Old Testament

Exodus 12

^12:1Yahweh spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, ^12:2"This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you. ^12:3Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household; ^12:4and if the household be too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. ^12:5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats: ^12:6and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening. ^12:7They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it. ^12:8They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs. ^12:9Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts. ^12:10You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire. ^12:11This is how you shall eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh's Passover. ^12:12For I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and animal. Against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am Yahweh. ^12:13The blood shall be to you for a token on the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there shall no plague be on you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt. ^12:14This day shall be to you for a memorial, and you shall keep it a feast to Yahweh: throughout your generations you shall keep it a feast by an ordinance forever.

^12:15Seven days shall you eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel. ^12:16In the first day there shall be to you a holy convocation, and in the seventh day a holy convocation; no manner of work shall be done in them, except that which every man must eat, that only may be done by you. ^12:17You shall observe the feast of unleavened bread; for in this same day have I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt: therefore shall you observe this day throughout your generations by an ordinance forever. ^12:18In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty first day of the month at evening. ^12:19Seven days shall there be no yeast found in your houses, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he be a foreigner, or one who is born in the land. ^12:20You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.'"

^12:21Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, "Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover. ^12:22You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two side-posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning. ^12:23For Yahweh will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two side-posts, Yahweh will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you. ^12:24You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever. ^12:25It shall happen when you have come to the land which Yahweh will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall keep this service. ^12:26It will happen, when your children ask you, 'What do you mean by this service?' ^12:27that you shall say, 'It is the sacrifice of Yahweh's Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.'"

The people bowed their heads and worshiped. ^12:28The children of Israel went and did so; as Yahweh had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

^12:29It happened at midnight, that Yahweh struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. ^12:30Pharaoh 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. ^12:31He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, "Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Yahweh, as you have said! ^12:32Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone; and bless me also!"

^12:33The Egyptians were urgent with the people, to send them out of the land in haste, for they said, "We are all dead men." ^12:34The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading-troughs being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders. ^12:35The children of Israel did according to the word of Moses; and they asked of the Egyptians jewels of silver, and jewels of gold, and clothing. ^12:36Yahweh gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. They despoiled the Egyptians.

^12:37The children of Israel traveled from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand on foot who were men, besides children. ^12:38A mixed multitude went up also with them, with flocks, herds, and even very much cattle. ^12:39They baked unleavened cakes of the dough which they brought forth out of Egypt; for it wasn't leavened, because they were thrust out of Egypt, and couldn't wait, neither had they prepared for themselves any food. ^12:40Now the time that the children of Israel lived in Egypt was four hundred thirty years. ^12:41It happened at the end of four hundred thirty years, even the same day it happened, that all the hosts of Yahweh went out from the land of Egypt. ^12:42It is a night to be much observed to Yahweh for bringing them out from the land of Egypt. This is that night of Yahweh, to be much observed of all the children of Israel throughout their generations.

^12:43Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron, "This is the ordinance of the Passover. There shall no foreigner eat of it, ^12:44but every man's servant who is bought for money, when you have circumcised him, then shall he eat of it. ^12:45A foreigner and a hired servant shall not eat of it. ^12:46In one house shall it be eaten; you shall not carry forth anything of the flesh abroad out of the house; neither shall you break a bone of it. ^12:47All the congregation of Israel shall keep it. ^12:48When a stranger shall live as a foreigner with you, and will keep the Passover to Yahweh, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one who is born in the land: but no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. ^12:49One law shall be to him who is born at home, and to the stranger who lives as a foreigner among you." ^12:50Thus did all the children of Israel. As Yahweh commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did. ^12:51It happened the same day, that Yahweh brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their hosts.

New Testament

Mark 10

^10:1He arose from there and came into the borders of Judea and beyond the Jordan. Multitudes came together to him again. As he usually did, he was again teaching them. ^10:2Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, "Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?"

^10:3He answered, "What did Moses command you?"

^10:4They said, "Moses allowed a certificate of divorce to be written, and to divorce her."

^10:5But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment. ^10:6But from the beginning of the creation, 'God made them male and female. ^10:7For this cause a man will leave his father and mother, and will join to his wife, ^10:8and the two will become one flesh,' so that they are no longer two, but one flesh. ^10:9What therefore God has joined together, let no man separate."

