Context 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 observe1 this ceremony.
[12:25]1tn The verb used here and at the beginning of v. 24 is שָׁמַר (shamar); it can be translated “watch, keep, protect,” but in this context the point is to “observe” the religious customs and practices set forth in these instructions.
