Exodus 12:3–13 · BSB
12:3
Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must select a lamb for his family, one per household.
12:4
If the household is too small for a whole lamb, they are to share with the nearest neighbor based on the number of people, and apportion the lamb accordingly.
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12:5
Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.
12:6
You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.
12:7
They are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.
12:8
They are to eat the meat that night, roasted over the fire, along with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
12:9
Do not eat any of the meat raw or cooked in boiling water, but only roasted over the fire—its head and legs and inner parts.
12:10
Do not leave any of it until morning; before the morning you must burn up any part that is left over.
12:11
This is how you are to eat it: You must be fully dressed for travel, with your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. You are to eat in haste; it is the LORD’s Passover.
12:12
On that night I will pass through the land of Egypt and strike down every firstborn male, both man and beast, and I will execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I am the LORD.
12:13
The blood on the houses where you are staying will be a sign; when I see the blood, I will pass over you. No plague will fall on you to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.
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