Exodus 12:1-11

1Now the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of 1Egypt,

2“2This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year for you.

3Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are, each one, to take a 3lamb for themselves, according to the fathers’ households, a 4lamb for 5each household.

4Now if the household is too small for a 6lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the 7number of persons in them; in proportion to 8what each one should eat, you are to 9divide the lamb.

5Your 10lamb shall be 11an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

612You shall keep it until the 13fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to slaughter it 1415at twilight.

716Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel 17of the houses in which they eat it.

8They shall eat the flesh 18that same night, 19roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with 20unleavened bread 2122and bitter herbs.

9Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather 23roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with 24its entrails.

1025And you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall completely burn with fire.

11Now you shall eat it in this way: with your garment 26belted around your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in a hurry--it is 27the Lord’s Passover.