OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 6

Exodus 12:6

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You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.

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Exodus 12:3–9

3

Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household;

4

and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls. You shall make your count for the lamb according to what everyone can eat.

5

Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep or from the goats.

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You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.

7

They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two door posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.

8

They shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, with unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.

9

Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.

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