Old Testament

Exodus 12:1-3
Instructions for the Passover and the Festival of Unleavened Bread
121The Lord told Moses and Aaron this in the land of Egypt:[]
2This month is to be the beginning of your calendar. It is to be the first month of the year for you. 3Tell the entire Israelite community that on the tenth day of this month, they are to take a lamb or a kid goat[] for themselves, according to their fathers' households, one lamb per household.

Footnotes

  • 12:1 Throughout the translation, long speeches, sets of instructions, and oracles are treated as single documents, not as sets of quotations. Such documents are not set off by quotation marks. Within these documents, regular rules for quotation marks apply.
  • 12:3 One Hebrew word means both lamb and kid.