Exodus 12:26

26 When your children ask you, 'What do you mean by this ceremony?'

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 You are to observe this as a law, you and your descendants forever.

25 "When you come to the land which ADONAI will give you, as he has promised, you are to observe this ceremony.

26 When your children ask you, 'What do you mean by this ceremony?'

27 say, 'It is the sacrifice of ADONAI's Pesach [Passover], because [ADONAI] passed over the houses of the people of Isra'el in Egypt, when he killed the Egyptians but spared our houses.'"The people of Isra'el bowed their heads and worshipped.

28 Then the people of Isra'el went and did as ADONAI had ordered Moshe and Aharon - that is what they did.