²⁶ When your children^(A) ask you, “What does this ceremony mean to you? ” ²⁷ you are to reply, “It is the Passover sacrifice^(B) to the Lord, for he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he struck the Egyptians, and he spared our homes.” ’ So the people knelt low and worshipped.

²⁰ ‘When your son asks you in the future, “What is the meaning^(A) of the decrees, statutes, and ordinances that the Lord our God has commanded you? ”