seniores filiorum Israel et dixit ad eos: "Ite tollentes animal per familias vestras et immolate Pascha.
   22 Fasciculumque hyssopi tingite in sanguine, qui est in pelvi, et aspergite ex eo superliminare et utrumque postem. Nullus vestrum egrediatur ostium domus suae usque mane.
   23 Transibit enim Dominus percutiens Aegyptios; cumque viderit sanguinem in superliminari et in utroque poste, transcendet ostium et non sinet percussorem ingredi domos vestras et laedere.
   24 Custodite verbum istud legitimum tibi et filiis tuis usque in aeternum.
   25 Cumque introieritis terram, quam Dominus daturus est vobis, ut pollicitus est, observabitis caeremonias istas;
   26 et, cum dixerint vobis filii vestri: "Quae est ista religio?",
   27 dicetis eis: "Victima Paschae Domino est, quando transivit super domos filiorum Israel in Aegypto percutiens Aegyptios et domos nostras liberans"" Incurvatusque populus adoravit;
   28 et egressi filii Israel fecerunt, sicut praeceperat Dominus Moysi et Aaron.
   29 Factum est autem in noctis medio, percussit Dominus omne primogenitum in terra Aegypti, a primogenito pharaonis, qui in solio eius sedebat, usque ad primogenitum captivi, qui erat in carcere, et omne primogenitum iumentorum.
   30 Surrexitque pharao nocte et omnes servi eius cunctaque Aegyptus, et ortus est clamor magnus in Aegypto, neque enim erat domus, in qua non iaceret mortuus.
   31 Vocatisque pharao Moyse et Aaron nocte, ait: "Surgite, egredimini a populo meo, vos et filii Israel; ite, immolate Domino, sicut dicitis.
   32 Oves vestras et armenta assumite, ut petieratis, et abeuntes benedicite mihi"
   33 Urgebantque Aegyptii populum de terra exire velociter dicentes: "Omnes moriemur"
   34 Tulit igitur populus conspersam farinam, antequam fermentaretur; et ligans pistrina in palliis suis posuit super umeros suos.
   35 Feceruntque filii Israel, sicut praeceperat Moyses, et petierunt ab Aegyptiis vasa argentea et aurea vestemque plurimam.
   36 Dominus autem dedit gratiam populo coram Aegyptiis, ut commodarent eis; et spoliaverunt Aegyptios.
   37 Profectique sunt filii Israel de Ramesse in Succoth, sescenta fere milia peditum virorum absque parvulis.
   38 Sed et vulgus promiscuum innumerabile ascendit cum eis, oves et armenta, animantia multa nimis.
   39 Coxeruntque farinam, quam dudum de Aegypto conspersam tulerant, et fecerunt subcinericios panes azymos; neque enim poterant fermentari, cogentibus exire Aegyptiis et nullam facere sinentibus moram; nec pulmenti quidquam occurrerant praeparare.
   40 Habitatio autem filiorum Israel, qua manserant in Aegypto, fuit quadringentorum triginta annorum.
   41 Quibus expletis, eadem die egressus est omnis exercitus Domini de terra Aegypti.
   42 Nox ista vigiliarum Domino, quando eduxit eos de terra Aegypti: hanc observare debent Domino omnes filii Israel in generationibus suis.
   43 Dixitque Dominus ad Moysen et Aaron: "Haec est religio Paschae: Omnis alienigena non comedet ex eo;
   44 omnis autem servus empticius circumcidetur et sic comedet;
   45 advena et mercennarius non edent ex eo.
   46 In una domo comedetur, nec efferetis de carnibus eius foras nec os illius confringetis.
   47 Omnis coetus filiorum Israel faciet illud.
   48 Quod si quis peregrinorum in vestram voluerit transire coloniam et facere Pascha Domini, circumcidetur prius omne masculinum eius, et tunc rite celebrabit eritque sicut indigena terrae; si quis autem circumcisus non fuerit, non vescetur ex eo.
   49 Eadem lex erit indigenae et colono, qui peregrinatur apud vos"
   50 Feceruntque omnes filii Israel, sicut praeceperat Dominus Moysi et Aaron;
   51 et in eadem die eduxit Dominus filios Israel de terra Aegypti per turmas suas.

