^{14 Ref} And this day is to be kept in your memories: you are to keep it as a feast to the Lord through all your generations, as an order for ever.

^{15 Ref} For seven days let your food be unleavened bread; from the first day no leaven is to be seen in your houses: whoever takes bread with leaven in it, from the first till the seventh day, will be cut off from Israel.

^{16 Ref} And on the first day there is to be a holy meeting and on the seventh day a holy meeting; no sort of work may be done on those days but only to make ready what is necessary for everyone's food.

^{17 Ref} So keep the feast of unleavened bread; for on this very day I have taken your armies out of the land of Egypt: this day, then, is to be kept through all your generations by an order for ever.

^{18 Ref} In the first month, from the evening of the fourteenth day, let your food be unleavened bread till the evening of the twenty-first day of the month.

^{19 Ref} For seven days no leaven is to be seen in your houses: for whoever takes bread which is leavened will be cut off from the people of Israel, if he is from another country or if he is an Israelite by birth.

²⁰ Take nothing which has leaven in it; wherever you are living let your food be unleavened cakes.

^{21 Ref} Then Moses sent for the chiefs of Israel, and said to them, See that lambs are marked out for yourselves and your families, and let the Passover lamb be put to death.

^{22 Ref} And take some hyssop and put it in the blood in the basin, touching the two sides and the top of the doorway with the blood from the basin; and let not one of you go out of his house till the morning.

^{23 Ref} For the Lord will go through the land, sending death on the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the two sides and the top of the door, the Lord will go over your door and will not let death come in for your destruction.

^{24 Ref} And you are to keep this as an order to you and to your sons for ever.

^{25 Ref} And when you come into the land which the Lord will make yours, as he gave his word, you are to keep this act of worship.

^{26 Ref} And when your children say to you, What is the reason of this act of worship?

^{27 Ref} Then you will say, This is the offering of the Lord's Passover; for he went over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he sent death on the Egyptians, and kept our families safe. And the people gave worship with bent heads.

^{28 Ref} And the children of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had given orders to Moses and Aaron, so they did.