Exodus 12:24

24 "You must keep this command as a law for you and your descendants from now on.

Exodus 12:24 Meaning and Commentary

Exodus 12:24

And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and
thy sons for ever.
] Not this last thing of sprinkling the blood, which was peculiar to the passover in Egypt; but the whole before observed relating to the feast of the passover, and the feast of unleavened bread, and all the rites appertaining to them, which were to be observed until the coming of Christ.

Exodus 12:24 In-Context

22 Take a branch of the hyssop plant, dip it into the bowl filled with blood, and then wipe the blood on the sides and tops of the doorframes. No one may leave that house until morning.

23 When the Lord goes through Egypt to kill the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the sides and tops of the doorframes, and he will pass over that house. He will not let the one who brings death come into your houses and kill you.

24 "You must keep this command as a law for you and your descendants from now on.

25 Do this when you go to the land the Lord has promised to give you.

26 When your children ask you, 'Why are we doing these things?'