Listen to this Kathan Kawraw
being read
by the chaciyd with some Hebrew pronunciation
1 And YAHUAH spake unto Mosheh, saying,
2 Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the
children of Yisrael, [both] of man and of beast: it [is] mine.
3 And Mosheh said unto the people, Remember this day, in which ye came out from
Egypt, out of the house of bondage; for by strength of hand YAHUAH brought you
out from this [place]: there shall no leavened bread be eaten.
4 This day came ye out in the month Abib.
5 And it shall be when YAHUAH shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites,
and the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which he
sware unto thy fathers to give thee, a land flowing with milk and honey, that
thou shalt keep this service in this month.
6 Seven days thou shalt eat unleavened bread, and in the seventh day [shall be]
a feast to YAHUAH.
7 Unleavened bread shall be eaten seven days; and there shall no leavened bread
be seen with thee, neither shall there be leaven seen with thee in all thy
quarters.
8 And thou shalt shew thy son in that day, saying, [This is done] because of
that [which] YAHUAH did unto me when I came forth out of Egypt.
9 And it shall be for a sign unto thee upon thine hand, and for a memorial
between thine eyes, that YAHUAH'S law may be in thy mouth: for with a strong
hand hath YAHUAH brought thee out of Egypt.
10 Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.
11 And it shall be when YAHUAH shall bring thee into the land of the Canaanites,
as he sware unto thee and to thy fathers, and shall give it thee,
12 That thou shalt set apart unto YAHUAH all that openeth the matrix, and every
firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males [shall be] YAHUAH'S.
13 And every firstling of an ass thou shalt redeem with a lamb; and if thou wilt
not redeem it, then thou shalt break his neck: and all the firstborn of man
among thy children shalt thou redeem.
14 And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What [is]
this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand YAHUAH brought us out
from Egypt, from the house of bondage:
15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that YAHUAH slew
all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the
firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to YAHUAH all that openeth the matrix,
being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
16 And it shall be for a token upon thine hand, and for frontlets between thine
eyes: for by strength of hand YAHUAH brought us forth out of Egypt.
17 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh had let the people go, that YAHUAH led them
not [through] the way of the land of the Philistines, although that [was] near;
for YAHUAH said, Lest peradventure the people repent when they see war, and they
return to Egypt:
18 But YAHUAH led the people about, [through] the way of the wilderness of the
Red sea: and the children of Yisrael went up harnessed out of the land of Egypt.
19 And Mosheh took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the
children of Yisrael, saying, YAHUAH will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up
my bones away hence with you.
20 And they took their journey from Succoth, and encamped in Etham, in the edge
of the wilderness.
21 And YAHUAH went before them by day in a pillar of a cloud, to lead them the
way; and by night in a pillar of fire, to give them light; to go by day and
night:
22 He took not away the pillar of the cloud by day, nor the pillar of fire by
night, [from] before the people.