2Let this month be to you the first of months, the first month of the year.
3Say to all the children of Israel when they are come together, In the tenth day of this month every man is to take a lamb, by the number of their fathers' families, a lamb for every family:
4And if the lamb is more than enough for the family, let that family and its nearest neighbour have a lamb between them, taking into account the number of persons and how much food is needed for every man.
5Let your lamb be without a mark, a male in its first year: you may take it from among the sheep or the goats:
6Keep it till the fourteenth day of the same month, when everyone who is of the children of Israel is to put it to death between sundown and dark.
7Then take some of the blood and put it on the two sides of the door and over the door of the house where the meal is to be taken.
8And let your food that night be the flesh of the lamb, cooked with fire in the oven, together with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants.
