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'You shall also keep ^(C1)the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this ^(C2)very day I brought your ^(F1)multitudes out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall keep this day throughout your generations as ^(C3)a ^(F2)permanent ordinance.

'^(C1)In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.

'For ^(C1)seven days there shall be no dough with yeast found in your houses; for whoever eats anything with yeast, that ^(F1)(C2)person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a native of the land.

'You shall not eat anything with yeast; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.'"

Then ^(C1)Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go and ^(C2)take for yourselves ^(F1)lambs according to your families, and slaughter ^(C3)the Passover lamb.

"And ^(C1)you shall take a bunch of hyssop and dip it in the blood which is in the basin, and ^(F1)apply some of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts; and none of you shall go outside the door of his house until morning.

"For ^(C1)the LORD will pass through to strike the Egyptians; but when He sees the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, the LORD will pass over the door and will ^(C2)not allow the ^(C3)destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.

"And ^(C1)you shall keep this event as an ordinance for you and your children forever.

"When you enter the land which the LORD will give you, as He has ^(F1)promised, you shall keep this ^(F2)rite.

"^(C1)And when your children say to you, '^(F1)What does this rite mean to you?'

then you shall say, 'It is a Passover sacrifice to ^(C1)the LORD because He passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians, but ^(F1)spared our homes.'" ^(C2)And the people bowed low and worshiped.

Then the sons of Israel went and did so; just as the LORD had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.