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And the LORDspake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt,saying,
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This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the firstmonth of the year to you.
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Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel,saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb,[a] according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:
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And if the householdbe too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbournext unto his housetake it according to the number of the souls; every manaccording to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
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Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the firstyear: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
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And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth*day of the same month: and the wholeassembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in[b] the evening.
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And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.
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And they shall eat the flesh in that night,roast with fire, and unleavened bread; and with bitter herbs they shall eat it.
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Eat not of it raw, nor sodden* at all with water, but roast with fire; his head with his legs, and with the purtenance thereof.