First Day Of Pesach

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Hebrew

בְּעֵינֵי מִצְרַיִם וַיַּשְׁאִלוּם וַיְנַצְּלוּ
אֶת־מִצְרָיִם:

Sephardi

b'einei Mitzrayim vayash'ilum vayenatzlu
et-Mitzrayim:

English

so they lent them even more than they asked for. Therefore, the Jewish Nation emptied out Egypt from all of its wealth.

Fourth Reading (On Shabbat: Fifth Reading)

Hebrew

וַיִּסְעוּ בְנֵי־
יִשְׂרָאֵל מֵרַעְמְסֵס סֻכֹּתָה
כְּשֵׁשׁ־מֵאוֹת אֶלֶף רַגְלִי הַגְּבָרִים
לְבַד מִטָּף: וְגַם־עֵרֶב רַב עָלָה
אִתָּם וְצֹאן וּבָקָר מִקְנֶה כָּבֵד
מְאֹד: וַיֹּאפוּ אֶת־הַבָּצֵק אֲשֶׁר
הוֹצִיאוּ מִמִּצְרַיִם עֻגֹת מַצּוֹת
כִּי לֹא חָמֵץ כִּי־גֹרְשׁוּ מִמִּצְרַיִם
וְלֹא יָכְלוּ לְהִתְמַהְמֵהַּ וְגַם־צֵדָה
לֹא־עָשׂוּ לָהֶם: וּמוֹשַׁב בְּנֵי
יִשְׂרָאֵל אֲשֶׁר יָשְׁבוּ בְּמִצְרָיִם
שְׁלֹשִׁים שָׁנָה וְאַרְבַּע מֵאוֹת
שָׁנָה: וַיְהִי מִקֵּץ שְׁלֹשִׁים שָׁנָה
וְאַרְבַּע מֵאוֹת שָׁנָה וַיְהִי בְּעֶצֶם
הַיּוֹם הַזֶּה יָצְאוּ כָּל־צִבְאוֹת
יְהוָה מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם: לֵיל
שִׁמֻּרִים הוּא לַיהוָה לְהוֹצִיאָם
מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם הוּא־הַלַּיְלָה
הַזֶּה לַיהוָה שִׁמֻּרִים לְכָל־בְּנֵי
יִשְׂרָאֵל לְדֹרֹתָם:

Sephardi

Vayis'u venei-
Yisrael meiRa'meses Sukotah
k'shesh-me'ot elef ragli hag'varim
l'vad mitaf: V'gam-erev rav alah
itam vetzon uvakar mikneh kaved
me'od: Vayo'fu et-habatzek asher
hotzi'u mimitzrayim ugot matzot
ki lo chametz ki-gor'shu mimitzrayim
v'lo yachlu l'hitmahmeah v'gam-tzeidah
lo-asu lahem: Umoshav b'nei
Yisrael asher yashvu b'Mitzrayim
sh'loshim shanah v'arba me'ot
shanah: Vay'hi miketz sh'loshim shanah
v'arba me'ot shanah vay'hi b'etzem
hayom hazeh yatz'u kol-tziv'ot
Adonai mei'eretz Mitzrayim: Leil
shimurim hu laDonai l'hotzi'am
mei'eretz Mitzrayim hu-halaylah
hazeh laDonai shimurim l'chol-b'nei
Yisrael l'dorotam:

English

The Children of Israel traveled from the city of Rameses in Goshen, to the city of Sukkot, near the Sea of Reeds. The Jews totaled about six hundred thousand men over the age of twenty who traveled on foot, aside from the women and children. Additionally, a great mixed multitude from other nations chose to join the Jewish Nation, and went up with them, as well as an abundance of flock, cattle, and other livestock. As they came to Sukkot, they baked the unleavened dough that they had taken out with them from Egypt into matzot, because it did not become leavened, since there was not enough time for the dough to rise because they were driven out of Egypt in great haste and they could not delay, and they had not prepared any other provisions for themselves to eat during their travels. From the time when God told Abraham that his descendants would be enslaved in Egypt, the total number of years that Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and his descendants were living as foreigners in a land not theirs, including the 210 years that they dwelled in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. And so it was, at the end of four hundred and thirty years, it was on this very day—the fifteenth of Nissan—all of the legions of the Lord, the Jewish Nation, left the land of Egypt. The night of the Exodus was a night that the Lord awaited with great anticipation for the Jews to be ready to be taken out of the land of Egypt and from that night forward, it shall serve as a night of the Lord's protection from all evil for all the Children of Israel, throughout all of their future generations.

