Exodus 13:2-12

2“Dedicate to me every firstborn among the Israelites. The first offspring to be born, of both humans and animals, belongs to me.”

3So Moses said to the people, “This is a day to remember forever—the day you left Egypt, the place of your slavery. Today the Lord has brought you out by the power of his mighty hand. (Remember, eat no food containing yeast.)

4On this day in early spring, in the month of Abib, you have been set free.

5You must celebrate this event in this month each year after the Lord brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites. (He swore to your ancestors that he would give you this land—a land flowing with milk and honey.)

6For seven days the bread you eat must be made without yeast. Then on the seventh day, celebrate a feast to the Lord.

7Eat bread without yeast during those seven days. In fact, there must be no yeast bread or any yeast at all found within the borders of your land during this time.

8“On the seventh day you must explain to your children, ‘I am celebrating what the Lord did for me when I left Egypt.’

9This annual festival will be a visible sign to you, like a mark branded on your hand or your forehead. Let it remind you always to recite this teaching of the Lord: ‘With a strong hand, the Lord rescued you from Egypt.’

10So observe the decree of this festival at the appointed time each year.

11“This is what you must do when the Lord fulfills the promise he swore to you and to your ancestors. When he gives you the land where the Canaanites now live,

12you must present all firstborn sons and firstborn male animals to the Lord, for they belong to him.