Source: Bibliorum Sacrorum Editio, Sacrosanti Oecumenici Concilii Vaticani II, Ratione Habita, Iussu Pauli PP. VI Recognita, Auctoritate Ioannis Pauli PP. II Promulgata, Editio Typica Altera

King James Version

   1 And the LORD spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
   2 This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
   3 ¶ Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
   4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
   5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
   6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
   7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
   8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
   9 Eat not of it raw, nor sodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.
   10 And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
   11 ¶ And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD'S passover.
   12 For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.
   13 And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
   14 And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall keep it a feast to the LORD throughout your generations; ye shall keep it a feast by an ordinance for ever.
   15 Seven days shall ye eat unleavened bread; even the first day ye shall put away leaven out of your houses: for whosoever eateth leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.
   16 And in the first day there shall be an holy convocation, and in the seventh day there shall be an holy convocation to you; no manner of work shall be done in them, save that which every man must eat, that only may be done of you.
   17 And ye shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this selfsame day have I brought your armies out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall ye observe this day in your generations by an ordinance for ever.
   18 ¶ In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at even, ye shall eat unleavened bread, until the one and twentieth day of the month at even.
   19 Seven days shall there be no leaven found in your houses: for whosoever eateth that which is leavened, even that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a stranger, or born in the land.
   20 Ye shall eat nothing leavened; in all your habitations shall ye eat unleavened bread.
   21 ¶ Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said unto them, Draw out and take you a lamb according to your families, and kill the passover.
   22 And ye shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the bason, and strike the lintel and the two side posts with the blood that is in the bason; and none of you shall go out at the door of his house until the morning.
   23 For the LORD will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when he seeth the blood upon the lintel, and on the two side posts, the LORD will pass over the door, and will not suffer the destroyer to come in unto your houses to smite you.
   24 And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
   25 And it shall come to pass, when ye be come to the land which the LORD will give you, according as he hath promised, that ye shall keep this service.
   26 And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto you, What mean ye by this service?
   27 That ye shall say, It is the sacrifice of the LORD'S passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and delivered our houses. And the people bowed the head and worshipped.
   28 And the children of Israel went away, and did as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
   29 ¶ And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.
   30 And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt; for there was not a house where there was not one dead.
   31 ¶ And he called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, Rise up, and get you forth from among my people, both ye and the children of Israel; and go, serve the LORD, as ye have said.
   32 Also take your flocks and your herds, as ye have said, and be gone; and bless me also.
   33 And the Egyptians were urgent upon the people, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We be all dead men.
   34 And the people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneadingtroughs being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.
   35 And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they borrowed of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and raiment:
   36 And the LORD gave the people favour in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they lent unto them such things as they required. And they spoiled the Egyptians.
   37 ¶ And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot that were men, beside children.
   38 And a mixed multitude went up also with them; and flocks, and herds, even very much cattle.
   39 And they baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt, for it was not leavened; because they were thrust out of Egypt, and could not tarry, neither had they prepared for themselves any victual.
   40 ¶ Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.
   41 And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
   42 It is a night to be much observed unto the LORD for bringing them out from the land of Egypt: this is that night of the LORD to be observed of all the children of Israel in their generations.
   43 ¶ And the LORD said unto Moses and Aaron, This is the ordinance of the passover: There shall no stranger eat thereof:
   44 But every man's servant that is bought for money, when thou hast circumcised him, then shall he eat thereof.
   45 A foreigner and an hired servant shall not eat thereof.
   46 In one house shall it be eaten; thou shalt not carry forth ought of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall ye break a bone thereof.
   47 All the congregation of Israel shall keep it.
   48 And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
   49 One law shall be to him that is homeborn, and unto the stranger that sojourneth among you.
   50 Thus did all the children of Israel; as the LORD commanded Moses and Aaron, so did they.
   51 And it came to pass the selfsame day, that the LORD did bring the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their armies.