1 The Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
2 “This month will be the first month; it will be the first month of the year for you.
3 Tell the whole Israelite community: On the tenth day of this month they must take a lamb for each household, a lamb per house.
4 If a household is too small for a lamb, it should share one with a neighbor nearby. You should divide the lamb in proportion to the number of people who will be eating it.
5 Your lamb should be a flawless year-old male. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
6 You should keep close watch over it until the fourteenth day of this month. At twilight on that day, the whole assembled Israelite community should slaughter their lambs.
7 They should take some of the blood and smear it on the two doorposts and on the beam over the door of the houses in which they are eating.