24. You and your children must obey these rules for ever.
25. When you enter the land that the Lord has promised to give you, you must perform this ritual.
26. When your children ask you, ‘What does this ritual mean?’
27. you will answer, ‘It is the sacrifice of Passover to honour the Lord, because he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt. He killed the Egyptians, but spared us.’ ”The Israelites knelt down and worshipped.
28. Then they went and did what the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.