26 When your children 12:26 Ex 10:2; 13:8,14; Dt 6:20; 32:7; Jos 4:6,21; Ps 78:3–6 ask you, ‘What does this ceremony mean to you? ’ 27 you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice 12:27 Ex 4:31; 12:11 to the Lord, for he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he struck the Egyptians, and he spared our homes.’ " So the people knelt low and worshiped.