Exodus 12:1-10 ▼

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

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

3 Speak to all the congregation of the children of Israel, saying, On the tenth of this month let them take each man a lamb according to the houses of their families, every man a lamb for his household.

4 And if they be few in a household, so that there are not enough for the lamb, he shall take with himself his neighbour that lives near to him, - as to the number of souls, every one according to that which suffices him shall make a reckoning for the lamb.

5 It shall be to you a lamb unblemished, a male of a year old: ye shall take it of the lambs and the kids.

6 And it shall be kept by you till the fourteenth of this month, and all the multitude of the congregation of the children of Israel shall kill it toward evening.

7 And they shall take of the blood, and shall put it on the two door-posts, and on the lintel, in the houses in which soever they shall eat them.

8 And they shall eat the flesh in this night roast with fire, and they shall eat unleavened bread with bitter herbs.

9 Ye shall not eat of it raw nor sodden in water, but only roast with fire, the head with the feet and the appurtenances.

10 Nothing shall be left of it till the morning, and a bone of it ye shall not break; but that which is left of it till the morning ye shall burn with fire.