Exodus 12:3-13

English Standard Version

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. ⁴ And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. ⁵ Your lamb shall be ^(B)without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, ⁶ and you shall keep it until the ^(C)fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.^[a]

⁷ “Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the ^(D)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 ^(E)unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. ⁹ Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but ^(F)roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. ¹⁰ And ^(G)you shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. ¹¹ In this manner you shall eat it: with ^(H)your belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. ^(I)It is the Lord's Passover. ¹² For ^(J)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 ^(K)all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: ^(L)I am the Lord. ^13 (M)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.