Fifth Reading (On Shabbat: Sixth Reading )

Hebrew

וַיֹּאמֶר יְהוָה
אֶל־מֹשֶׁה וְאַהֲרֹן זֹאת חֻקַּת
הַפֶּסַח כָּל־בֶּן־נֵכָר לֹא־יֹאכַל
בּוֹ: וְכָל־עֶבֶד אִישׁ מִקְנַת־
כֶּסֶף וּמַלְתָּה אֹתוֹ אָז יֹאכַל
בּוֹ: תּוֹשָׁב וְשָׂכִיר לֹא־יֹאכַל
בּוֹ: בְּבַיִת אֶחָד יֵאָכֵל לֹא־
תוֹצִיא מִן־הַבַּיִת מִן־הַבָּשָׂר
חוּצָה וְעֶצֶם לֹא תִשְׁבְּרוּ־בוֹ:
כָּל־עֲדַת יִשְׂרָאֵל יַעֲשׂוּ אֹתוֹ:

Sephardi

Vayomer Adonai
el-Moshe veaharon zot chukat
hapesach kol-ben-nechar lo-yochal
bo: V'chol-eved ish miknat-
kesef umaltah oto az yochal
bo: Toshav v'sachir lo-yochal
bo: B'vayit echad yei'achel lo-
totzi min-habayit min-habasar
chutzah v'etzem lo tishb'ru-vo:
Kol-adat Yisrael ya'asu oto:

English

On the fourteenth of Nissan, the Lord said to Moses and Aaron: These are the statutes of the Pesach-offering, any person who is a stranger to God by not following His ways may not eat from it. Any slave that was bought with money, you shall first circumcise him and only then may he eat from it. A non-Jewish dweller in the Land of Israel and a hired non-Jewish laborer may not eat from it. Each offering must be eaten in one house by a single group. You shall not take out any of the meat of the offering from the house where the group is eating, nor shall you break any of the bones that still have at least one ounce of meat on them. The entire Jewish Nation shall make the Pesach-offering, with any Jew joining any group. The groups need not be composed of family members, as it was by the original offering, when the Jews were still in Egypt.

(On Shabbat: Seventh Reading)

Hebrew

וְכִי־יָגוּר אִתְּךָ גֵּר וְעָשָׂה
פֶּסַח לַיהוָה הִמּוֹל לוֹ כָל־זָכָר וְאָז
יִקְרַב לַעֲשֹׂתוֹ וְהָיָה כְּאֶזְרַח הָאָרֶץ
וְכָל־עָרֵל לֹא־יֹאכַל בּוֹ: תּוֹרָה אַחַת
יִהְיֶה לָאֶזְרָח וְלַגֵּר הַגָּר בְּתוֹכְכֶם:
וַיַּעֲשׂוּ כָּל־בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל כַּאֲשֶׁר צִוָּה
יְהוָה אֶת־מֹשֶׁה וְאֶת־אַהֲרֹן כֵּן עָשׂוּ:
וַיְהִי בְּעֶצֶם הַיּוֹם הַזֶּה הוֹצִיא יְהוָה
אֶת־בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל מֵאֶרֶץ מִצְרָיִם
עַל־צִבְאֹתָם:

Sephardi

V'chi-yagur it'cha ger v'asah
pesach laDonai himol lo chol-zachar v'az
yikrav la'asoto vehayah k'ezrach ha'aretz
v'chol-arel lo-yochal bo: Torah achat
yihyeh la'ezrach v'lager hagar b'tochechem:
Vaya'asu kol-b'nei Yisrael ka'asher tzivah
Adonai et-Moshe v'et-Aharon ken asu:
Vay'hi b'etzem hayom hazeh hotzi Adonai
et-b'nei Yisrael mei'eretz Mitzrayim
al-tziv'otam:

English

When a convert to Judaism will live among you, and he will bring the Pesach-offering to the Lord, first every male in his household shall be circumcised, and only then may he come near to offer it; he will bring the Pesach-offering on the fourteenth of Nissan and thus he will be like all the native Jews of the land. However, any uncircumcised male may not eat from it. There shall be one set of laws for both the native Jew and the convert who dwells amongst you. All of the Children of Israel followed and promised to do just as the Lord had commanded them through Moses and Aaron, and they did exactly as they were commanded. And on that exact day, at midday of the fifteenth of Nissan, the Lord took out the Children of Israel from the land of Egypt, grouped by their legions.

MAFTIR FOR FIRST DAY OF PESACH

The following is the commandment for the special offerings brought in the Holy Temple during the Festival of Pesach.

