Bible Verses About Passover: Design of

Then Moses called all the Elders of Israel, and saide vnto them, Choose out and take you for euerie of your housholdes a lambe, and kill the Passeouer.

And take a bunch of hyssop, and dip it in the blood that is in the basen, and strike the lintell, and the doore cheekes with the blood that is in the basen, and let none of you goe out at the doore of his house, vntill the morning.

For the Lord will passe by to smite the Egyptians: and when he seeth the blood vpon the lintel and on the two doore cheekes, the Lord wil passe ouer the doore, and wil not suffer the destroyer to come into your houses to plague you.

Therefore shall ye obserue this thing as an ordinance both for thee and thy sonnes for euer.

And when ye shall come into the land, which the Lord will giue you as hee hath promised, then ye shall keepe this seruice.

And when your children aske you, What seruice is this ye keepe?

Then ye shall saye, It is the sacrifice of the Lordes Passeouer, which passed ouer the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when he smote the Egyptians, and preserued our houses. Then the people bowed them selues, and worshipped.

So the children of Israel went, and did as the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron: so did they.