And behold, someone came to Him and said, Teacher, what good thing shall I do that I may  ¹have eternal life?

And He said to him, Why do you ask Me concerning what is good? There is only  ¹One who is  ²good. But if you want to  ³enter into life,  ⁴keep the commandments.

He said to Him, Which ones? And Jesus said, "You shall not murder; you shall not commit adultery; you shall not steal; you shall not bear false witness;

Honor your father and mother; and you shall love your neighbor as yourself.”

The young man said to Him, All these things I have kept. What do I still lack?

Jesus said to him, If you want to be  ¹perfect, go, sell your possessions and give to the poor, and you will have treasure in the heavens; and come,  ²follow Me.

But the young man, hearing this word, went away  ¹sorrowing, for he had many possessions.

And Jesus said to His disciples, Truly I say to you, Only with difficulty will a rich man enter into the kingdom of the heavens.

And again I say to you, It is  ¹easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of  ²God.

And when the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and said, Who then can be  ¹saved?

And looking upon them, Jesus said to them, With men this is impossible, but with God all things are  ¹possible.

Then Peter answered and said to Him, Behold, we have left all and followed You. What then will there be for us?

And Jesus said to them, Truly I say to you that you who have followed Me, in the  ¹restoration, when the Son of Man sits on the throne of His glory, you also shall sit on twelve thrones,  ²judging the twelve tribes of Israel.

And everyone who has left houses or brothers or sisters or father or mother or children or fields for My name's sake shall  ¹receive  ²a hundred times as much and shall  ³inherit eternal life.

But many  ¹first will be last, and many last first.

 ¹For the kingdom of the heavens is like a  ²man, who is a householder, who went out early in the  ³morning to hire  ⁴workmen for his  ⁵vineyard.

And having  ¹agreed with the workmen for a  ²denarius a day, he sent them into his vineyard.

And he went out about the  ¹third hour and saw others standing  ²idle in the  ³marketplace,

And to those he said, You also go into the vineyard, and whatever is right I will give you. And they went.

And again he went out about the  ¹sixth and the  ²ninth hour and did likewise.

And about the  ¹eleventh hour he went out and found others standing, and said to them, Why have you been standing here all the day idle?

They said to him, Because  ¹no one has hired us. He said to them, You  ²also go into the vineyard.

And when  ¹evening fell, the master of the vineyard said to his steward, Call the workmen and pay them their wages, beginning from the  ²last ones to the first.

And when those hired about the eleventh hour came, they received each a denarius.

And when the  ¹first ones came, they supposed that they would receive more. And they themselves also received each a denarius.

And when they received it, they murmured against the householder,

 ¹Saying, These last ones worked one hour, and you have made them  ²equal to us who bore the burden of the day and the scorching heat.

But he answered  ¹one of them and said,  ²Friend, I am doing nothing unrighteous to you. Did you not  ³agree with me for a denarius?

 ¹Take what is yours and go. I want to give to this last one even as I have given to you.

Is it not lawful for me to do what I  ¹wish with what is mine? Or is your eye  ²evil because I am good?

Thus shall the  ¹last be first and the first last.

Then Jehovah said to Moses, One more plague will I bring upon Pharaoh and upon Egypt; after that he will let you go from here. When he lets you go, he will surely drive you out from here completely.

Speak now in the hearing of the people that each man is to ask of his neighbor and each woman of her neighbor for articles of silver and articles of gold.

And Jehovah gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians. Moreover the man Moses was very great in the land of Egypt, in the sight of Pharaoh's servants and in the sight of the people.

And Moses said, Thus says Jehovah, About midnight I will go out into the midst of Egypt,

And all the firstborn in the land of Egypt shall die, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sits upon his throne to the firstborn of the female slave who is behind the millstones, and all the firstborn of cattle.

And there shall be a great cry throughout all the land of Egypt, such as has not been or ever will be again.

But a dog shall not bark at any of the children of Israel, at man or beast, that you may know that Jehovah makes a distinction between the Egyptians and Israel.

