³ Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb ^(A)according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household.

⁵ Your lamb shall be ^(A)without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats,

⁷ “Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the ^(A)two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. ⁸ They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with ^(B)unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.

¹² For ^(A)I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on ^(B)all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: ^(C)I am the Lord. ^13 (D)The blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

⁴⁶ It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, and ^(A)you shall not break any of its bones.