Exodus 12

1 Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

1 耶和华在埃及对摩西和亚伦说：

2 “This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.

2 “你们要以这个月为一月，为一年之首。

3 Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must select a lamb for his family, one per household.

3 你要向以色列全体会众宣布，本月的第十日，每家都要预备一只羊羔，一家一只。

4 If the household is too small for a whole lamb, they are to share with the nearest neighbor based on the number of people, and apportion the lamb accordingly.

4 倘若家人太少，吃不了一只，可以跟最近的邻居共享一只，你们要按人数和各人的食量预备羊羔。

5 Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.

5 羊羔必须是毫无残疾、一岁的公绵羊或公山羊。

6 You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.

6 以色列全体会众要把羊留到本月十四日，在黄昏时分宰杀，

7 They are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.

7 然后取点血涂在房子的门框和门楣上，他们要在房子里吃羊肉。

8 They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

8 当晚，你们要用火把羊肉烤熟，与无酵饼和苦菜一起吃。

9 Do not eat any of the meat raw or cooked in boiling water, but only roasted over the fire—its head and legs and inner parts.

9 不可吃生羊肉，也不可煮着吃，要把整只羊，连头带腿和内脏一并烤着吃。

10 Do not leave any of it until morning; before the morning you must burn up any part that is left over.

10 不可把肉留到早晨，留到早晨的肉要烧掉。

11 This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.

11 你们吃的时候，要束腰、穿鞋、手中拿杖，要赶快吃，这是耶和华的逾越节。

12 On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn male, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.

12 “因为那一夜我要巡遍埃及，把境内所有长子和头生的牲畜全都杀掉，也要严惩埃及所有的神明。我是耶和华。

13 The blood on the houses where you are staying will be a sign; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will fall on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

13 涂在你们房屋上的血是一个记号，我见到这血就会越过你们。我击打埃及的时候，那灾祸不会落到你们身上。

14 And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.

14 你们要记住这一天，守为耶和华的节期，作为世代不变的律例。

15 For seven days you must eat unleavened bread. On the first day you are to remove the leaven from your houses. Whoever eats anything leavened from the first day through the seventh must be cut off from Israel.

15 “七天之内你们都要吃无酵饼。第一天，要清除家中所有的酵。任何人若在这七天当中吃有酵的食物，要将他从以色列人中铲除。

16 On the first day you are to hold a sacred assembly, and another on the seventh day. You must not do any work on those days, except to prepare the meals—that is all you may do.

16 在节期的第一天和第七天，你们都要举行圣会。这两天所有人都不得工作，除了预备各人要吃的以外，不可做任何工。

17 So you are to keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I brought your divisions out of the land of Egypt. You must keep this day as a permanent statute for the generations to come.

17 你们要守这除酵节，因为我在这天把你们的大军从埃及领了出来。你们要守这节期，作为世代不变的律例。

18 In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.

18 从一月十四日傍晚开始，直到二十一日傍晚，你们都要吃无酵饼。

19 For seven days there must be no leaven found in your houses. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreigner or native of the land, must be cut off from the congregation of Israel.

19 在这七天内，你们屋里不能有酵。任何人若吃了有酵的东西，不论他是寄居者还是本地人，都要将他从以色列会众中铲除。

20 You are not to eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.”

20 无论你们住在哪里都要吃无酵饼，不能吃任何有酵的食物。”

21 Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and told them, “Go at once and select for yourselves a lamb for each family, and slaughter the Passover lamb.

21 于是，摩西召集以色列的众长老，对他们说：“你们家家户户都要挑选羔羊，把这逾越节的羔羊宰了。

22 Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.

22 拿一把牛膝草蘸盆里的血，把血涂在门楣和两边的门框上。天亮前，你们不可踏出门外。

23 When the LORD passes through to strike down the Egyptians, He will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway; so He will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.

23 因为耶和华要巡行各地，击杀埃及人，祂看见你们的门框和门楣上有血，就必越过你们的家门，不让灭命者进你们家杀人。

24 And you are to keep this command as a permanent statute for you and your descendants.

24 这是你们及后代永远当守的律例。

25 When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as He promised, you are to keep this service.

25 你们进入耶和华应许给你们的地方以后，要守这逾越节。

26 When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’

26 当你们的儿女问你们守这节期的意义时，

27 you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped.

27 你们就说，‘这是献给耶和华逾越节的祭，因为我们从前在埃及时，祂击杀埃及人，却越过以色列人所住的房子，救了我们各家。’”百姓听了摩西这番话，都俯伏敬拜。

28 And the Israelites went and did just what the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.

28 耶和华怎么吩咐摩西和亚伦，以色列人就照样遵行。

29 Now at midnight the LORD struck down every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on his throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, as well as all the firstborn among the livestock.

