Exodus 12:14-28

New American Standard Bible

Feast of Unleavened Bread

¹⁴‘Now ^(A)this day shall be ^(B)a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as ^[a]^(C)a permanent ordinance. ¹⁵For ^(D)seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall remove dough with yeast from your houses; for whoever eats anything with yeast from the first day until the seventh day, ^(E)that ^[b]person shall be cut off from Israel. ¹⁶And ^(F)on the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and another holy assembly on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, except for what must be eaten by every person—that alone may be ^[c]prepared by you. ¹⁷You shall also keep ^(G)the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this ^(H)very day I brought your ^[d]multitudes out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall keep this day throughout your generations as ^(I)a ^[e]permanent ordinance. ¹⁸^(J)In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. ¹⁹For ^(K)seven days there shall be no dough with yeast found in your houses; for whoever eats anything with yeast, that ^[f]^(L)person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a native of the land. ²⁰You shall not eat anything with yeast; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’”

²¹Then ^(M)Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go and ^(N)take for yourselves ^[g]lambs according to your families, and slaughter ^(O)the Passover lamb. ²²And ^(P)you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and ^[h]apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts; and none of you shall go outside the door of his house until morning.

A Memorial of Redemption

²³For ^(Q)the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; but when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and will ^(R)not allow the ^(S)destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you. ²⁴And ^(T)you shall keep this event as an ordinance for you and your children forever. ²⁵When you enter the land which the Lord will give you, as He has ^[i]promised, you shall keep this ^[j]rite. ²⁶^(U)And when your children say to you, ‘^[k]What does this rite mean to you?’ ²⁷then you shall say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice to ^(V)the Lord because He passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians, but ^[l]spared our homes.’” ^(W)And the people bowed low and worshiped.