Bible Verses

This is how you will eat: with a belt around your waist, sandals on your feet, and a staff in your hand. You shall eat hastily, for it is a Passover in honor of the Lord.

Do not leave any of it until morning. If any is left till morning, burn it in the fire.

Do not eat the meat lightly cooked or boiled in water, but roasted entirely over the fire—the head, the legs, and the inner parts.

That night, you will eat the flesh roasted at the fire with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.

and take some of the blood to put on the doorposts and on top of the doorframes of the houses where you eat.

Then you will keep it until the fourteenth day of the month. On that evening, all the people will slaughter their lambs

You will select a perfect lamb without blemishes, a male born during the present year, taken from the sheep or goats.

 If the family is too small for a lamb, they must join with a neighbor, the nearest to the house, according to the number of persons and what each one can eat.

Speak to the community of Israel and say to them: On the tenth day of this month, let each family take a lamb for each house.

 “This month is to be the beginning of all months, the first month of your year.