Exodus 12:25-33

25“When you come into the land which Adonai will give you as He has promised, you are to keep this ceremony.

26Now when it happens that your children ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you?’

27You are to say, ‘It is the sacrifice of Adonai’s Passover, because He passed over the houses of Bnei-Yisrael in Egypt, when He struck down the Egyptians, but spared our households.’” So the people bowed their heads and worshipped.

28Then Bnei-Yisrael went and did it. They did just as Adonai had commanded Moses and Aaron.

29So it came about at midnight that Adonai struck down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh sitting on his throne to the firstborn of the captive who was in the dungeon, and all the firstborn cattle.

30Then Pharaoh rose up in the night, he and all his servants and all the Egyptians, and there was loud wailing in Egypt. For there was not a house where someone was not dead.

31So he called for Moses and Aaron at night and said, “Rise up, go out from my people, both you and Bnei-Yisrael, go, serve Adonai as you have said.

32Take your flocks and your herds, as you said, and be gone! But bless me, too.”

33Now the Egyptians urged the people, sending them out of the land quickly, for they thought, “We will all be dead!”