¹And Jehovah speaketh unto Moses and unto Aaron, in the land of Egypt, saying, ²‘This month is to you the chief of months—it is the first to you of the months of the year; ³speak ye unto all the company of Israel, saying, In the tenth of this month—they take to them each man a lamb for the house of the fathers, a lamb for a house.

⁴‘(And if the household be too few for a lamb, then hath he taken, he and his neighbour who is near unto his house, for the number of persons, each according to his eating ye do count for the lamb,) ⁵a lamb, a perfect one, a male, a son of a year, let be to you; from the sheep or from the goats ye do take it.

⁶‘And it hath become a charge to you, until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the company of Israel have slaughtered it between the evenings; ⁷and they have taken of the blood, and have put on the two side-posts, and on the lintel over the houses in which they eat it.

⁸‘And they have eaten the flesh in this night, roast with fire; with unleavened things and bitters they do eat it; ⁹ye do not eat of it raw, or boiled at all in water, but roast with fire, its head with its legs, and with its inwards; ¹⁰and ye do not leave of it till morning, and that which is remaining of it till morning with fire ye do burn.

¹¹‘And thus ye do eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and ye have eaten it in haste; it is Jehovah’s passover,

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