Outside Israel, this poem is recited on the second night of the festival only.

וּבְכֵן וַאֲמַרְתֶּם זֶבַח פֶּסַח TELL [your children]: “THIS IS THE PESAH.” You showed Your immense power in wonders on Pesaḥ; to the head of all seasons You have raised up Pesaḥ. You revealed to [Abraham] the Ezrahi what would come at midnight on Pesaḥ. TELL [your children]: “THIS IS THE PESAH.”

You knocked at his doors in the heat of the day on Pesaḥ; he gave Your shining [messengers] unleavened cakes to eat on Pesaḥ; and he ran to the herd, hinting at the ox in the Torah reading of Pesaḥ. TELL [your children]: “THIS IS THE PESAH.”

The men of Sodom raged and burned in fire on Pesaḥ. Lot was saved; he baked matzot at the end of Pesaḥ. You swept bare the land of Mof and Nof [Egypt] in Your great rage on Pesaḥ. TELL [your children]: “THIS IS THE PESAH.”

The firstborns of [Egypt’s] vigor You crushed, LORD, on the night of guarding, on Pesaḥ. [But,] Mighty One, You passed over Your firstborn son when You saw the blood of the Pesaḥ, allowing no destruction through my doors on Pesaḥ. TELL [your children]: “THIS IS THE PESAH.”

The walled city [ofJericho] was closed [for fear] when it was Pesaḥ. Midian was destroyed in the din, [after a dream of] Omer barley on Pesaḥ. The fat ones of [Assyria; of] Pul and Lud were burned away in fires on Pesaḥ. TELL [your children]: “THIS IS THE PESAH.”

This day [Sennacherib] halted at Nob [and laid siege] until the time of Pesaḥ. A hand wrote Babylonia’s doom on the wall at Pesaḥ: the lamp was lit, the table was laid on Pesaḥ. TELL [your children]: “THIS IS THE PESAH.”

Hadassa gathered the people to fast three days at Pesaḥ; You crushed [Haman,] the head of that evil family, on a gallows fifty cubits high on Pesaḥ. [Loss and widowhood -] You will bring these two in a moment to [Edom, which rules us now,] on Pesaḥ. Strengthen Your hand, raise Your right hand, as on the night first sanctified as Pesaḥ. TELL [your children]: “THIS IS THE PESAH.”