1. And Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2. “This month will be the beginning of months; it will be for you the first of the months of the year.
3. Speak to all the community of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month, they will each take for themselves a lamb for the family, a lamb for the household.
4. And if the household is too small for a lamb, he and the neighbor nearest to his house will take one according to the number of persons; you will count out portions of the lamb according to how much each one can eat.
5. The lamb for you must be a male, without defect, in its first year; you will take it from the sheep or from the goats.
6. “You will keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and all the assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter it at twilight.
7. And they will take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel on the houses in which they eat it.
8. And they will eat the meat on this night; they will eat it fire-roasted and with unleavened bread on bitter herbs.