Exodus 12:3-8

³Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying: In 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;

⁴and if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he and his neighbour next unto his house take one according to the number of the souls; according to every man's eating ye shall make your count for the lamb.

⁵Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year; ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats;

⁶and ye shall keep it unto the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at dusk.

⁷And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel, upon the houses wherein they shall eat it.

⁸And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; with bitter herbs they shall eat it.