2. “This month is to be the first month of the year for you.
3. Give these instructions to the whole community of Israel: on the tenth day of this month each man must choose either a lamb or a young goat for his household.
4. If his family is too small to eat a whole animal, he and his next-door neighbour may share an animal, in proportion to the number of people and the amount that each person can eat.
5. You may choose either a sheep or a goat, but it must be a one-year-old male without any defects.
6. Then, on the evening of the fourteenth day of the month, the whole community of Israel will kill the animals.
7. The people are to take some of the blood and put it on the doorposts and above the doors of the houses in which the animals are to be eaten.
8. That night the meat is to be roasted, and eaten with bitter herbs and with bread made without yeast.
9. Do not eat any of it raw or boiled, but eat it roasted whole, including the head, the legs, and the internal organs.
19-20. For seven days no yeast must be found in your houses, for if anyone, native-born or foreign, eats bread made with yeast, he shall no longer be considered one of my people.”
21. Moses called for all the leaders of Israel and said to them, “Each of you is to choose a lamb or a young goat and kill it, so that your families can celebrate Passover.
22. Take a sprig of hyssop, dip it in the bowl containing the animal's blood, and wipe the blood on the doorposts and the beam above the door of your house. Not one of you is to leave the house until morning.
23. When the Lord goes through Egypt to kill the Egyptians, he will see the blood on the beams and the doorposts and will not let the Angel of Death enter your houses and kill you.
24. You and your children must obey these rules for ever.
25. When you enter the land that the Lord has promised to give you, you must perform this ritual.
26. When your children ask you, ‘What does this ritual mean?’
27. you will answer, ‘It is the sacrifice of Passover to honour the Lord, because he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt. He killed the Egyptians, but spared us.’ ”The Israelites knelt down and worshipped.
28. Then they went and did what the Lord had commanded Moses and Aaron.