Exodus 13:3–16

³Then Moses said to the people, “Commemorate this day, the day you came out of Egypt,^a out of the land of slavery, because the Lord brought you out of it with a mighty hand.^b Eat nothing containing yeast.^{c 4}Today, in the month of Aviv,^d you are leaving. ⁵When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites,^e Hittites, Amorites, Hivites and Jebusites^f—the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey^g—you are to observe this ceremony^h in this month: ⁶For seven days eat bread made without yeast and on the seventh day hold a festivalⁱ to the Lord. ⁷Eat unleavened bread during those seven days; nothing with yeast in it is to be seen among you, nor shall any yeast be seen anywhere within your borders. ⁸On that day tell your son,^j ‘I do this because of what the Lord did for me when I came out of Egypt.’ ⁹This observance will be for you like a sign on your hand^k and a reminder on your forehead^l that this law of the Lord is to be on your lips. For the Lord brought you out of Egypt with his mighty hand.^{m 10}You must keep this ordinanceⁿ at the appointed time^o year after year.

¹¹“After the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites^p and gives it to you, as he promised on oath^q to you and your ancestors,^{r 12}you are to give over to the Lord the first offspring of every womb. All the firstborn males of your livestock belong to the Lord.^{s 13}Redeem with a lamb every firstborn donkey,^t but if you do not redeem it, break its neck.^u Redeem^v every firstborn among your sons.^w

¹⁴“In days to come, when your son^x asks you, ‘What does this mean?’ say to him, ‘With a mighty hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the land of slavery.^{y 15}When Pharaoh stubbornly refused to let us go, the Lord killed the firstborn of both people and animals in Egypt. This is why I sacrifice to the Lord the first male offspring of every womb and redeem each of my firstborn sons.’^{z 16}And it will be like a sign on your hand and a symbol on your forehead^a that the Lord brought us out of Egypt with his mighty hand.”