^10:10In the house, his disciples asked him again about the same matter. ^10:11He said to them, "Whoever divorces his wife, and marries another, commits adultery against her. ^10:12If a woman herself divorces her husband, and marries another, she commits adultery."

^10:13They were bringing to him little children, that he should touch them, but the disciples rebuked those who were bringing them. ^10:14But when Jesus saw it, he was moved with indignation, and said to them, "Allow the little children to come to me! Don't forbid them, for the Kingdom of God belongs to such as these. ^10:15Most assuredly I tell you, whoever will not receive the Kingdom of God like a little child, he will in no way enter into it." ^10:16He took them in his arms, and blessed them, laying his hands on them.

^10:17As he was going out into the way, one ran to him, knelt before him, and asked him, "Good Teacher, what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life?"

^10:18Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good except one -- God. ^10:19You know the commandments: 'Do not murder,' 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not give false testimony,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your father and mother.'"

^10:20He said to him, "Teacher, I have observed all these things from my youth."

^10:21Jesus looking at him loved him, and said to him, "One thing you lack. Go, sell whatever you have, and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; and come, follow me, taking up the cross."

^10:22But his face fell at that saying, and he went away sorrowful, for he was one who had great possessions. ^10:23Jesus looked around, and said to his disciples, "How difficult it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God!"

^10:24The disciples were amazed at his words. But Jesus answered again, "Children, how hard is it for those who trust in riches to enter into the Kingdom of God! ^10:25It is easier for a camel to go through a needle's eye than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."

^10:26They were exceedingly astonished, saying to him, "Then who can be saved?"

^10:27Jesus, looking at them, said, "With men it is impossible, but not with God, for all things are possible with God."

^10:28Peter began to tell him, "Behold, we have left all, and have followed you."

^10:29Jesus said, "Most assuredly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or brothers, or sisters, or father, or mother, or wife, or children, or land, for my sake, and for the gospel's sake, ^10:30but he will receive one hundred times more now in this time, houses, brothers, sisters, mothers, children, and land, with persecutions; and in the age to come eternal life. ^10:31But many who are first will be last; and the last first."

^10:32They were on the way, going up to Jerusalem; and Jesus was going in front of them, and they were amazed; and those who followed were afraid. He again took the twelve, and began to tell them the things that were going to happen to him. ^10:33"Behold, we are going up to Jerusalem. The Son of Man will be delivered to the chief priests and the scribes. They will condemn him to death, and will deliver him to the Gentiles. ^10:34They will mock him, spit on him, scourge him, and kill him. On the third day he will rise again."

^10:35James and John, the sons of Zebedee, came near to him, saying, "Teacher, we want you to do for us whatever we will ask."

^10:36He said to them, "What do you want me to do for you?"

^10:37They said to him, "Grant to us that we may sit, one at your right hand, and one at your left hand, in your glory."

^10:38But Jesus said to them, "You don't know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I drink, and to be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?"

^10:39They said to him, "We are able."

Jesus said to them, "You shall indeed drink the cup that I drink, and you shall be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with; ^10:40but to sit at my right hand and at my left hand is not mine to give, but for whom it has been prepared."

^10:41When the ten heard it, they began to be indignant towards James and John.

^10:42Jesus summoned them, and said to them, "You know that they who are recognized as rulers over the Gentiles lord it over them, and their great ones exercise authority over them. ^10:43But it shall not be so among you, but whoever wants to become great among you shall be your servant. ^10:44Whoever of you wants to become first among you, shall be servant of all. ^10:45For the Son of Man also came not to be served, but to serve, and to give his life as a ransom for many."

^10:46They came to Jericho. As he went out from Jericho, with his disciples and a great multitude, the son of Timaeus, Bartimaeus, a blind beggar, was sitting by the road. ^10:47When he heard that it was Jesus the Nazarene, he began to cry out, and say, "Jesus, you son of David, have mercy on me!" ^10:48Many rebuked him, that he should be quiet, but he cried out much more, "You son of David, have mercy on me!"

^10:49Jesus stood still, and said, "Call him."

They called the blind man, saying to him, "Cheer up! Get up. He is calling you!"

^10:50He, casting away his cloak, sprang up, and came to Jesus.

^10:51Jesus asked him, "What do you want me to do for you?"

The blind man said to him, "Rhabboni, that I may see again."

^10:52Jesus said to him, "Go your way. Your faith has made you well." Immediately he received his sight, and followed Jesus in the way.