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And Moses said to the people, “Remember this day, on which you came out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery; for by a mighty hand the Lord brought you out from here. And nothing leavened shall be eaten.
And it shall be, when the Lord your God brings you into the land of the Chananites and Chettites and Heuites and Gergesites and Amorrites and Pherezites and Iebousites, which he swore to your fathers to give you, a land flowing with milk and honey, then you shall perform this service in this month.
And it shall be for you a sign upon your hand and a memorial before your eyes, so that the law of the Lord may be in your mouth; for by a mighty hand the Lord God brought you out of Egypt.
you shall set apart to the Lord every male that opens the womb; every one that opens the womb from among your herds or among your livestock, whatever males are born to you, you shall sanctify to the Lord.
Every one that opens the womb of a donkey you shall exchange for a sheep; and if you do not exchange it, you shall redeem it. Every firstborn of man among your sons you shall redeem.
And if your son asks you afterward, saying, ‘What is this?’ then you shall say to him, ‘By a mighty hand the Lord brought us out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.’
And when Pharaoh hardened himself against sending us away, he killed every firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of men to the firstborn of livestock. For this reason I sacrifice to the Lord every male that opens the womb, and every firstborn of my sons I will redeem.’
And when Pharaoh sent the people away, God did not lead them by the way of the land of the Phylistiim, because it was near; for God said, “Lest the people regret it when they see war, and turn back to Egypt.”
And God led the people around by the way into the wilderness to the Red Sea. And it was in the fifth generation that the sons of Israel went up out of the land of Egypt.
And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him, for Joseph had solemnly adjured the sons of Israel, saying, “The Lord will surely visit you, and you shall carry up my bones from here with you.”