1. ANᴅ our Lord spake to Moyses, saing:
2. Sanctifie vnto me euerie first borne that openeth the matrice in the children of
Israel, as wel of men as of beastes: for they are al mine.
3. And Moyses said to the people: Remember this day in the which you went forth out of
Ægypt, and out of the house of seruitude, because with a strong hand hath our Lord brought you
forth out of this place: that you eate not leauened bread.
4. This day you goe forth in the moneth of new corne.
5. And when our Lord shal haue brought thee into the Land of Chananeite and Hetheite and
Amorrheite and Heueite and Iebuseite, which he sware to thy fathers that he would geue thee, a
land that floweth with milke and honie, thou shalt celebrate this maner of sacred rites in
this moneth.
6. Seuen daies shalt thou eate azimes: and in the seuenth day shal be the solemnitie of
our Lord.
7. Azimes shal you eate seuen dayes: there shal not be seene anie leauened thing with
thee, nor in al thy coastes.
8. And thou shalt tel thy sonne in that day, saying: This is that which our Lord did to
me when I came forth out of Ægypt.
9. And it shal be as a signe in thy hand, and as a moniment before thine eyes: and that
the law of our Lord be alwayes in the mouth, for in a strong hand our Lord hath brought thee
out of Ægypt.
10. Thou shalt keepe this obseruation at the sette time from dayes to dayes.
11. And when our Lord shal haue brought thee into the Land of the Chananeite, as he sware
to thee and thy fathers, and shal geue it thee:
12. thou shalt separate al that openeth the matrice vnto our Lord, and al that is
brought forth in thy cattel: whatsoeuer thou shalt haue of male sexe thou shalt consecrate to
our Lord.
13. The first borne of an asse thou shal change for a sheepe: and if thou doe not redeeme
it, thou shalt kil it. And euerie first borne of men among thy children, thou shalt redemne
with a price.
14. And when thy sonne shal aske thee to morrow, saying: What is this? thou shalt answere
him: With a strong hand did our Lord bring vs forth out of the land of Ægypt, out of the house
of seruitude.
15. For when Pharaoes hart was indurate, and would not dismisse vs, our Lord slew euerie
first-borne in the Land of Ægypt, from the first-borne of man to the first borne of beastes:
therfore I sacrifice to our Lord al that openeth the matrice of the male sixe, and al the
first-borne of my sonnes I doe redeme.
16. It shal be therfore as a signe in thy hand, and as a thing hanged before thine eyes,
for a remembrance: because our Lord by a strong hand hath brought vs forth out of Ægypt.
17. Therfore when Pharao had sent forth the people, our Lord ledde them not by the way of
the Philisthijns countrie which is neere: thinking lest perhappes it would repent them,
if they should see warres arise against them, and would returne into Ægypt.
18. But he ledde them about by the way of the desert, which is besides the Red-sea: and
the children of Israel went vp out of the Land of Ægypt armed.
19. Moyses also tooke Iosephes bones with him: because he had adiured the children of
Israel, saying: God shal visite you, carrie out my bones from hence with you.
20. And marching from Socoth they camped in Etham in the vtmost coastes of the
wildernesse.
21. And our Lord went before them to shew the way by day in a piller of a cloude, and by
night in a piller of fire: that he might be the guide of their iourney both times.
22. There neuer failed the piller of the cloude by day, nor the piller of fire by
night, before the people.