Exodus 13
13:1And the lord said to Moses, saying,
13:2Sanctify to me every first-born, first-born of its kind opening wide every womb among the sons of Israel, from man unto beast -- it is mine.
13:3And Moses said to the people, Remember this day in which you came forth from out of Egypt, from out of the house of slavery. For with a fortified hand the lord led you from here, and you shall not eat yeast.
13:4For today you go forth in the new month.
13:5And it will be when ever the lord your God should bring you into the land of the Canaanites, and Hittites, and Amorites, and Hivites, and Jebusites, and Gergesites, and Perizzites, which he swore by an oath to your fathers to give to you the land flowing milk and honey, then you shall do this service in this month.
13:6Six days you shall eat unleavened breads, but the seventh day is a holiday of the lord.
13:7Unleavened bread shall you eat seven days. There shall not be seen in you leavened bread, nor shall there be to you yeast in all your boundaries.
13:8And you shall announce to your son in that day, saying, Concerning this the lord God did to me as I went forth from out of Egypt.
13:9And it will be to you for a sign upon your hand, and a memorial before your eyes, that the law of the lord may be in your mouth. For with a fortified hand the lord led you out of Egypt.
13:10And you shall guard this law according to the times of hours, from days to days.
13:11And it shall be whenever the lord your God should bring you into the land of the Canaanites, in which manner he swore by an oath to your fathers, and shall give it to you,
13:12that you shall separate every offspring opening the womb, the males to the lord, every offspring opening the womb from the herds among your cattle. As many as come to pass to you, the males are to the lord.
13:13Every newborn opening the womb of donkey you shall barter for sheep. But if you should not barter you shall ransom it. Every first-born of man of your sons you shall ransom.
13:14And if your son should ask you about these, saying, What is this? And you shall say to him, that, With a fortified hand the lord led you out of the land of Egypt, from out of the house of slavery.
13:15And when he hardened Pharaoh to send us, the lord slew all the first-born in the land of Egypt, from the first-born of men, unto the first-born of cattle. On account of this I sacrifice to the lord every offspring opening the womb, the males to the lord, and every first-born of my sons I will ransom.
13:16And it shall be for a sign upon your hand, and unshaken before your eyes. For by a fortified hand the lord led you out of Egypt.
13:17And as Pharaoh sent out the people, God did not guide them in the way of the land of the Philistines, for it was near; for God said, Lest at any time the people should repent seeing war, and they should return into Egypt;
13:18and God circled the people in the way -- the one into the wilderness, to the red sea. And in the fifth generation the sons of Israel ascended from out of the land of Egypt.
13:19And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for with an oath Joseph bound the sons of Israel, saying, With a visit the lord will visit you, and you shall join in carrying off my bones from here with you.
13:20And the sons of Israel lifted away from out of Succoth, and they encamped in Etham by the wilderness.
13:21But God led them, by day by a column of cloud, to show to them the way; but in the night by a column of fire.
13:22The column of cloud did not fail by day, and the column of fire by night before all the people.