24"Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants.


In Context

21 Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel and said to them, "Go at once and select the animals for your families and slaughter the Passover lamb.

22 Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe. Not one of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.

23 When the Lord goes through the land to strike down the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway, and he will not permit the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.

24 "Obey these instructions as a lasting ordinance for you and your descendants.

25 When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as he promised, observe this ceremony.

26 And when your children ask you, 'What does this ceremony mean to you?'

Exodus 12:24 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:24And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

12:24Thou shalt keep this thing as a law for thee and thy children for ever.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

12:24And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:24And ye shall observe this as an ordinance for thee and for thy sons for ever.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

12:24And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:24And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

12:24You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

12:24And ye have observed this thing, for a statute to thee, and to thy sons — unto the age;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

12:24And you shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons for ever.