24. You must remember this command. This law is for you and your descendants forever.
25. You must remember to do this even when you go to the land the Lord is giving you.
26. When your children ask you, ‘Why are we doing this ceremony?’
27. you will say, ‘This Passover is to honor the Lord, because when we were in Egypt, he passed over the houses of Israel. He killed the Egyptians, but he saved the people in our houses.’” Then the people bowed down and worshiped the Lord.
28. The Lord had given this command to Moses and Aaron, so the Israelites did what the Lord commanded.
29. At midnight the Lord killed all the firstborn sons in Egypt, from the firstborn son of Pharaoh (who ruled Egypt) to the firstborn son of the prisoner sitting in jail. Also all the firstborn animals died.
30. That night someone died in every house in Egypt. Pharaoh, his officials, and all the people of Egypt began to cry loudly.