Exodus 12:1-10

The Passover Lamb

Now Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron in the land of ¹Egypt, 2 “^aThis month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you. 3 Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a ¹lamb for themselves, according to their fathers’ households, a ¹lamb for ²each household. 4 Now if the household is too small for a ¹lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the ²number of persons in them; according to ³what each man should eat, you are to ⁴apportion the lamb. 5 Your ¹lamb shall be ^aa male, without blemish, a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 6 ¹And you shall keep it until the ^afourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall slaughter it ²^bat twilight. 7 ^aMoreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel ¹of the houses in which they eat it. 8 And they shall eat the flesh ^athat night, ^broasted with fire, and they shall eat it with ^cunleavened bread ¹^dand bitter herbs. 9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather ^aroasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with ^bits entrails. 10 ^aAnd you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn with fire.

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