¹³ The blood will be a sign for you on the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I will pass over^(A) you. No destructive plague will touch you when I strike Egypt.^(B)

¹⁴ “This is a day you are to commemorate;^(C) for the generations to come you shall celebrate it as a festival to the Lord—a lasting ordinance.^{(D) 15} For seven days you are to eat bread made without yeast.^(E) 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 off^(F) from Israel. ¹⁶ On the first day hold a sacred assembly, and another one on the seventh day. Do no work^(G) 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,^(H) because it was on this very day that I brought your divisions out of Egypt.^(I) Celebrate this day as a lasting ordinance for the generations to come.^(J)

The Exodus

³¹ During the night Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said, “Up! Leave my people, you and the Israelites! Go, worship^(A) the Lord as you have requested. ³² Take your flocks and herds,^(B) as you have said, and go. And also bless^(C) me.”

³³ The Egyptians urged the people to hurry^(D) and leave^(E) the country. “For otherwise,” they said, “we will all die!”^{(F) 34} So the people took their dough before the yeast was added, and carried it on their shoulders in kneading troughs^(G) wrapped in clothing.