^26 (A)When your children ask you, ‘What does this rite of yours mean?’ ²⁷ you will reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice for the Lord, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt; when he struck down the Egyptians, he delivered our houses.’”

Then the people knelt and bowed down,

⁷ Keep repeating them to your children. Recite them when you are at home and when you are away, when you lie down and when you get up.^(A)

Instruction to Children. ^20 (A)Later on, when your son asks you, “What do these decrees and statutes and ordinances mean?”^(B) which the Lord, our God, has enjoined on you, ^21 (C)you shall say to your son, “We were once slaves of Pharaoh in Egypt, but the Lord brought us out of Egypt with a strong hand^{(D) 22} and wrought before our eyes signs and wonders, great and dire, against Egypt and against Pharaoh and his whole house. ²³ He brought us from there to bring us in and give us the land he had promised on oath to our ancestors.^{(E) 24 (F)}The Lord commanded us to observe all these statutes in fear of the Lord, our God, that we may always have as good a life as we have today. ²⁵ This is our justice before the Lord, our God: to observe carefully this whole commandment he has enjoined on us.”