Exodus 12:1
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Exo 12:1
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Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,
Exo 12:2
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"This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you.
Exo 12:3
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~"Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, `On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a lamb for themselves, according to their fathers' households, a lamb for each household.
Exo 12:4
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~`Now if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the number of persons {in them;} according to what each man should eat, you are to divide the lamb.
Exo 12:5
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~`Your lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
Exo 12:6
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~`You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight.
Exo 12:7
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~`Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it.
Exo 12:8
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~`They shall eat the flesh that {same} night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs.
Exo 12:9
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~`Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather roasted with fire, {both} its head and its legs along with its entrails.
Exo 12:10
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~`And you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn with fire.
Exo 12:11
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~`Now you shall eat it in this manner: {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 LORD's Passover.
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