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Exodus 12:39-51 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

39. And they baked the bread, which a little while ago they had taken out of Egypt as dough. And they made unleavened bread baked under ashes. For it was not able to be leavened, with the Egyptians compelling them to leave and not permitting them to cause any delay. Neither did they have occasion to prepare any meat.

40. Now the habitation of the sons of Israel, while they remained in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.

41. Having been completed, on the same day all the army of the Lord departed from the land of Egypt.

42. This night is a worthy observance of the Lord, when he led them out of the land of Egypt. This all the sons of Israel must observe in their generations.

43. And the Lord said to Moses and to Aaron: "This is the religious observance of the Passover. No foreigner shall eat from it.

44. But every bought servant shall be circumcised, and so he may eat from it.

45. The newcomer and the hired hand shall not eat from it.

46. In one house it shall be eaten; you shall not carry its flesh outside, nor shall you break its bone.

47. The entire assembly of the sons of Israel shall do this.

48. And if any sojourner will be willing to cross over into your settlement, and to keep the Passover of the Lord, all his males shall first be circumcised, and then he shall celebrate the rite. And he shall be just like a native of the land. But if any man is not circumcised, he shall not eat from it.

49. The law shall be the same for the native born and for the settler who sojourns with you."

50. And all the sons of Israel did just as the Lord had instructed Moses and Aaron.

51. And on the same day, the Lord led the sons of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their companies.

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