Exodus 12:2–14

^2aThis month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. ³Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house: ⁴and if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. ⁵Your lamb shall be ^bwithout blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: ⁶and ye shall keep it up until the ^cfourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. ⁷And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. ⁸And they shall eat the flesh in ^qthat night, roast with fire, and ^dunleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. ⁹Eat not of it raw, nor ^esodden at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the ^fpurtenance thereof. ^10gAnd ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. ¹¹And thus shall ye eat it; with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste: ^hit is the Lord’s passover. ¹²For I ⁱwill pass through the land of Egypt ^qthis night, and will smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: ^jI am the Lord. ¹³And the blood shall be to you for a token upon the houses where you are: and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and the plague shall not be upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt. ¹⁴And ^qthis day shall be unto you ^kfor a memorial; and you shall keep it a feast to the Lord throughout your generations; you shall keep it a feast ^lby an ordinance for ever.