Jubilees 49:1-23

¹Remember the commandment which the Lord commanded you concerning the Passover, that you should celebrate it in its season on the fourteenth of the first month, that you should kill it before evening, and that they should eat it by night on the evening of the fifteenth from the time of the setting of the sun.

²For on this night—the beginning of the festival and the beginning of the joy—you were eating the Passover in Egypt, when all the powers of Mastema had been let loose to slay all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh to the firstborn of the captive maidservant in the mill, and to the cattle.

³And this is the sign which the Lord gave them: Into every house on the lintels of which they saw the blood of a lamb of the first year, into that house they should not enter to slay, but should pass by it, so that all those should be saved who were in the house because the sign of the blood was on its lintels.

⁴And the powers of the Lord did everything according as the Lord commanded them, and they passed by all the children of Israel, and the plague did not come upon them to destroy from among them any soul either of cattle, or man, or dog.

⁵And the plague was very grievous in Egypt, and there was no house in Egypt where there was not one dead, with weeping and lamentation.

⁶And all Israel was eating the flesh of the paschal lamb, and drinking the wine, and was praising, blessing, and giving thanks to the Lord God of their fathers, and was ready to go forth from under the yoke of Egypt and from the evil bondage.

⁷And remember this day all the days of your life, and observe it from year to year all the days of your life, once a year, on its day, according to all the law thereof, and do not postpone it from day to day, or from month to month.

⁸For it is an eternal ordinance, engraved on the heavenly tablets regarding all the children of Israel, that they should observe it every year on its day once a year, throughout all their generations; and there is no limit of days, for this is ordained forever.

⁹And the man who is free from uncleanness and does not come to observe it on the occasion of its day, so as to bring an acceptable offering before the Lord, and to eat and to drink before the Lord on the day of its festival—that man who is clean and close at hand shall be cut off; because he did not offer the oblation of the Lord in its appointed season, he shall take the guilt upon himself.

¹⁰Let the children of Israel come and observe the Passover on the day of its fixed time, 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, for two portions of the day are given to the light, and a third part to the evening.

¹¹This is what the Lord commanded you, that you should observe it between the evenings.

¹²And it is not permissible to slay it during any period of the light, but during the period bordering on the evening, and let them eat it at the time of the evening, until the third part of the night; and whatever is left over of all its flesh from the third part of the night and onwards, let them burn it with fire.

¹³And they shall not cook it with water, nor shall they eat it raw, but roasted on the fire; they shall eat it with diligence, its head with the inwards thereof and its feet they shall roast with fire, and not break any bone thereof; for of the children of Israel no bone shall be crushed.

¹⁴For this reason the Lord commanded the children of Israel to observe the Passover on the day of its fixed time, and they shall not break a bone thereof; for it is a festival day, and a day commanded, and there may be no passing over from day to day, or from month to month, but on the day of its festival let it be observed.

¹⁵And command the children of Israel to observe the Passover throughout their days, every year, once a year on the day of its fixed time, and it shall come for a memorial well pleasing before the Lord, and no plague shall come upon them to slay or to smite in that year in which they celebrate the Passover in its season in every respect according to His command.

¹⁶And they shall not eat it outside the sanctuary of the Lord, but before the sanctuary of the Lord, and all the people of the congregation of Israel shall celebrate it in its appointed season.

¹⁷And every man who has come upon its day shall eat it in the sanctuary of your God before the Lord from twenty years old and upward; for thus is it written and ordained that they should eat it in the sanctuary of the Lord.

¹⁸And when the children of Israel come into the land which they are to possess, into 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 has been built in the land, let them come and celebrate the Passover in the midst of the tabernacle of the Lord, and let them slay it before the Lord from year to year.

¹⁹And in the days when the house has been built in the name of the Lord in the land of their inheritance, they shall go there and slay the Passover in the evening, at sunset, at the third part of the day.

²⁰And they shall offer its blood on the threshold of the altar, and shall place its fat on the fire which is upon the altar, and they shall eat its flesh roasted with fire in the court of the house which has been sanctified in the name of the Lord.

²¹And they may not celebrate the Passover in their cities, nor in any place except before the tabernacle of the Lord, or before His house where His name has dwelt; and they shall not go astray from the Lord.

²²And you, Moses, command the children of Israel to observe the ordinances of the Passover, as it was commanded to you; declare to them every year, both the day of its days and the festival of unleavened bread, that they should eat unleavened bread seven days, that they should observe its festival, and that they bring an oblation every day during those seven days of joy before the Lord on the altar of your God.

²³For you celebrated this festival with haste when you went forth from Egypt until you entered into the wilderness of Shur; for on the shore of the sea you completed it.