Exodus 12:1–11

The Passover Instituted

12Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, ^2a“This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you. ³Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: ‘On the ^btenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household. ⁴And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man’s need you shall make your count for the lamb. ⁵Your lamb shall be ^cwithout ¹blemish, a male ²of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. ⁶Now you shall keep it until the ^dfourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. ⁷And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it. ⁸Then they shall eat the flesh on that ^enight; ^froasted in fire, with ^gunleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it. ⁹Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but ^hroasted in fire—its head with its legs and its entrails. ¹⁰ⁱYou shall let none of it remain until morning, and what remains of it until morning you shall burn with fire. ¹¹And thus you shall eat it: ³with a belt on your waist, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. So you shall eat it in haste. ^jIt is the Lord’s Passover.