^{3 Ref} speak ye unto all the company of Israel, saying, In the tenth of this month -- they take to them each man a lamb for the house of the fathers, a lamb for a house.

⁴ `(And if the household be too few for a lamb, then hath he taken, he and his neighbour who is near unto his house, for the number of persons, each according to his eating ye do count for the lamb,)

^{5 Ref} a lamb, a perfect one, a male, a son of a year, let be to you; from the sheep or from the goats ye do take `it'.

^{6 Ref} `And it hath become a charge to you, until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the company of Israel have slaughtered it between the evenings;

^{7 Ref} and they have taken of the blood, and have put on the two side-posts, and on the lintel over the houses in which they eat it.

^{8 Ref} `And they have eaten the flesh in this night, roast with fire; with unleavened things and bitters they do eat it;

^{9 Ref} ye do not eat of it raw, or boiled at all in water, but roast with fire, its head with its legs, and with its inwards;

^{10 Ref} and ye do not leave of it till morning, and that which is remaining of it till morning with fire ye do burn.

^{11 Ref} `And thus ye do eat it: your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand, and ye have eaten it in haste; it is Jehovah's passover,

^{12 Ref} and I have passed over through the land of Egypt during this night, and have smitten every first-born in the land of Egypt, from man even unto beast, and on all the gods of Egypt I do judgments; I `am' Jehovah.

^{13 Ref} `And the blood hath become a sign for you on the houses where ye `are', and I have seen the blood, and have passed over you, and a plague is not on you for destruction in My smiting in the land of Egypt.

^{14 Ref} `And this day hath become to you a memorial, and ye have kept it a feast to Jehovah to your generations; -- a statute age-during; ye keep it a feast.