Exodus 12:26

26 When your children ask you, 'What does this ritual mean to you?'

Exodus 12:26 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 12:26

And it shall come to pass, when your children shall say unto
you, what mean ye by this service?
] Of killing and roasting a lamb, and eating it with bitter herbs, and of abstaining from leavened bread.

Exodus 12:26 In-Context

24 "Keep this command permanently as a statute for you and your descendants.
25 When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as He promised, you are to observe this ritual.
26 When your children ask you, 'What does this ritual mean to you?'
27 you are to reply, 'It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, for He passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and spared our homes.' " So the people bowed down and worshiped.
28 Then the Israelites went and did [this]; they did just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.
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