¹³ The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over^(A) you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.^(B)

¹⁴ “This is a day you are to commemorate;^(C) for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance.^{(D) 15} For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast.^(E) On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut off^(F) from Israel. ¹⁶ On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work^(G) at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.

¹⁷ “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread,^(H) because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt.^(I) Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.^{(J) 18} In the first month^(K) you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day. ¹⁹ For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreigner^(L) or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off^(M) from the community of Israel. ²⁰ Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live,^(N) you must eat unleavened bread.”^(O)