⁴ And if the lamb is more than enough for the family, let that family and its nearest neighbour have a lamb between them, taking into account the number of persons and how much food is needed for every man.

^{5 Ref} Let your lamb be without a mark, a male in its first year: you may take it from among the sheep or the goats:

^{6 Ref} Keep it till the fourteenth day of the same month, when everyone who is of the children of Israel is to put it to death between sundown and dark.

^{7 Ref} Then take some of the blood and put it on the two sides of the door and over the door of the house where the meal is to be taken.

^{8 Ref} And let your food that night be the flesh of the lamb, cooked with fire in the oven, together with unleavened bread and bitter-tasting plants.