Exodus 12:4-6

Lexham English Bible

⁴ And if the household is too small for a lamb, he and the neighbor nearest to his house will take one according to the number of persons;^[a] you will count out portions of the lamb according to how much each one can eat.^{[b] 5} The lamb for you must be a male, without defect, in its first year; you will take it from the sheep or from the goats.

⁶ “You will keep it^[c] until the fourteenth day of this month, and all the assembly of the community of Israel will slaughter it at twilight.^[d]