rsv Exodus:12:2-14
rsv@Exodus:12:2 @ "This month shall be for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you.
rsv@Exodus:12:3 @ Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month they shall take every man a lamb according to their fathers' houses, a lamb for a household;
rsv@Exodus:12:4 @ and if the household is too small for a lamb, then a man and his neighbor next to his house shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.
rsv@Exodus:12:5 @ Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old; you shall take it from the sheep or from the goats;
rsv@Exodus:12:6 @ and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs in the evening.
rsv@Exodus:12:7 @ Then they shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat them.
rsv@Exodus:12:8 @ They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted; with unleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it.
rsv@Exodus:12:9 @ Do not eat any of it raw or boiled with water, but roasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts.
rsv@Exodus:12:10 @ And you shall let none of it remain until the morning, anything that remains until the morning you shall burn.
rsv@Exodus:12:11 @ In this manner you shall eat it: 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.
rsv@Exodus:12:12 @ For I will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will smite all the first-born in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: I am the LORD.
rsv@Exodus:12:13 @ The blood shall be a sign for you, upon the houses where you are; and when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague shall fall upon you to destroy you, when I smite the land of Egypt.
rsv@Exodus:12:14 @ "This day shall be for you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the LORD; throughout your generations you shall observe it as an ordinance for ever.
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