Exodus 12:2–14

²This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you. ³Speak 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. ⁴And 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. ⁵Your lamb shall be without blemish, a yearling male; ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats. ⁶And 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. ⁷And 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. ⁸And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs shall they eat it. ⁹Ye shall eat none of it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roast with fire; its head with its legs and with its in-wards. ¹⁰And ye shall let none of it remain until the morning; and what remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire. ¹¹And thus shall ye eat it: your loins shall be girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and ye shall eat it in haste; it is Jehovah’s passover. ¹²And I will go through the land of Egypt in that night, and smite all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am Jehovah. ¹³And the blood shall be for you as a sign on the houses in which ye are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you; and the plague shall not be among you for destruction, when I smite the land of Egypt. ¹⁴And this day shall be unto you for a memorial; and ye shall celebrate it as a feast to Jehovah; throughout your generations as an ordinance for ever shall ye celebrate it.