Exodus 12:21–29

²¹Then ^xMoses called for all the ^yelders of Israel and said to them, ^z“Pick out and take lambs for yourselves according to your families, and kill the Passover lamb. ^22aAnd you shall take a bunch of hyssop, dip it in the blood that is in the basin, and ^bstrike the lintel and the two doorposts with the blood that is in the basin. And none of you shall go out of the door of his house until morning. ^23cFor the Lord will pass through to strike the Egyptians; and when He sees the ^dblood on the ⁷lintel and on the two doorposts, the Lord will pass over the door and ^enot allow ^fthe destroyer to come into your houses to strike you. ²⁴And you shall ^gobserve this thing as an ordinance for you and your sons forever. ²⁵It will come to pass when you come to the land which the Lord will give you, ^hjust as He promised, that you shall keep this service. ²⁶ⁱAnd it shall be, when your children say to you, ‘What do you mean by this service?’ ²⁷that you shall say, ^j‘It is the Passover sacrifice of the Lord, who passed over the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt when He struck the Egyptians and delivered our households.’ ” So the people ^kbowed their heads and worshiped. ²⁸Then the children of Israel went away and ^ldid so; just as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron, so they did.

The Tenth Plague: Death of the Firstborn

^29mAnd it came to pass at midnight that ⁿthe Lord struck all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh who sat on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was ⁸in the dungeon, and all the firstborn of ^olivestock.