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Exodus 12:23-27 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

23. And Yahweh will go through to strike Egypt, and he will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and Yahweh will pass over the doorway and will not allow the destroyer to come to your houses to strike you.

24. “And you will keep this event as a rule for you and for your children forever.

25. And when you come into the land that Yahweh will give to you, as he said, you will keep this religious custom.

26. And when your children say to you, ‘What is this religious custom for you?’

27. you will say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice for Yahweh, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he struck Egypt; and he delivered our houses.’ ” And the people knelt down and they worshiped.

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