Exodus 12:14–20

¹⁴“This day is to be a memorial for you, and you must celebrate it as a festival to the Lord. You are to celebrate it throughout your generations as a permanent statute. ^w15You must eat unleavened bread for seven days. On the first day you must remove yeast ^xfrom your houses. Whoever eats what is leavened from the first day through the seventh day must be cut off ^yfrom Israel. ¹⁶You are to hold a sacred assembly ^zon the first day and another sacred assembly on the seventh day. No work may be done on those days except for preparing what people need to eat—you may do only that.

¹⁷“You are to observe the Festival of Unleavened Bread because on this very day I brought your divisions out of the land of Egypt. ^aYou must observe this day throughout your generations as a permanent statute. ¹⁸You are to eat unleavened bread in the first month, ^bfrom the evening of the fourteenth day of the month until the evening of the twenty-first day. ¹⁹Yeast must not be found in your houses for seven days. If anyone eats something leavened, that person, whether a foreign resident or native of the land, must be cut off from the community of Israel. ²⁰Do not eat anything leavened; eat unleavened bread in all your homes.” ^c