1 And Yahweh said to Moses and to Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
2 “This month will be the beginning of months; it will be for you the first of the months of the year.
3 Speak to all the community of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth of this month, they will each take for themselves a lamb for the family, a lamb for the household.
4 And if the household is too small for a lamb, he and the neighbor nearest to his house will take one according to the number of persons; you will count out portions of the lamb according to how much each one can eat.
5 The lamb for you must be a male, without defect, in its first year; you will take it from the sheep or from the goats.
6 “You will keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and all the assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter it at twilight.
7 And they will take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel on the houses in which they eat it.