Exodus 12:2-14 This month shall be the chief of months for you. It shall be the first of the months of the year for you.

LITV⁽ⁱ⁾ ² This month shall be the chief of months for you. It shall be the first of the months of the year for you. ³ Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, On the tenth of this month, they shall each take for themselves an animal of the flock for a father's house, a flock animal for a house. ⁴ And if the house is too small for a flock animal, he and his neighbor next to his house shall take according to the number of souls, each one according to the mouth of his eating, you shall count concerning the flock animal. ⁵ A flock animal, a perfect one, a male, a yearling, shall be to you. You shall take from the sheep or from the goats. ⁶ And it shall be for you to keep until the fourteenth day of this month. And all the assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it between the evenings. ⁷ And they shall take from the blood, and put it on the two side doorposts and on the upper doorpost, on the houses in which they eat it. ⁸ And they shall eat the flesh in this night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. ⁹ Do not eat it raw, or at all boiled in water, but roasted with fire; its head with its legs and with its inward parts. ¹⁰ And you shall not leave any of it until morning. And you shall burn with fire that left from it until morning. ¹¹ And you shall eat it this way: with your loins girded, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. It is the Passover to Jehovah. ¹² And I will pass through in the land of Egypt in this night. And I will strike every first born in the land of Egypt, from man even to livestock. And I will execute judgments on all the gods of Egypt. I am Jehovah! ¹³ And the blood shall be a sign to you, on the houses where you are . And I will see the blood, and I will pass over you. And the plague shall not be on you to destroy, when I strike in the land of Egypt. ¹⁴ And the day shall be a memorial for you. And you shall celebrate it as a feast to Jehovah, for your generations. You shall celebrate it as a law forever.