^{2 Ref} "This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year to you.

^{3 Ref} Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household;

⁴ and if the household be too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.

^{5 Ref} Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:

^{6 Ref} and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.

^{7 Ref} They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.

^{8 Ref} They shall eat the flesh in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.

^{9 Ref} Don't eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.

^{10 Ref} You shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; but that which remains of it until the morning you shall burn with fire.

^{11 Ref} This is how you shall eat it: with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet, and your staff in your hand; and you shall eat it in haste: it is Yahweh's Passover.