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Your lamb is to be without blemish, a year old male.[a] You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. You must watch over it until the fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to slaughter it at twilight. [b] They are to take the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the crossbeam of the houses where they will eat it.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 12:5 cf. 1 Pet. 1:19.
  2. Exodus 12:7 Lit. 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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