And all these servants of yours shall come down to me and bow down to me, saying, Get out, you and all the people who follow you; and after that I will go out. And he went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.

Then Jehovah said to Moses, Pharaoh will not listen to you, in order that My wonders may be multiplied in the land of Egypt.

Thus Moses and Aaron did all these wonders before Pharaoh, but Jehovah hardened Pharaoh's heart, and he did not let the children of Israel go out of his land.

Then Jehovah spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

This month will be the  ¹beginning of months for you; it shall be the first of the months of the year to you.

Speak to all the assembly of Israel, saying, On the tenth of this month each man shall take a  ¹lamb according to his fathers' house, a lamb for a  ²household.

And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his  ¹neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the  ²persons in the houses; according to each man's eating you shall make your count for the lamb.

Your lamb shall be without blemish, a  ¹year-old male; you may take it from the  ²sheep or from the  ²goats.

And you shall keep it until the  ¹fourteenth day of this month; then the  ²whole congregation of the assembly of Israel shall kill it  ³at twilight.

And they shall take some of the  ¹blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the  ²houses in which they eat it.

And they shall eat the  ¹flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with  ²unleavened bread with bitter herbs.

Do not eat any of it  ¹raw or boiled at all with water, but  ¹roasted with fire — its  ²head with its legs and with its inward parts.

And you shall not let any of it  ¹remain until the morning, but any of it that remains until the morning you shall burn with fire.

And this is how you shall eat it:  ¹with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste. It is Jehovah's  ²passover.

For I will pass through the land of Egypt on that night and will strike all the  ¹firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast. Also against all the  ²gods of Egypt I will execute judgments. I am Jehovah.

And the blood shall be a sign for you upon the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and there will be no plague upon you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

And this day will be a  ¹memorial to you, and you shall keep it as a  ²feast to Jehovah; throughout your generations as a perpetual statute you shall keep it as a feast.

 ¹Seven days you shall eat  ²unleavened bread; on the first day you shall remove leaven out of your houses, for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, that  ³person shall be cut off from Israel.

And on the first day you shall have a holy convocation, and on the seventh day a holy convocation.  ¹No work at all shall be done on them, except to prepare what every person will eat; that alone may be done by you.

And you shall keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this very day I have brought your armies out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall keep this day throughout your generations as a perpetual statute.

In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month in the evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month in the evening.

For seven days no leaven shall be found in your houses. For whoever eats what is leavened, that person shall be cut off from the assembly of Israel, whether a sojourner or a native of the land.

You shall eat nothing leavened; in all your dwelling places you shall eat unleavened bread.

Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, Draw out and take lambs according to your families, and slaughter the passover.

And you shall take a bunch of  ¹hyssop and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and you shall apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and to the two doorposts; and none of you shall go  ²outside the entrance of his house until the morning.

For Jehovah will pass through to smite the Egyptians; and when He sees the blood upon the lintel and on the two doorposts, Jehovah will pass over the entrance and will not allow the destroyer to come into your houses to smite you.

And you shall observe this matter as a statute for you and for your sons in perpetuity.

And when you come to the land which Jehovah will give you, as He has promised, you shall observe this service.

And when your children say to you, What do you mean by this service?

You shall say, It is the passover sacrifice to Jehovah, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians and delivered our houses. And the people bowed and worshipped.

And the children of Israel went and did so; just as Jehovah had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

And at midnight Jehovah  ¹struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of cattle.

And Pharaoh arose in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians; and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was no house where there was not someone dead.

And he called for Moses and Aaron in the night and said, Rise up, go out from the midst of my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve Jehovah, as you have said.

Take both your flocks and your herds, as you have said; and go and bless me also.

And the Egyptians  ¹urged the people on, so as to hasten their departure out of the land, for they said, All of us will be dead.

And the people took their dough before it was  ¹leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their clothes upon their shoulders.

And the children of Israel did according to the word of Moses, and they asked the Egyptians for articles of silver and gold and for clothing.

