Jubilees

Remember the commandment which the Lord commanded you concerning the Passover, that you shall celebrate it in its season on the fourteenth day of the first month, that you shall kill it before evening, and that they shall eat it at night on the fifteenth day from the moment the sun sets.

For on this night, at the beginning of the festival and at the beginning of the joy, you were eating the Passover in Egypt, when all the powers of Mastema had been released to kill all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh to the firstborn of the captive maidservant at the mill, and of the cattle.

And this was the sign which the Lord gave them: In every house in which they saw the blood of a yearling lamb on the lintel of the door, into that house they would not enter to kill, but should pass over, that all those who were in the house would be saved because the sign of the blood was on the lintel of the door.

And the powers of the Lord did everything as the Lord had commanded them, and they passed over all the children of Israel, and the plague did not come upon them to destroy any life among them, whether of cattle, man or dog.

And the plague was very severe in Egypt, and there was no house in which there was not one dead, and weeping and lamentation.

And all Israel was eating the flesh of the Passover lamb, and drinking the wine, and feasting, and blessing, and giving thanks to the Lord God of their fathers, and were ready to go out from the yoke of Egypt, and from evil bondage.

And remember you this day all the days of your life, and observe it year by year all the days of your life, once a year, on this day, according to all the law, and do not postpone the Passover from day to day, or from month to month.

For it is an eternal ordinance, and engraved on the heavenly tablets concerning all the children of Israel that they shall observe it every year on its day once a year throughout all generations; and there is no limit of days, because it is ordained forever.

The man who is free from filthiness and does not come to observe it on its day, to bring an acceptable offering before the Lord, and to eat and drink before the Lord on the day of this festival, this man who is clean and is near shall be cut off, because he did not offer an offering to the Lord at its appointed time, he shall take guilt upon himself.

Let the children of Israel come and celebrate the Passover on its appointed days, on the fourteenth day of the first month, between the evenings, from the third part of the day to the third part of the night, because two parts of the day are given for light, and the third part for evening.

This is what the Lord commanded you that you shall observe between the evenings.

And it is not permitted to kill in any period of light, but during the period near evening, and that it be eaten in the time of evening until the third part of the night, and whatever remains of all the flesh from the third part of the night onward, let it be burned with fire.

And they shall not cook it with water, nor eat it raw, but roasted in the fire. They shall eat it diligently. Its head with its entrails and its feet they shall roast in the fire, and they shall not break any bone; because for the children of Israel no bone shall be broken.

For this reason the Lord commanded the children of Israel to observe the Passover on the appointed day, and they shall not break any bone; because it is a festive day, and an ordained day, and it shall not be postponed from day to day, and month to month, but let it be observed on the day of the festival.

And you command the children of Israel to observe the Passover on its days, every year, once a year on its appointed day, and this shall be a pleasant memorial before the Lord, and no plague shall come upon them to kill or harm in that year in which they celebrate the Passover at its time and in every respect according to His order.

And they shall not eat it outside the sanctuary of the Lord, but before the sanctuary of God, and all the people of the congregation of Israel shall celebrate it at its appointed time.

And every man who comes on this day shall eat in the sanctuary of his God before the Lord, from twenty years old and upward; for thus it is written and ordained that they shall eat it in the sanctuary of the Lord.

And when the children of Israel come to the land which they shall possess, to the land of Canaan, and set up the tabernacle of the Lord in the midst of the land in one of their tribes, until the sanctuary of the Lord is built in the land, let them come and celebrate the Passover in the midst of the tabernacle of the Lord, and let them kill it before the Lord year by year.

And in the days when the house is built in the name of the Lord in the land of their inheritance, they shall go there and kill the Passover lamb at evening, at sunset, in the third part of the day.

And they shall offer its blood on the threshold of the altar, and shall place the fat on the fire that is on the altar, and they shall eat the flesh roasted in the fire in the court of the house that was sanctified in the name of the Lord.

And they cannot celebrate the Passover in their cities, nor in any place except before the tabernacle of the Lord, or before His house in which His name dwells; and they shall not turn aside from the Lord.

And you, Moses, command the children of Israel to observe the ordinances of the Passover, as you were commanded, that they shall observe the day, year after year its day, and the festival of unleavened bread, that they shall eat unleavened bread seven days, that they shall observe this festival, and that they shall bring an offering every day during those days, seven days of joy before the Lord on the altar of their God.

For you celebrate this festival in haste when you went out of the land of Egypt and entered the wilderness of Shur; because on the coast of the sea you completed it.