Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: ‘On the (A)tenth of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household.

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(A)On the fourteenth day of the first month at twilight is the Lord’s Passover.

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Therefore you shall sacrifice the Passover to the Lord your God, from the flock and (A)the herd, in the (B)place where the Lord chooses to put His name. You shall eat no leavened bread with it; (C)seven days you shall eat unleavened bread with it, that is, the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste), that you may (D)remember the day in which you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life. (E)And no leaven shall be seen among you in all your territory for seven days, nor shall any of the meat which you sacrifice the first day at twilight remain overnight until (F)morning.

“You may not sacrifice the Passover within any of your gates which the Lord your God gives you; but at the place where the Lord your God chooses to make His name abide, there you shall sacrifice the Passover (G)at twilight, at the going down of the sun, at the time you came out of Egypt. And you shall roast and eat it (H)in the place which the Lord your God chooses, and in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents. Six days you shall eat unleavened bread, and (I)on the seventh day there shall be a [a]sacred assembly to the Lord your God. You shall do no work on it.

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Footnotes

  1. Deuteronomy 16:8 Lit. restraint

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