23. When the Lord passes through to strike Egypt and sees the blood on the lintel and the two doorposts, He will pass over the door and not let the destroyer enter your houses to strike you.
24. “Keep this command permanently as a statute for you and your descendants.
25. When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as He promised, you are to observe this ritual.
26. When your children ask you, ‘What does this ritual mean to you? ’
27. you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, for He passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and spared our homes.’ ” So the people bowed down and worshiped.
28. Then the Israelites went and did this; they did just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.
29. Now at midnight the Lord struck every firstborn male in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the prisoner who was in the dungeon, and every firstborn of the livestock.