Bible Verses

Moses’ Orders Moses called all Israel’s elders and said: “Select and take one animal for each family and slaughter the Passover lamb.

Nothing leavened is to be eaten; only unleavened bread is to be consumed.”

For seven days, there will be no leaven in your houses. Anyone who eats what is leavened will be cut off from the community of Israel, whether foreigner or native-born.

In the first month, from the fourteenth day in the evening to the twenty-first, you are to eat unleavened bread.

Celebrate the feast of unleavened bread because, on that day, I brought your armies out of Egypt. Celebrate it in future generations as an everlasting ordinance.

On the first day, there will be a sacred reunion and another on the seventh. No work is to be done on these days except what is necessary for food preparation.

The Unleavened Bread For seven days, you are to eat unleavened bread. From the first day, you are to remove all leaven from your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first to the seventh day will no longer live in Israel.

This is a day you are to remember and celebrate in honor of the Lord. It is to be kept as a festival day for all generations forever.

The blood on your houses will be the sign that you are there. I will see the blood and pass over you, and you will escape the mortal plague when I strike Egypt.

On that night, I shall go through Egypt and strike every firstborn in Egypt, men and animals; and I will even bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt, I, the Lord!