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Now the Lord spoke to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,
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"This month shall be your beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year to you.
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Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying: 'On the tenth day of this month every man shall take for himself a lamb, according to the house of his father, a lamb for a household.
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And if the household is too small for the lamb, let him and his neighbor next to his house take it according to the number of the persons; according to each man's need you shall make your count for the lamb.
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Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
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Now you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight.
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And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.
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Then they shall eat the flesh on that night; roasted in fire, with unleavened bread and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
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Do not eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted in fire--its head with its legs and its entrails.