Exodus 12.1. And the LORD* spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt saying, 2. “This month will be the beginning of months for you: it will be the first month of the year for you. 3. Speak to the whole congregation of Israel saying, On the tenth day of this month they will take for themselves – each man – a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for a house. 4. And if the household is too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of people, each man according to how much he eats will make your count for the lamb. 5. Your lamb will be without blemish, a male of the first year. You will take it out from the sheep or from the goats. 6. And you will keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month, and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will kill it at twilight. 7. And they will take of the blood and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, in which they will eat it. 8. And they will eat the flesh, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread in that night. They will eat it with bitter herbs. 9. Do not eat it raw, or sodden at all with water, but roasted with fire, its head with its legs and with its entrails. 10. And do not let anything of it remain until the morning. And that which remains of it until the morning you will burn with fire. 11. And thus you will eat it, with your loins girded, your shoes on your feet and your staff in your hand. And you will eat it in haste. It is the LORD’s* Passover. 12. For I shall pass through the land of Egypt this night and will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast, and I shall execute judgment against all the gods of Egypt. I AM the LORD*! 13. And the blood will be as a token for you upon the houses where you are, and when I see the blood, I shall pass over you and the Plague will not be upon you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.”