Exodus 12:1-8 ▼

1 The LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,

2 This month is to be your beginning of months; it will be your first month of the year.

3 Tell the whole community of Israel, 'In the tenth day of this month they each must take a lamb for themselves according to their families--a lamb for each household.

4 If any household is too small for a lamb, the man and his next-door neighbor are to take a lamb according to the number of people--you will make your count for the lamb according to how much each one can eat.

5 Your lamb must be perfect, a male, one year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

6 You must care for it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then the whole community of Israel will kill it around sundown.

7 They will take some of the blood and put it on the two side posts and top of the doorframe of the houses where they will eat it.

8 They will eat the meat the same night; they will eat it roasted over the fire with bread made without yeast and with bitter herbs.