16. The first day is to be a holy assembly for you as well as the seventh day. No manner of work is to be done on those days, except what is to be eaten by every person—that alone may be prepared by you.
17. So you are to observe the Feast of Matzot, for on this very same day have I brought your ranks out of the land of Egypt. Therefore you are to observe this day throughout your generations as an eternal ordinance.
18. During the first month in the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, you are to eat matzot , until the evening of the twenty-first day of the month.
19. For seven days no hametz is to be found in your houses, for whoever eats hametz, that soul will be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an outsider or one who is born in the land.
20. You are to eat no hametz; in all your houses you are to eat matzot .”
21. Then Moses called for all the elders of Israel and said to them, “Go, select lambs for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.