Exodus 12:24

24 "And you will keep this event as a rule for you and for your children forever.

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 And take a bunch of hyssop and dip [it] into the blood that [is] in the basin and apply [some] of the blood that is in the basin to the lintel and the two doorposts. And you will not go out, anyone from the doorway of his house, until morning.

23 And Yahweh will go through to strike Egypt, and he will see the blood on the lintel and on the two doorposts, and Yahweh will pass over the doorway and will not allow the destroyer to come to your houses to strike [you].

24 "And you will keep this event as a rule for you and for your children forever.

25 {And} when you come into the land that Yahweh will give to you, as he said, you will keep this {religious custom}.

26 {And} when your children say to you, 'What [is] this {religious custom} for you?'

Footnotes

• [a]. Or "until eternity"