Rabbi Emanuel Shahar
Verses of the Exodus — a collection for Seder night
A collection of Torah verses on the Exodus from Egypt, remembrance of redemption and the covenant, for reading and study alongside the Haggadah. This collection does not replace the Seder’s commandments or the text of the Haggadah.
Text of the prayer
1. Exodus 12
You shall observe the unleavened bread, for on this very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; you shall observe this day throughout your generations as an everlasting statute.
2. Exodus 12
It is a night of watching for the LORD, to bring them out of the land of Egypt; this night belongs to the LORD, a vigil for all the children of Israel throughout their generations.
3. Exodus 12
On that very day the LORD brought the children of Israel out of the land of Egypt, by their hosts.
4. Exodus 13
Moses said to the people: Remember this day on which you came out of Egypt, from the house of slavery, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of here; no leaven shall be eaten.
5. Exodus 13
You shall tell your child on that day: It is because of what the LORD did for me when I came out of Egypt.
6. Exodus 13
It shall be a sign upon your hand and a remembrance between your eyes, so that the Torah of the LORD may be in your mouth; for with a mighty hand the LORD brought you out of Egypt.
7. Exodus 13
When your child asks you in time to come, ‘What is this?’ say: With a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
8. Exodus 13
It shall be a sign upon your hand and frontlets between your eyes, for with a mighty hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.
9. Exodus 16
Moses and Aaron said to all the children of Israel: In the evening you shall know that the LORD brought you out of the land of Egypt.
10. Exodus 16
Moses said: This is what the LORD commanded: Keep an omerful of it for your generations, so that they may see the bread I fed you in the wilderness when I brought you out of the land of Egypt.
11. Exodus 18
Jethro, priest of Midian and Moses’ father-in-law, heard all that God had done for Moses and for Israel His people, how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.
12. Exodus 19
In the third month after the children of Israel left the land of Egypt, on this day they came to the wilderness of Sinai.
13. Exodus 20
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before Me.
14. Exodus 23
The festival of harvest, the first fruits of your work that you sow in the field, and the festival of ingathering at the year’s end, when you gather the fruits of your work from the field.
15. Exodus 29
They shall know that I am the LORD their God, who brought them out of the land of Egypt to dwell among them. I am the LORD their God.
16. Exodus 34
Observe the festival of unleavened bread: for seven days eat unleavened bread as I commanded you, at the appointed time in the month of Aviv, for in the month of Aviv you came out of Egypt.
17. Leviticus 19
You shall have honest scales, honest weights, an honest ephah and an honest hin. I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt.
18. Leviticus 22
Who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD.
19. Leviticus 23
So that your generations may know that I made the children of Israel dwell in booths when I brought them out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
20. Leviticus 25
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to give you the land of Canaan and to be your God.
21. Leviticus 25
For they are My servants, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt; they shall not be sold as slaves are sold.
22. Leviticus 25
For the children of Israel are servants to Me; they are My servants whom I brought out of the land of Egypt. I am the LORD your God.
23. Leviticus 26
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt so that you would no longer be their slaves. I broke the bars of your yoke and made you walk upright.
24. Leviticus 26
I shall remember for them the covenant with their ancestors, whom I brought out of the land of Egypt before the eyes of the nations, to be their God. I am the LORD.
25. Numbers 15
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt to be your God. I am the LORD your God.
26. Numbers 23
God brings them out of Egypt; He has the strength of a wild ox.
27. Numbers 24
God brings him out of Egypt; he has the strength of a wild ox. He shall devour the nations that are his foes, gnaw their bones and shatter them with his arrows.
28. Numbers 33
These are the journeys of the children of Israel, who left the land of Egypt by their hosts, under the leadership of Moses and Aaron.
29. Numbers 33
They journeyed from Rameses in the first month, on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the day after the Passover offering, the children of Israel went out with uplifted hand before the eyes of all Egypt.
30. Deuteronomy 4
But the LORD took you and brought you out of the iron furnace, out of Egypt, to be His own people, as you are this day.
31. Deuteronomy 4
Because He loved your ancestors and chose their offspring after them, He brought you out of Egypt in His presence, with His great power.
32. Deuteronomy 5
I am the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery. You shall have no other gods before Me.
33. Deuteronomy 5
Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt, and the LORD your God brought you out with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm; therefore the LORD your God commanded you to observe the Sabbath day.
34. Deuteronomy 6
Take care lest you forget the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
35. Deuteronomy 6
When your child asks you in time to come: What are the testimonies, statutes and judgments that the LORD our God commanded you?
Tell your child: We were slaves to Pharaoh in Egypt, and the LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
The LORD set great and terrible signs and wonders upon Egypt, Pharaoh and all his household before our eyes.
He brought us out from there to bring us in and give us the land He swore to our ancestors.
