1. The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
2. “This month will be the first month; it will be the first month of the year for you.
3. Tell the whole Israelite community: On the tenth day of this month they must take a lamb for each household, a lamb per house.
4. If a household is too small for a lamb, it should share one with a neighbor nearby. You should divide the lamb in proportion to the number of people who will be eating it.
5. Your lamb should be a flawless year-old male. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
6. You should keep close watch over it until the fourteenth day of this month. At twilight on that day, the whole assembled Israelite community should slaughter their lambs.
7. They should take some of the blood and smear it on the two doorposts and on the beam over the door of the houses in which they are eating.