Your lamb shall be (A)without[a] blemish, a male [b]of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. Now you shall keep it until the (B)fourteenth day of the same month. Then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at twilight. And they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses where they eat it.

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 12:5 perfect or sound
  2. Exodus 12:5 a year old

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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