^18 (A)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. ^19 (B)Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that ^[a](C)person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land.

¹⁶ ‘^(A)Then on the fourteenth day of the first month shall be the Lord’s Passover. ^17 (B)On the fifteenth day of this month shall be a ^(C)feast, unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days. ¹⁸ On the ^(D)first day shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work. ¹⁹ You shall present an offering by fire, a burnt offering to the Lord: two ^[a]bulls and one ram and seven male lambs one year old, ^(E)having them without defect. ²⁰ For their grain offering, you shall offer fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ^[b]ephah for a bull and two-tenths for the ram. ²¹ A tenth of an ^[c]ephah you shall offer for ^[d]each of the seven lambs; ²² and one male goat for a ^(F)sin offering to make atonement for you. ²³ You shall present these besides ^(G)the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering. ²⁴ After this manner you shall present daily, for seven days, ^(H)the food of the offering by fire, of a soothing aroma to the Lord; it shall be presented with its drink offering in addition to the ^(I)continual burnt offering. ²⁵ On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation; ^(J)you shall do no laborious work.

The Feasts of Passover, of Weeks, and of Booths

16 “Observe ^(A)the month of Abib and ^[a](B)celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God, for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

¹⁰ While the sons of Israel camped at Gilgal ^(A)they observed the Passover on the evening of the ^(B)fourteenth day of the month on the desert plains of Jericho.