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.