1. Some time later the Lord said to Moses and Aaron:
2. This month is to be the first month of the year for you.
3. Tell the people of Israel that on the tenth day of this month the head of each family must choose a lamb or a young goat for his family to eat.
4-5. If any family is too small to eat the whole animal, they must share it with their next-door neighbours. Choose either a sheep or a goat, but it must be a one-year-old male that has nothing wrong with it. And it must be large enough for everyone to have some of the meat.
6. Each family must take care of its animal until the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, when the animals are to be killed.
7. Some of the blood must be put on the two doorposts and above the door of each house where the animals are to be eaten.
8. That night the animals are to be roasted and eaten, together with bitter herbs and thin bread made without yeast.