Exodus 12:24
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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.

Lexicon
And you are to keep
וּשְׁמַרְתֶּ֖ם (ū·šə·mar·tem)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 8104: To hedge about, guard, to protect, attend to

this
הַזֶּ֑ה (haz·zeh)
Article | Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2088: This, that

command
הַדָּבָ֣ר (had·dā·ḇār)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause

as a perpetual
עַד־ (‘aḏ-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5704: As far as, even to, up to, until, while

ordinance
לְחָק־ (lə·ḥāq-)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 2706: Something prescribed or owed, a statute

for you
לְךָ֥ (lə·ḵā)
Preposition | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

and your descendants.
וּלְבָנֶ֖יךָ (ū·lə·ḇā·ne·ḵā)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1121: A son


Additional Translations
And you are to keep this command as a perpetual ordinance for you and your descendants.And you shall observe this thing for an ordinance to you and to your sons for ever.

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

And keep ye this thing as an ordinance for thyself and for thy children for ever.

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

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

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

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

'And ye have observed this thing, for a statute to thee, and to thy sons -- unto the age;
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