Final Reading

Hebrew

וּבַחֹדֶשׁ הָרִאשׁוֹן בְּאַרְבָּעָה עָשָׂר
יוֹם לַחֹדֶשׁ פֶּסַח לַיהוָה: וּבַחֲמִשָּׁה
עָשָׂר יוֹם לַחֹדֶשׁ הַזֶּה חַג שִׁבְעַת יָמִים
מַצּוֹת יֵאָכֵל: בַּיּוֹם הָרִאשׁוֹן מִקְרָא־
קֹדֶשׁ כָּל־מְלֶאכֶת עֲבֹדָה לֹא תַעֲשׂוּ:
וְהִקְרַבְתֶּם אִשֶּׁה עֹלָה לַיהוָה פָּרִים
בְּנֵי־בָקָר שְׁנַיִם וְאַיִל אֶחָד וְשִׁבְעָה
כְּבָשִׂים בְּנֵי שָׁנָה תְּמִימִם יִהְיוּ לָכֶם:
וּמִנְחָתָם סֹלֶת בְּלוּלָה בַשָּׁמֶן שְׁלֹשָׁה
עֶשְׂרֹנִים לַפָּר וּשְׁנֵי עֶשְׂרֹנִים לָאַיִל
תַּעֲשׂוּ: עִשָּׂרוֹן עִשָּׂרוֹן תַּעֲשֶׂה לַכֶּבֶשׂ
הָאֶחָד לְשִׁבְעַת הַכְּבָשִׂים: וּשְׂעִיר
חַטָּאת אֶחָד לְכַפֵּר עֲלֵיכֶם: מִלְּבַד
עֹלַת הַבֹּקֶר אֲשֶׁר לְעֹלַת הַתָּמִיד
תַּעֲשׂוּ אֶת־אֵלֶּה: כָּאֵלֶּה תַּעֲשׂוּ לַיּוֹם
שִׁבְעַת יָמִים לֶחֶם אִשֵּׁה רֵיחַ־נִיחֹחַ
לַיהוָה עַל־עוֹלַת הַתָּמִיד יֵעָשֶׂה וְנִסְכּוֹ:
וּבַיּוֹם הַשְּׁבִיעִי מִקְרָא־קֹדֶשׁ יִהְיֶה לָכֶם
כָּל־מְלֶאכֶת עֲבֹדָה לֹא תַעֲשׂוּ:

Sephardi

Uvachodesh harishon b'arba'ah asar
yom lachodesh pesach laDonai: Uvachamishah
asar yom lachodesh hazeh chag shiv'at yamim
matzot yei'achel: Bayom harishon mikra-
kodesh kol-m'lechet avodah lo ta'asu:
V'hikravtem isheh olah laDonai parim
b'nei-vakar sh'nayim v'ayil echad v'shiv'ah
k'vasim b'nei shanah t'mimim yihyu lachem:
Uminchatam solet b'lulah vashamen sh'loshah
esronim lapar ush'nei esronim la'ayil
ta'asu: Isaron isaron ta'aseh lakeves
ha'echad l'shiv'at hak'vasim: Us'ir
chatat echad l'chaper aleichem: Milvad
olat haboker asher l'olat hatamid
ta'asu et-eileh: Ka'eileh ta'asu layom
shiv'at yamim lechem isheh rei'ach-nicho'ach
laDonai al-olat hatamid yei'aseh v'nisko:
Uvayom hashvi'i mikra-kodesh yihyeh lachem
kol-m'lechet avodah lo ta'asu:

English

On the fourteenth day of the month of Nissan, the first month of the year, bring a Pesach-offering for the Lord. And on the fifteenth day of this month, the festival begins; matzot shall be eaten for a period of seven days. On the first day of this seven day period—a day of holy gathering—you should not do any work. You shall bring the following animals to the Lord as a burnt-offering to be completely consumed by fire: two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs that are less than a year old. They shall be unblemished for you. As their flour-offering, bring three-tenths of an eifah (approximately 6 kg/13.5 lb) of fine flour mixed with olive oil for each bull, two-tenths of an eifah (approximately 4 kg/9 lb) for the ram, and one-tenth of an eifah (approximately 2 kg/4.5 lb) for each lamb of the seven lambs. You should also bring one young male goat as a sin-offering to atone for your sins. You shall bring these offerings besides for the morning burnt-offering, which is offered daily. You shall bring these offerings on each day, for seven days. They are like food for the Lord and are brought as a fire-offering to make a pleasing smell for the Lord. It shall all be brought in addition to the daily burnt-offering and its wine offering. And just as on the first day of this seven day period, the seventh day shall also be a holy gathering for you; you shall not do any work.