Common English Bible

Exodus 12:20-26 Common English Bible (CEB)

20. You should not eat anything made with yeast in all your settlements. You should eat only unleavened bread."

21. Then Moses called together all of Israel’s elders and said to them, "Go pick out one of the flock for your families, and slaughter the Passover lamb.

22. Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood that is in the bowl, and touch the beam above the door and the two doorposts with the blood in the bowl. None of you should go out the door of your house until morning.

23. When the Lord comes by to strike down the Egyptians and sees the blood on the beam above the door and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over that door. He won’t let the destroyer enter your houses to strike you down.

24. You should observe this ritual as a regulation for all time for you and your children.

25. When you enter the land that the Lord has promised to give you, be sure that you observe this ritual.

26. And when your children ask you, ‘What does this ritual mean to you?’