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Exodus 12:17

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Celebrate this Festival of Thin Bread as a way of remembering the day that I brought your families and tribes out of Egypt. And do this each year.

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Remember this day and celebrate it each year as a festival in my honour.

After you have entered the country promised to you by the LORD, you and your children must continue to celebrate Passover each year.

Each family must take care of its animal until the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, when the animals are to be killed.

Celebrate this festival each year at the same time.

Moses said to the people: Remember this day in the month of Abib. It is the day when the LORD's mighty power rescued you from Egypt, where you were slaves. Do not eat anything made with yeast.

Then on the seventh day you must explain to your children that you do this because the LORD brought you out of Egypt.

Don't fail to observe the Festival of Thin Bread in the month of Abib. Obey me and eat bread without yeast for seven days during Abib, because that is the month you left Egypt.

The LORD had commanded Aaron and Moses to lead every family and tribe of Israel out of Egypt,

When this happens, the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.

and when we begged our LORD for help, he answered our prayer and brought us out of that land. Now we are camped at the border of your territory, near the town of Kadesh.

Eat all the meat of the Passover sacrifice that same night. But don't serve bread made with yeast at the Passover meal. Serve the same kind of thin bread that you ate when you were slaves suffering in Egypt and when you had to leave Egypt quickly. As long as you live, this thin bread will remind you of the day you left Egypt. For seven days following Passover, don't make any bread with yeast. In fact, there should be no yeast anywhere in Israel.




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