1. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
2. “This month is to be your beginning of months; it will be your first month of the year.
3. Tell the whole community of Israel, ‘In the tenth day of this month they each must take a lamb for themselves according to their families – a lamb for each household.
4. If any household is too small for a lamb, the man and his next-door neighbor are to take a lamb according to the number of people – you will make your count for the lamb according to how much each one can eat.
5. Your lamb must be perfect, a male, one year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.