2  This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. 3  Speak unto all the assembly of Israel, saying, On the tenth of this month let them take themselves each a lamb, for a father’s house, a lamb for a house. 4  And if the household be too small for a lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; each according to the measure of his eating shall ye count for the lamb. 5  Your lamb shall be without blemish, a yearling male; ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats. 6  And ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole congregation of the assembly of Israel shall kill it between the two evenings. 7  And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two door-posts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8  And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs shall they eat it.