¹⁵ “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread;^(A) for seven days eat bread made without yeast, as I commanded you. Do this at the appointed time in the month of Aviv,^(B) for in that month you came out of Egypt.

“No one is to appear before me empty-handed.^(C)

The Last Supper^{(A)(B)(C)(D)(E)}

⁷ Then came the day of Unleavened Bread on which the Passover lamb had to be sacrificed.^(F)

The Passover^(A)

¹⁶ “‘On the fourteenth day of the first month the Lord’s Passover^(B) is to be held. ¹⁷ On the fifteenth day of this month there is to be a festival; for seven days^(C) eat bread made without yeast.^{(D) 18} On the first day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.^{(E) 19} Present to the Lord a food offering^(F) consisting of a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram and seven male lambs a year old, all without defect.^{(G) 20} With each bull offer a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah^(H) of the finest flour mixed with oil; with the ram, two-tenths;^{(I) 21} and with each of the seven lambs, one-tenth.^{(J) 22} Include one male goat as a sin offering^(K) to make atonement for you.^{(L) 23} Offer these in addition to the regular morning burnt offering. ²⁴ In this way present the food offering every day for seven days as an aroma pleasing to the Lord;^(M) it is to be offered in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering. ²⁵ On the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.

²⁰ Redeem the firstborn donkey with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, break its neck.^(A) Redeem all your firstborn sons.^(B)

“No one is to appear before me empty-handed.^(C)

¹⁶ Three times a year all your men must appear^(A) before the Lord your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread,^(B) the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles.^(C) No one should appear before the Lord empty-handed:^(D)

²¹ The king gave this order to all the people: “Celebrate the Passover^(A) to the Lord your God, as it is written in this Book of the Covenant.”^{(B) 22} Neither in the days of the judges who led Israel nor in the days of the kings of Israel and the kings of Judah had any such Passover been observed. ²³ But in the eighteenth year of King Josiah, this Passover was celebrated to the Lord in Jerusalem.^(C)

The Passover^(A)

16 Observe the month of Aviv^(B) and celebrate the Passover^(C) of the Lord your God, because in the month of Aviv he brought you out of Egypt by night. ² Sacrifice as the Passover to the Lord your God an animal from your flock or herd at the place the Lord will choose as a dwelling for his Name.^{(D) 3} Do not eat it with bread made with yeast, but for seven days eat unleavened bread, the bread of affliction,^(E) because you left Egypt in haste^(F)—so that all the days of your life you may remember the time of your departure from Egypt.^{(G) 4} Let no yeast be found in your possession in all your land for seven days. Do not let any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening^(H) of the first day remain until morning.^(I)

⁵ You must not sacrifice the Passover in any town the Lord your God gives you ⁶ except in the place he will choose as a dwelling for his Name. There you must sacrifice the Passover in the evening, when the sun goes down, on the anniversary^[a](J) of your departure from Egypt. ⁷ Roast^(K) it and eat it at the place the Lord your God will choose. Then in the morning return to your tents. ⁸ For six days eat unleavened bread and on the seventh day hold an assembly^(L) to the Lord your God and do no work.^(M)

⁵ The Lord’s Passover^(A) begins at twilight on the fourteenth day of the first month.^{(B) 6} On the fifteenth day of that month the Lord’s Festival of Unleavened Bread^(C) begins; for seven days^(D) you must eat bread made without yeast. ⁷ On the first day hold a sacred assembly^(E) and do no regular work. ⁸ For seven days present a food offering to the Lord.^(F) And on the seventh day hold a sacred assembly and do no regular work.’”