Exodus 12:1-13

1And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

2This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.

3Speak ye to all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:1

4And if the household shall be too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next to his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.

5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:2

6And ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.3

7And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, in which they shall eat it.

8And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.

9Eat not of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; its head with its legs, and with its inward parts.

10And ye shall let nothing of it remain till the morning; and that which remaineth of it till the morning ye shall burn with fire.

11And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: it is the LORD’S passover.

12For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.4

13And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where ye are : and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.5