19. There should be no yeast in your houses for seven days. Whoever eats anything with yeast in it must be excluded from the community of Israel, whether he is an Israelite or not.
20. Eat nothing made with yeast. Wherever you live, you must eat ⌊only⌋ unleavened bread.”
21. Then Moses called for all the leaders of Israel. He said to them, “Pick out a lamb or a young goat for your families, and kill the Passover animal.
22. Take the branch of a hyssop plant, dip it in the blood which is in a bowl, and put some of the blood on the top and sides of the doorframes ⌊of your houses⌋. No one may leave the house until morning.
23. The Lord will go throughout Egypt to kill the Egyptians. When he sees the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe, he will pass over that doorway, and he will not let the destroyer come into your home to kill you.
24. “You must follow these instructions. They are a permanent law for you and your children.
25. When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony.
26. When your children ask you what this ceremony means to you,
27. you must answer, ‘It’s the Passover sacrifice in the Lord’s honor. The Lord passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt and spared our homes when he killed the Egyptians.’”Then the people knelt, bowing with their faces touching the ground.
28. The Israelites did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.
29. At midnight the Lord killed every firstborn male in Egypt from the firstborn son of Pharaoh who ruled the land to the firstborn son of the prisoner in jail, and also every firstborn animal.
30. Pharaoh, all his officials, and all the ⌊other⌋ Egyptians got up during the night. There was loud crying throughout Egypt because in every house someone had died.
31. Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron during the night. He said, “You and the Israelites must leave my people at once. Go, worship the Lord as you asked.