1. The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt:
2. “This month will be the first month of the year for you.
3. Both of you are to tell the whole community of Israel: On the tenth day of this month each man must get one lamb. It is for the people in his house.
4. There may not be enough people in his house to eat a whole lamb. Then he must share it with his closest neighbor. There must be enough lamb for everyone to eat.
5. The lamb must be a one-year-old male. It must have nothing wrong with it. This animal can be either a young sheep or a young goat.
6. Keep the animal with you to take care of it until the fourteenth day of the month. On that day all the people of the community of Israel will kill these animals. They will do this as soon as the sun goes down.