Exodus 12:1-10
1The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: 2 “This month is to be the beginning of months for you; it is the first month of your year. a 3 Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month they must each select an animal of the flock according to their fathers’ households, one animal per household. 4 If the household is too small for a whole animal, that person and the neighbor nearest his house are to select one based on the combined number of people; you should apportion the animal according to what each person ▼▼Or household
will eat. 5You must have an unblemished c animal, a year-old male; you may take it from either the sheep or the goats. 6You are to keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; then the whole assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight. d 7They must take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses where they eat them. 8They are to eat the meat that night; they should eat it, roasted over the fire along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. e 9Do not eat any of it raw or cooked in boiling ▼▼Or or boiled at all in
water, but only roasted g over fire – its head as well as its legs and inner organs. 10Do not let any of it remain until morning; h you must burn up any part of it that does remain before morning.
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