19. There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.
20. You shall eat nothing leavened. In all your habitations you shall eat unleavened bread.’”
21. Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel, and said to them, “Draw out, and take lambs according to your families, and kill the Passover.
22. You shall take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and strike the lintel and the two door posts with the blood that is in the basin; and none of you shall go out of the door of his house until the morning.
23. For the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when he sees the blood on the lintel, and on the two door posts, the Lord will pass over the door, and will not allow the destroyer to come in to your houses to strike you.
24. You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.
25. It shall happen when you have come to the land which the Lord will give you, according as he has promised, that you shall keep this service.
26. It will happen, when your children ask you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’
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 struck the Egyptians, and spared our houses.’”The people bowed their heads and worshiped.
28. The children of Israel went and did so; as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
29. At midnight, the Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who 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 one dead.
31. He called for Moses and Aaron by night, and said, “Rise up, get out from among my people, both you and the children of Israel; and go, serve the Lord, as you have said!