22 Make a brush from a few small branches of a hyssop plant and dip the brush in the bowl that has the blood of the animal in it. Then brush some of the blood above the door and on the posts at each side of the door of your house. After this, everyone is to stay inside.
23 During that night the Lord will go through the country of Egypt and kill the firstborn son in every Egyptian family. He will see where you have put the blood, and he will not come into your house. His angel that brings death will pass over and not kill your firstborn sons.
24-25 After you have entered the country promised to you by the Lord, you and your children must continue to celebrate Passover each year.
26 Your children will ask you, “What are we celebrating?”
27 And you will answer, “The Passover animal is killed to honour the Lord. We do these things because on that night long ago the Lord passed over the homes of our people in Egypt. He killed the firstborn sons of the Egyptians, but he saved our children from death.”After Moses finished speaking, the people of Israel knelt down and worshipped the Lord.
28 Then they left and did what Moses and Aaron had told them to do.
29 At midnight the Lord killed the firstborn son of every Egyptian family, from the son of the king to the son of every prisoner in jail. He also killed the firstborn male of every animal that belonged to the Egyptians.