24. “And you shall observe this thing as an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.
25. When you enter the land which the Lord will give you, according as He has promised, that you shall observe this service.
26. And when your children shall say to you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’
27. that you shall say, ‘It is the sacrifice of the Lord’s Passover, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when He smote the Egyptians, and delivered our households.’ ” And the people bowed down and worshipped.
28. Then the children of Israel went and did so. Just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
29. At midnight the Lord smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon and all the firstborn of livestock.
30. Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was a great cry in Egypt, for there was not a house where there was not someone dead.