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Exodus 12:24
Exodus 12:24 is verse 24 of Exodus chapter 12, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
And you are to keep this command as a permanent statute for you and your descendants.
King James Version
And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.
World English Bible
You shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons forever.
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Exodus 12:22–26 · Berean Standard Bible
22 Take a cluster of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin, and brush the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe. None of you shall go out the door of his house until morning.
23 When the LORD passes through to strike down the Egyptians, He will see the blood on the top and sides of the doorframe and will pass over that doorway; so He will not allow the destroyer to enter your houses and strike you down.
24 And you are to keep this command as a permanent statute for you and your descendants.
25 When you enter the land that the LORD will give you as He promised, you are to keep this service.
26 When your children ask you, ‘What does this service mean to you?’
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Exodus 12:14And this day will be a memorial for you, and you are to celebrate it as a feast to the LORD, as a permanent statute for the generations to come.
Genesis 17:8And to you and your descendants I will give the land where you are residing—all the land of Canaan—as an eternal possession; and I will be their God.”
Genesis 17:9God also said to Abraham, “You must keep My covenant—you and your descendants in the generations after you.
Genesis 17:10This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.