1. And the LORD spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2. This month shall be to you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.
3. Speak ye to all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house:
4. And if the household shall be too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
5. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it from the sheep or from the goats:
6. And ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
7. And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side-posts, and on the upper door-post of the houses, in which they shall eat it.