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The lamb for you must be a male, without defect, in its first year; you will take it from the sheep or from the goats.

You will keep it[a] until the fourteenth day of this month, and all the assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter it at twilight.[b] And they will take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel on the houses in which they eat it.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 12:6 Literally “It will be for you for observation”
  2. Exodus 12:6 Literally “between the evenings”

The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect,(A) and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month,(B) when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.(C) Then they are to take some of the blood(D) and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.

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Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:

And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.

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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