² that you may tell your children^(A) and grandchildren how I dealt harshly^(B) with the Egyptians and how I performed my signs among them, and that you may know that I am the Lord.”^(C)

⁴² Because the Lord kept vigil that night to bring them out of Egypt, on this night all the Israelites are to keep vigil to honor the Lord for the generations to come.^(A)