^18 (A)In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. ¹⁹ For ^(B)seven days there shall be no dough with yeast found in your houses; for whoever eats anything with yeast, that ^[a](C)person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a stranger or a native of the land.

¹⁶ ‘^(A)The Lord’s Passover shall be on the fourteenth day of the first month. ^17 (B)On the fifteenth day of this month there shall be a ^(C)feast; unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven days. ¹⁸ On the ^(D)first day there shall be a holy assembly; you shall do no laborious work. ¹⁹ But you shall present an offering by fire, a burnt offering to the Lord: two ^[a]bulls and one ram, and seven male lambs one year old, that you have ^(E)without defect. ²⁰ For their grain offering, you shall offer fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths of an ephah for a bull, and two-tenths for the ram. ²¹ A tenth of an ephah you shall offer for ^[b]each of the seven lambs; ²² and one male goat as a ^(F)sin offering to make atonement for you. ²³ You shall present these besides ^(G)the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering. ²⁴ In this way you shall present daily, for seven days, ^(H)the food of the offering by fire, of a soothing aroma to the Lord; it shall be presented with its drink offering in addition to the ^(I)continual burnt offering. ²⁵ On the seventh day you shall have a holy assembly; ^(J)you shall do no laborious work.

The Feasts of Passover, of Weeks, and of Booths

16 “Observe ^(A)the month of Abib and ^[a](B)celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God, for in the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

¹⁰ While the sons of Israel camped at Gilgal ^(A)they celebrated the Passover on the evening of the ^(B)fourteenth day of the month on the desert plains of Jericho.