29 到了半夜，耶和华把所有埃及人的长子都杀了，包括坐王位的法老的长子、牢中囚犯的长子和一切头生的牲畜。

30 During the night Pharaoh got up—he and all his officials and all the Egyptians—and there was loud wailing in Egypt; for there was no house without someone dead.

30 当晚，法老及其臣仆和所有埃及人都惊醒了，到处都是哭号声，因为没有一家不死人的。

31 Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron by night and said, “Get up, leave my people, both you and the Israelites! Go, worship the LORD as you have requested.

31 法老连夜召见摩西和亚伦，对他们说：“你们和以色列人起来走吧，离开我的人民。就照你们的要求，去事奉耶和华吧！

32 Take your flocks and herds as well, just as you have said, and depart! And bless me also.”

32 照你们的要求，把所有的牛羊都带走吧！也要为我祝福。”

33 And in order to send them out of the land quickly, the Egyptians urged the people on. “For otherwise,” they said, “we are all going to die!”

33 埃及人催促以色列人赶快离开埃及，因为他们说：“我们都要死了。”

34 So the people took their dough before it was leavened, carrying it on their shoulders in kneading bowls wrapped in clothing.

34 于是，以色列百姓就把没有酵的面团放在揉面盆里，用衣服包起来扛在肩上，

35 Furthermore, the Israelites acted on Moses’ word and asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold, and for clothing.

35 又遵照摩西的吩咐向埃及人索取金器、银器和衣服。

36 And the LORD gave the people such favor in the sight of the Egyptians that they granted their request. In this way they plundered the Egyptians.

36 耶和华使埃及人恩待以色列人，他们要什么，埃及人就给什么。这样，以色列人夺取了埃及人的财富。

37 The Israelites journeyed from Rameses to Succoth with about 600,000 men on foot, besides women and children.

37 以色列百姓从埃及的兰塞启行，前往疏割，妇女孩童不算在内，单是步行的男子就有六十万，

38 And a mixed multitude also went up with them, along with great droves of livestock, both flocks and herds.

38 同行的还有许多外族人和大群的牛羊。

39 Since their dough had no leaven, the people baked what they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves. For when they had been driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves.

39 他们用从埃及带出来的面团烤成无酵饼，面团没有酵，因为他们被催促离开埃及，没有时间准备食物。

40 Now the duration of the Israelites’ stay in Egypt was 430 years.

40 以色列人在埃及共住了四百三十年，

41 At the end of the 430 years, to the very day, all the LORD’s divisions went out of the land of Egypt.

41 正好满了四百三十年的那一天，耶和华带领全军离开了埃及。

42 Because the LORD kept a vigil that night to bring them out of the land of Egypt, this same night is to be a vigil to the LORD, to be observed by all the Israelites for the generations to come.

42 那天晚上是耶和华把祂的子民带出埃及之夜，因此以后世世代代的以色列人都要在那日守夜，以尊崇耶和华。

43 And the LORD said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: No foreigner is to eat of it.

43 耶和华对摩西和亚伦说：“以下是逾越节的条例。 “所有外族人都不可吃逾越节的羊羔，

44 But any slave who has been purchased may eat of it, after you have circumcised him.

44 但那些买来的奴隶若接受了割礼，就可以吃。

45 A temporary resident or hired hand shall not eat the Passover.

45 寄居的外族人和雇工不可吃。

46 It must be eaten inside one house. You are not to take any of the meat outside the house, and you may not break any of the bones.

46 你们吃的时候，应当在房子里吃，不得把肉带到外面去，也不可折断羊羔的一根骨头。

47 The whole congregation of Israel must celebrate it.

47 以色列全体会众都要守这节期。

48 If a foreigner resides with you and wants to celebrate the LORD’s Passover, all the males in the household must be circumcised; then he may come near to celebrate it, and he shall be like a native of the land. But no uncircumcised man may eat of it.

48 跟你们住在一起的外族人如果想为耶和华守逾越节，他全家的男子都必须接受割礼，这样才可以像以色列人一样守逾越节，但没有接受割礼的人绝不可吃逾越节的羊羔。

49 The same law shall apply to both the native and the foreigner who resides among you.”

49 本地人和在你们中间寄居的外族人都要遵守这规矩。”

50 Then all the Israelites did this—they did just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron.

50 耶和华怎样吩咐摩西和亚伦，以色列百姓都遵命而行。

51 And on that very day the LORD brought the Israelites out of the land of Egypt by their divisions.

51 就在那一天，耶和华带领以色列大军离开了埃及。