Exodus 12:3-8

³Tell all the Israeli people that in each family, the man who heads the family must select a lamb or a young goat for his household.

⁴If there are not enough people in his family to eat a whole cooked lamb, then his family and the family that lives next door may share one animal. Decide how many lambs you need according to the number of people in each family, and according to how much each person can eat.

⁵The lambs or goats that you choose must be males, one-year-old, and they must not have any defects.

⁶You must take special care of these animals until the 14th day of the month. On that day, all the Israeli people must slaughter the lambs or goats in the evening.

⁷Then they must take some of the blood from the lambs or goats, and they must smear it on the doorposts and the ◄lintels/horizontal beams above the doorways► of the houses in which they will eat the meat.

⁸They must roast the animals immediately and eat the meat that night. They must eat it with bread that is baked without yeast and with bitter herbs.