For the end, A Psalm for instruction, for the sons of Korah. O God, we have heard with our ears, our fathers have told us, the deeds which You did in their days, in the days of old.

As we have heard, so have we also seen, in the city of the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God; God has founded it forever. Pause.

And it shall come to pass, if your sons say to you, What is this service?

That you shall say to them, This Passover is a sacrifice to the Lord, as He defended the houses of the children of Israel in Egypt, when He struck the Egyptians, but delivered our houses.

And you shall tell your son in that day, saying, Therefore the Lord has dealt thus with me, as I was going out of Egypt.

And if later on your son should ask you, saying, What is this? Then you shall say to him, With a strong hand the Lord brought us out of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

And when Pharaoh hardened [his heart so as not] to send us away, He slew every firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man and the firstborn of beast; therefore I sacrifice every [offspring] that opens the womb, the males to the Lord, and every firstborn of my sons I will redeem.