12 “On that same night I will pass throughh Egypt and strike downi every firstbornj of both people and animals, and I will bring judgment on all the godsk of Egypt. I am the Lord.l 13 The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass overm you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.n

14 “This is a day you are to commemorate;o for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance.p 15 For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast.q On the first day remove the yeast from your houses, for whoever eats anything with yeast in it from the first day through the seventh must be cut offr from Israel. 16 On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no works at all on these days, except to prepare food for everyone to eat; that is all you may do.

17 “Celebrate the Festival of Unleavened Bread,t because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt.u Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.v 18 In the first monthw you are to eat bread made without yeast, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day. 19 For seven days no yeast is to be found in your houses. And anyone, whether foreignerx or native-born, who eats anything with yeast in it must be cut offy from the community of Israel.