Exodus 12:24
Good News Translation
You and your children must obey these rules forever.

New Revised Standard Version
You shall observe this rite as a perpetual ordinance for you and your children.

New American Bible
“You will keep this practice forever as a statute for yourselves and your descendants.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thou shalt keep this thing as a law for thee and thy children for ever.

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

Exodus 12:14 And this day shall be for a memorial to you; and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord in your generations, with an everlasting observance.

Genesis 17:8-10 And I will give to thee, and to thy seed, the land of thy sojournment, all the land of Chanaan, for a perpetual possession, and I will be their God. . . .

Context
The Feast of Unleavened Bread
23For the Lord will pass through striking the Egyptians: and when he shall see the blood on the transom, and on both the posts, he will pass over the door of the house, and not suffer the destroyer to come into your houses and to hurt you. 24Thou shalt keep this thing as a law for thee and thy children for ever.25And when you have entered into the land which the Lord will give you, as he hath promised, you shall observe these ceremonies.…
Cross References
Exodus 12:14
And this day shall be for a memorial to you; and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord in your generations, with an everlasting observance.

Exodus 12:17
And you shall observe the feast of the unleavened bread: for in this same day I will bring forth your army out of the land of Egypt, and you shall keep this day in your generations by a perpetual observance.

Exodus 12:25
And when you have entered into the land which the Lord will give you, as he hath promised, you shall observe these ceremonies.

Exodus 13:5
And when the Lord shall have brought thee into the land of the Chanaanite, and the Hethite, and the Amorrhite, and the Hevite, and the Jebusite, which he swore to thy fathers that he would give thee, a land that floweth with milk and honey, thou shalt celebrate this manner of sacred rites in this month.

Exodus 13:10
Thou shalt keep this observance at the set time from days to days.

Exodus 12:23
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