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20 Eat nothing that has yeast in it. Whatever country you live in, you must eat bread without yeast in it.’

21 Then Moses called the leaders of the Israelites to come to him. He said to them, ‘Go immediately and choose a lamb for each of your families. Then kill the animals for the Passover feast. 22 Put the blood into a dish. Then take a branch of hyssop.[a] Make it wet with the blood that is in the dish. Then put some of the blood on the wood that is round your door. Nobody must go out of the door of his house until the morning.

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Footnotes

  1. 12:22 ‘Hyssop’ is a plant with lots of leaves. They held the hyssop in the hand and they used it like a paint brush. They painted some of the blood on the pieces of wood round the doors.