25. When you come to the land which the Lord will give you, as He has promised, you shall keep this service.
26. When your children shall say to you, What do you mean by this service?
27. You shall say, It is the sacrifice of the Lord's Passover, for He passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He slew the Egyptians but spared our houses. And the people bowed their heads and worshiped.
28. The Israelites went and, as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.
29. At midnight the Lord slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of the livestock.
30. Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, 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 Israelites; and go, serve the Lord, as you said.
32. Also take your flocks and your herds, as you have said, and be gone! And [ask your God to] bless me also.
33. The Egyptians were urgent with the people to depart, that they might send them out of the land in haste; for they said, We are all dead men.
34. The people took their dough before it was leavened, their kneading bowls being bound up in their clothes on their shoulders.