Exodus 13:14-16

New American Standard Bible 1995

^14 (A)And it shall be when your son asks you in time to come, saying, ‘What is this?’ then you shall say to him, ‘^(B)With a ^[a]powerful hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, from the house of ^[b]slavery. ¹⁵ It came about, when Pharaoh was stubborn about letting us go, that the ^(C)Lord killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast. Therefore, I sacrifice to the Lord the males, the first ^[c]offspring of every womb, but every firstborn of my sons I redeem.’ ¹⁶ So ^(D)it shall ^[d]serve as a sign on your hand and as ^[e]phylacteries ^[f]on your forehead, for with a ^[g]powerful hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt.”