²⁴ “Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance^(A) for you and your descendants. ²⁵ When you enter the land^(B) that the Lord will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony.

⁵ When the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites,^(A) Hittites, Amorites, Hivites and Jebusites^(B)—the land he swore to your ancestors to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey^(C)—you are to observe this ceremony^(D) in this month: