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The lamb itself they were to roast and eat at
night, with unleavened bread and with bitter
herbs, which represented the bitterness of
their slavery.
When they ate the lamb, they must be all
ready for a journey. They must have their
shoes on their feet, and their staves in their
hands.
They did as the Lord had said, and that very
night the king of Egypt sent them word that
they might go free. In the morning they
started on their way to the land of promise.
So every year, the same night on which they
left Egypt, all the Israelites kept the feast of
the Passover at Jerusalem. At this feast each
family had a roasted lamb, with bread and
bitter herbs, as their forefathers had in Egypt.
And they told their children the story of God's
goodness in freeing His people from slavery.
