25. When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony.
26. And when your children ask you, “What does this ceremony mean to you?”
27. then tell them, “It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he struck down the Egyptians.” ’ Then the people bowed down and worshipped.
28. The Israelites did just what the Lord commanded Moses and Aaron.
29. At midnight the Lord struck down all the firstborn in Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh, who sat on the throne, to the firstborn of the prisoner, who was in the dungeon, and the firstborn of all the livestock as well.
30. Pharaoh and all his officials and all the Egyptians got up during the night, and there was loud wailing in Egypt, for there was not a house without someone dead.
31. During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, ‘Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship the Lord as you have requested.
32. Take your flocks and herds, as you have said, and go. And also bless me.’
33. The Egyptians urged the people to hurry and leave the country. ‘For otherwise,’ they said, ‘we will all die!’