¹⁷ “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread,^(A) because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt.^(B) Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.^{(C) 18} In the first month^(D) 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^(E) or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut off^(F) from the community of Israel. ²⁰ Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live,^(G) you must eat unleavened bread.”^(H)

²¹ Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover^(I) lamb. ²² Take a bunch of hyssop,^(J) dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood^(K) on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out of the door of your house until morning. ²³ When the Lord goes through the land to strike^(L) down the Egyptians, he will see the blood^(M) on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over^(N) that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer^(O) to enter your houses and strike you down.

²⁴ “Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance^(P) for you and your descendants. ²⁵ When you enter the land^(Q) that the Lord will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony. ²⁶ And when your children^(R) ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’ ²⁷ then tell them, ‘It is the Passover^(S) sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.’”^(T) Then the people bowed down and worshiped.^{(U) 28} The Israelites did just what the Lord commanded^(V) Moses and Aaron.

⁵⁰ All the Israelites did just what the Lord had commanded^(A) Moses and Aaron. ⁵¹ And on that very day the Lord brought the Israelites out of Egypt^(B) by their divisions.^(C)