1. And 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;
3. speak 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,)
5. a 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;
7. and 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;
9. ye 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;