26 “And when your children say to you, ‘What does this rite mean to you?’

27 you shall say, ‘It is a Passover sacrifice to the Lord who passed over the houses of the sons of Israel in Egypt when He smote the Egyptians, but spared our homes.’ ” And the people bowed low and worshiped.

New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (La Habra, CA: The Lockman Foundation, 1995), Ex 12:26–27.