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The Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt and said:

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

On that night, I shall go through Egypt and strike every firstborn in Egypt, men and animals; and I will even bring judgment on all the gods of Egypt, I, the Lord!

The blood on your houses will be the sign that you are there. I will see the blood and pass over you, and you will escape the mortal plague when I strike Egypt.

This is a day you are to remember and celebrate in honor of the Lord. It is to be kept as a festival day for all generations forever.

 

The Unleavened Bread