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.
24
And ye shall be shomer over this word as a chok (ordinance) to thee and your children ad olam (forever).
25
And it shall come to pass, when ye come to ha’aretz which Hashem will give to you, according as He hath promised, that ye shall be shomer over this avodah.
26
And it shall come to pass, when your banim shall say unto you, Mah haavodah hazot lachem (What is this avodah to you)?
27
That ye shall say, It is the zevach of Hashem’s Pesach, who pasach (passed over, skipped, spared) the batim (households) of the Bnei Yisroel in Mitzrayim, when He struck down the Egyptians, and spared bateinu (our houses). And the people bowed down and worshiped.
28
And the Bnei Yisroel went away, and did as Hashem had commanded Moshe and Aharon, so did they.
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