2. This month will stand at the head of your calendar; you will reckon it the first month of the year.
3. Tell the whole community of Israel: On the tenth of this month every family must procure for itself a lamb, one apiece for each household.
4. If a household is too small for a lamb, it along with its nearest neighbor will procure one, and apportion the lamb’s cost in proportion to the number of persons, according to what each household consumes.
5. Your lamb must be a year-old male and without blemish. You may take it from either the sheep or the goats.
6. You will keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then, with the whole community of Israel assembled, it will be slaughtered during the evening twilight.
7. They will take some of its blood and apply it to the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
8. They will consume its meat that same night, eating it roasted with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
9. Do not eat any of it raw or even boiled in water, but roasted, with its head and shanks and inner organs.
10. You must not keep any of it beyond the morning; whatever is left over in the morning must be burned up.