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ADONAI spoke to Moshe and Aharon in the land of Egypt; he said,
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"You are to begin your calendar with this month; it will be the first month of the year for you.
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Speak to all the assembly of Isra'el and say, 'On the tenth day of this month, each man is to take a lamb or kid for his family, one per household -
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except that if the household is too small for a whole lamb or kid, then he and his next-door neighbor should share one, dividing it in proportion to the number of people eating it.
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Your animal must be without defect, a male in its first year, and you may choose it from either the sheep or the goats.
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"'You are to keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, and then the entire assembly of the community of Isra'el will slaughter it at dusk.