And Jehovah gave the people favor in the sight of the Egyptians, so that they let them have what they asked. Thus they  ¹plundered the Egyptians.

And the children of Israel journeyed from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides children.

And a  ¹mixed multitude went up also with them, as well as flocks and herds, a very large number of livestock.

And they baked the dough which they brought out of Egypt into unleavened cakes, for it had not been leavened because they were driven out of Egypt and could not delay; nor had they prepared for themselves any provisions.

Now the time of the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in  ¹Egypt, was  ²four hundred thirty years.

And at the end of four hundred thirty years, on that very day, all the armies of Jehovah went out from the land of Egypt.

It was for Jehovah a night of  ¹watching, to bring them out from the land of Egypt. That same night is a night of  ¹watching to Jehovah for all the children of Israel throughout their generations.

And Jehovah said to Moses and Aaron, This is the statute of the passover: No  ¹foreigner shall eat of it.

However, any man's servant who is bought with money, when you have circumcised him, then he shall eat of it.

A sojourner and a hired servant shall not eat of it.

It shall be eaten in one house. You shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, nor shall you break any of its  ¹bones.

All the assembly of Israel shall keep it.

But if a stranger sojourns with you and will observe the Passover to Jehovah, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near to observe it; and he will be like one who is a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.

One law shall be for the native and for the stranger who sojourns among you.

And all the children of Israel did so; just as Jehovah commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

And on that very day Jehovah brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt by their  ¹armies.

Then Jehovah spoke to Moses, saying,

 ¹Sanctify to Me all the firstborn: Whatever opens the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast, it is Mine.

And Moses said to the people, Remember this day on which you came out from Egypt, from the slave house, for by  ¹strength of hand Jehovah brought you out from this place; and nothing leavened shall be eaten.

On this day in the month of  ¹Abib you are going out.

And when Jehovah brings you into the land of the Canaanites and the Hittites and the Amorites and the Hivites and the Jebusites, which He swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, you shall observe this service in this month:

Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be a feast to Jehovah.

Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days, and nothing leavened shall be seen with you, nor shall any leaven be seen with you in all your territory.

And you shall tell your son in that day, saying, It is because of what Jehovah did for me when I came out of Egypt.

And it shall be for a sign to you upon your hand and for a  ¹memorial between your eyes, that the  ²law of Jehovah may be in your mouth; for with a mighty hand Jehovah brought you out of Egypt.

You shall therefore keep this statute at its appointed time from year to year.

And when Jehovah brings you into the land of the Canaanites, as He swore to you and to your fathers, and gives it to you,

You shall set apart to Jehovah everything that opens the womb and the first offspring of every beast which is yours; the males shall be Jehovah's.

And every  ¹first offspring of a donkey you shall redeem with a lamb; and if you do not redeem it, you shall break its neck. And every  ¹firstborn male among your sons you shall redeem.

And when your son asks you in time to come, saying, What is this? you shall say to him, By strength of hand Jehovah brought us out from Egypt, from the slave house.

And when Pharaoh hardened himself against letting us go, Jehovah slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast. Therefore I am one who sacrifices to Jehovah every male that opens the womb; and all the firstborn of my sons I redeem.

So it will be as a sign upon your hand and as frontlets between your eyes, for by strength of hand Jehovah brought us out of Egypt.

Now when Pharaoh let the people go, God did not  ¹lead them by the way of the land of the Philistines, although that was near; for God said, Perhaps the people will change their minds when they see war and will return to Egypt.

Thus God led the people  ¹around by the way of the wilderness to the Red Sea. And the children of Israel went up arrayed for battle out of the land of Egypt.

And Moses took the  ¹bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had made the children of Israel solemnly swear, saying, God will surely visit you, and you shall bring my bones up from here with you.

And they journeyed from Succoth and encamped in Etham on the edge of the wilderness.

And Jehovah went before them by day in a pillar of  ¹cloud to lead them on the way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, that they might go by day and by night.

Neither the pillar of cloud by day nor the pillar of fire by night departed from before the people.