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Exodus 12:2-14

2 ^a“This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. 3 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb ^baccording to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. 4 And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be ^cwithout blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, 6 and you shall keep it until the ^dfourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight. ^{▼

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Hebrew between the two evenings}

7 “Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the ^ftwo doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8 They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with ^gunleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but ^hroasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. 10 And ⁱyou shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. 11 In this manner you shall eat it: with ^jyour belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. ^kIt is the Lord’s Passover. 12 For ^lI will pass through the land of Egypt that night, and I will strike all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and on ^mall the gods of Egypt I will execute judgments: ⁿI am the Lord. 13 ^oThe blood shall be a sign for you, on the houses where you are. And when I see the blood, I will pass over you, and no plague will befall you to destroy you, when I strike the land of Egypt.

14 “This day shall be ^pfor you a memorial day, and you shall keep it as a feast to the Lord; throughout your generations, as a ^qstatute forever, you shall keep it as a feast.