3 Tell the whole community of Israel: On the tenth of this month every family must procure for itself a lamb, one apiece for each household.
4 If a household is too small for a lamb, it along with its nearest neighbor will procure one, and apportion the lamb’s cost in proportion to the number of persons, according to what each household consumes.
5 Your lamb must be a year-old male and without blemish. You may take it from either the sheep or the goats.
6 You will keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and then, with the whole community of Israel assembled, it will be slaughtered during the evening twilight.
7 They will take some of its blood and apply it to the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
8 They will consume its meat that same night, eating it roasted with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
9 Do not eat any of it raw or even boiled in water, but roasted, with its head and shanks and inner organs.