Exodus 12:2–14

²“^aThis month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.

³“Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a ¹lamb for themselves, according to their fathers’ households, a lamb for ²each household.

⁴‘Now if the household is too small for a ¹lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the ²number of persons in them; according to ³what each man should eat, you are to ⁴divide the lamb.

⁵‘Your ¹lamb shall be ^aan unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

⁶‘¹You shall keep it until the ^afourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it ^2bat twilight.

⁷‘^aMoreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel ¹of the houses in which they eat it.

⁸‘They shall eat the flesh ^athat same night, ^broasted with fire, and they shall eat it with ^cunleavened bread ^1dand bitter herbs.

⁹‘Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather ^aroasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with ^bits entrails.

¹⁰‘^aAnd you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn with fire.

¹¹‘Now you shall eat it in this manner: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste—it is ^athe Lord’s Passover.

¹²‘For ^aI will go through the land of Egypt on that night, and will strike down all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and ^bagainst all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments—^cI am the Lord.

¹³‘^aThe blood shall be a sign for you on the houses where you ¹live; and when I see the blood I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you ²to destroy you when I strike the land of Egypt.

Feast of Unleavened Bread

¹⁴‘Now ^athis day will be ^ba memorial to you, and you shall celebrate it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations you are to celebrate it as ^1ca permanent ordinance.