Exodus 12:3-20

3Speak 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 2lamb for 3each household. 4Now if the household is too small for a 4lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the 5number of persons in them; according to 6what each man should eat, you are to 7divide the lamb. 5Your 8lamb shall be 9an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. 610You shall keep it until the 11fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it 1213at twilight. 714Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel 15of the houses in which they eat it. 8They shall eat the flesh 16that same night, 17roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with 18unleavened bread 1920and bitter herbs. 9Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather 21roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with 22its entrails. 1023And you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn with fire. 11Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste--it is 24the Lord’s Passover. 12For 25I will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and 26against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments--27I am the Lord. 1328The blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you 29live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you 30to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

14‘Now 31this day will be 32a memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as 3334a permanent ordinance. 1535Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread, but on the first day you shall 36remove leaven from your houses; for whoever eats anything leavened from the first day until the seventh day, 37that 38person shall be cut off from Israel. 1639On the first day you shall have a holy assembly, and another holy assembly on the seventh day; no work at all shall be done on them, except what must be eaten 40by every person, that alone may be 41prepared by you. 17You shall also observe 42the Feast of Unleavened Bread, for on this 43very day I brought your hosts out of the land of Egypt; therefore you shall observe this day throughout your generations as 44a 45permanent ordinance. 1846In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread, until the twenty-first day of the month at evening. 1947Seven days there shall be no leaven found in your houses; for whoever eats what is leavened, that 4849person shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is an alien or a native of the land. 20You shall not eat anything leavened; in all your dwellings you shall eat unleavened bread.’”