Exodus 2:1-10; Exodus 12:31-51

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Exodus 2:1-10

1 A man from the family of Levi took a woman also descended from Levi as his wife.
2 When she conceived and had a son, upon seeing what a fine child he was, she hid him for three months.
3 When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket, coated it with clay and tar, put the child in it and placed it among the reeds on the riverbank.
4 His sister stood at a distance to see what would happen to him.
5 The daughter of Pharaoh came down to bathe in the river while her maids-in-attendance walked along the riverside. Spotting the basket among the reeds, she sent her slave-girl to get it.
6 She opened it and looked inside, and there in front of her was a crying baby boy! Moved with pity, she said, "This must be one of the Hebrews'children."
7 At this point, his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Would you like me to go and find you one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?"
8 Pharaoh's daughter answered, "Yes, go." So the girl went and called the baby's own mother.
9 Pharaoh's daughter told her, "Take this child away, and nurse it for me, and I will pay you for doing it." So the woman took the child and nursed it.
10 Then, when the child had grown some, she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter; and she began to raise him as her son. She called him Moshe [pull out], explaining, "Because I pulled him out of the water."
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.

Exodus 12:31-51

31 He summoned Moshe and Aharon by night and said, "Up and leave my people, both you and the people of Isra'el; and go, serve ADONAI as you said.
32 Take both your flocks and your herds, as you said; and get out of here! But bless me, too."
33 The Egyptians pressed to send the people out of the land quickly, because they said, "Otherwise we'll all be dead!"
34 The people took their dough before it had become leavened and wrapped their kneading bowls in their clothes on their shoulders.
35 The people of Isra'el had done what Moshe had said - they had asked the Egyptians to give them silver and gold jewelry and clothing;
36 and ADONAI had made the Egyptians so favorably disposed toward the people that they had let them have whatever they requested. Thus they plundered the Egyptians.
37 The people of Isra'el traveled from Ra'amses to Sukkot, some six hundred thousand men on foot, not counting children.
38 A mixed crowd also went up with them, as well as livestock in large numbers, both flocks and herds.
39 They baked matzah loaves from the dough they had brought out of Egypt, since it was unleavened; because they had been driven out of Egypt without time to prepare supplies for themselves.
40 The time the people of Isra'el lived in Egypt was 430 years.
41 At the end of 430 years to the day, all the divisions of ADONAI left the land of Egypt.
42 This was a night when ADONAI kept vigil to bring them out of the land of Egypt, and this same night continues to be a night when ADONAI keeps vigil for all the people of Isra'el through all their generations.
43 ADONAI said to Moshe and Aharon, "This is the regulation for the Pesach lamb: no foreigner is to eat it.
44 But if anyone has a slave he bought for money, when you have circumcised him, he may eat it.
45 Neither a traveler nor a hired servant may eat it.
46 It is to be eaten in one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you are not to break any of its bones.
47 The whole community of Isra'el is to keep it.
48 If a foreigner staying with you wants to observe ADONAI's Pesach, all his males must be circumcised. Then he may take part and observe it; he will be like a citizen of the land. But no uncircumcised person is to eat it.
49 The same teaching is to apply equally to the citizen and to the foreigner living among you."
50 All the people of Isra'el did just as ADONAI had ordered Moshe and Aharon.
51 On that very day, ADONAI brought the people of Isra'el out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.
Complete Jewish Bible Copyright 1998 by David H. Stern. Published by Jewish New Testament Publications, Inc. All rights reserved. Used by permission.