Exodus 12:2
12:2 “This month is to be your beginning of months; it will be your first month of the year.
Exodus 12:14
12:14 This day will become a memorial for you, and you will celebrate it as a festival to the Lord – you will celebrate it perpetually as a lasting ordinance.
Exodus 12:17
12:17 So you will keep the Feast of Unleavened Bread, because on this very
day I brought your regiments
out from the land of Egypt, and so you must keep this day perpetually as a lasting ordinance.
Exodus 12:24-27
12:24 You must observe this event as an ordinance for you and for your children forever.
12:25 When you enter the land that the
Lord will give to you, just as he said, you must observe
this ceremony.
12:26 When your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’
–
12:27 then you will say, ‘It is the sacrifice
of the
Lord’s Passover, when he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt, when he struck
Egypt and delivered our households.’” The people bowed down low
to the ground,
Exodus 12:42
12:42 It was a night of vigil for the
Lord to bring them out from the land of Egypt,
and so
on this night all Israel is to keep the vigil
to the
Lord for generations to come.