Exodus 12:1-9 ▼

1 And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, in the land of Egypt, saying,

2 This month is to you the chief of months -- it is the first to you of the months of the year;

3 speak ye unto all the company of Israel, saying, In the tenth of this month -- they take to them each man a lamb for the house of the fathers, a lamb for a house.

4 '(And if the household be too few for a lamb, then hath he taken, he and his neighbour who is near unto his house, for the number of persons, each according to his eating ye do count for the lamb,)

5 a lamb, a perfect one, a male, a son of a year, let be to you; from the sheep or from the goats ye do take it.

6 'And it hath become a charge to you, until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the company of Israel have slaughtered it between the evenings;

7 and they have taken of the blood, and have put on the two side-posts, and on the lintel over the houses in which they eat it.

8 'And they have eaten the flesh in this night, roast with fire; with unleavened things and bitters they do eat it;

9 ye do not eat of it raw, or boiled at all in water, but roast with fire, its head with its legs, and with its inwards;