38. Many other people went up with them, and also large droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.
39. With the dough the Israelites had brought from Egypt, they baked loaves of unleavened bread. The dough was without yeast because they had been driven out of Egypt and did not have time to prepare food for themselves.
40. Now the length of time the Israelite people lived in Egypt was 430 years.
41. At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the Lord’s divisions left Egypt.
42. Because the Lord kept vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honour the Lord for the generations to come.
43. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron, ‘These are the regulations for the Passover meal:‘No foreigner may eat it.
44. Any slave you have bought may eat it after you have circumcised him,
45. but a temporary resident or a hired worker may not eat it.
46. ‘It must be eaten inside the house; take none of the meat outside the house. Do not break any of the bones.