Exodus 12:2-8

NSB(i) 2 »This month shall be the beginning of months for you. It is to be the first month of the year to you. 3 »Tell the whole community of Israel: ‘On the tenth day of this month each man must take a sheep for his family, one animal per household. 4 »‘A household may be too small to eat a whole animal. That household and the one next-door can share one animal. Choose your animal based on the number of people and what each person can eat. 5 »‘Your animal must be a one-year-old male that has no defects. You may choose a lamb or a young goat. 6 »‘Take care of it until the fourteenth day of this month. Then at dusk, all the assembled people from the community of Israel must slaughter their animals. 7 »‘Some of the blood must be put on the two doorposts and above the door of each house where the animals are to be eaten. 8 »‘That night the animals are to be roasted and eaten, together with bitter herbs (greens) and unleavened bread made without yeast.