36. Deuteronomy 7
Because the LORD loved you and kept the oath He swore to your ancestors, the LORD brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you from the house of slavery, from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt.
37. Deuteronomy 7
Do not fear them; remember well what the LORD your God did to Pharaoh and to all Egypt.
The great trials your eyes saw, the signs and wonders, the mighty hand and outstretched arm by which the LORD your God brought you out—so shall the LORD your God do to all the peoples you fear.
38. Deuteronomy 8
Take care lest you forget the LORD your God by failing to keep His commandments, judgments and statutes that I command you today.
Lest you eat and be satisfied, build good houses and dwell in them,
your herds and flocks multiply, your silver and gold increase and all you have grows,
and your heart becomes proud and you forget the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
39. Deuteronomy 9
I prayed to the LORD and said: Lord GOD, do not destroy Your people and Your inheritance, whom You redeemed in Your greatness and brought out of Egypt with a mighty hand.
Remember Your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob; do not look upon this people’s stubbornness, wickedness or sin.
Lest the land from which You brought us out say: Because the LORD could not bring them into the land He promised, and because He hated them, He brought them out to kill them in the wilderness.
Yet they are Your people and Your inheritance, whom You brought out with Your great power and Your outstretched arm.
40. Deuteronomy 13
If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or wonder,
and the sign or wonder he spoke of comes to pass, and he says: Let us follow other gods whom you have not known, and serve them,
do not listen to that prophet or dreamer, for the LORD your God is testing you, to know whether you love the LORD your God with all your heart and all your soul.
Follow the LORD your God, revere Him, keep His commandments, listen to His voice, serve Him and cling to Him.
That prophet or dreamer shall be put to death, because he spoke rebellion against the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, seeking to turn you from the way the LORD your God commanded you to walk. Thus you shall remove the evil from among you.
41. Deuteronomy 13
If your brother, your mother’s son, your son or daughter, your cherished wife or your friend who is like your own soul secretly entices you, saying: Let us go and serve other gods whom neither you nor your ancestors have known,
from the gods of the peoples around you, near or far, from one end of the earth to the other,
do not consent to him or listen to him; do not pity him, spare him or conceal him.
You shall surely put him to death; your hand shall be the first against him to kill him, and afterward the hand of all the people.
Stone him to death, because he sought to turn you away from the LORD your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, from the house of slavery.
42. Deuteronomy 15
Remember that you were a slave in the land of Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you; therefore I command you this today.
43. Deuteronomy 16
Observe the month of Aviv and celebrate Passover for the LORD your God, for in the month of Aviv the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt at night.
Sacrifice the Passover offering to the LORD your God, from flock and herd, in the place the LORD chooses for His Name to dwell.
44. Deuteronomy 16
Only at the place the LORD your God chooses for His Name to dwell shall you sacrifice the Passover offering, in the evening at sunset, the time of your departure from Egypt.
45. Deuteronomy 24
Remember that you were a slave in Egypt and the LORD your God redeemed you from there; therefore I command you to do this.
46. Deuteronomy 25
Remember what Amalek did to you on the way, when you came out of Egypt.
47. Deuteronomy 26
You shall declare before the LORD your God: My father was a wandering Aramean; he went down to Egypt and sojourned there few in number, and there became a great, mighty and numerous nation.
The Egyptians treated us harshly, afflicted us and imposed hard labor upon us.
We cried to the LORD, God of our ancestors, and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, toil and oppression.
The LORD brought us out of Egypt with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm, with great awe, signs and wonders.
May it be Your will, LORD our God and God of our ancestors, to act for the sake of Your mercy and kindness and of the verses we have read before You, which mention Israel’s Exodus from Egypt and correspond to the gates of Understanding, from which an abundance of redemption flowed to Israel. Have compassion upon us in Your great mercy and kindness; bestow upon us abundant redemption and freedom from the gates of Understanding. Redeem us completely from every trouble and distress for Your Name’s sake, for You are a mighty redeeming God, and free us from every servitude to flesh and blood. Draw near to my soul and redeem it; ransom me because of my enemies. It is said: Contend, LORD, with those who contend with me; fight those who fight me. I have wiped away your transgressions like a thick cloud and your sins like a cloud; return to Me, for I have redeemed you. For a day of vengeance is in My heart, and the year of My redeemed has come. For the LORD has a day of vengeance, a year of recompense for Zion’s cause. It is said: In all their distress He was distressed, and the angel of His presence saved them; in His love and compassion He redeemed them, lifted them and carried them all the days of old. Who is a God like You, bearing iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance? He does not retain His anger forever, for He delights in kindness.
He will again have compassion on us, subdue our iniquities, and You will cast all their sins into the depths of the sea. You will grant truth to Jacob and kindness to Abraham, as You swore to our ancestors in days of old. Our Redeemer—the LORD of Hosts is His Name, the Holy One of Israel. Blessed is the LORD forever, amen and amen.