Exodus 12:1-4 ▼

1 And YHWH speaks to Moses and to Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

2 “This month [is] the chief of months to you—it [is] the first of the months of the year to you;

3 speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth of this month they take to themselves, each man, a lamb for the house of the fathers, a lamb for a house.

4 And if the household is too few for a lamb, then he has taken, he and his neighbor who is near to his house, for the number of persons, each according to his eating you count for the lamb.