Your [a]lamb shall be (A)an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats. [b]You shall keep it until the (B)fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to slaughter it [c](C)at twilight. (D)Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel [d]of the houses in which they eat it.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 12:5 Or kid
  2. Exodus 12:6 Lit It shall be to you for a guarding
  3. Exodus 12:6 Lit between the two evenings
  4. Exodus 12:7 Lit upon

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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