² “This month is to be for you the first month,^(A) the first month of your year. ³ Tell the whole community of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man is to take a lamb^[a](B) for his family, one for each household.^{(C) 4} If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat. ⁵ The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect,^(D) and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. ⁶ Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month,^(E) when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.^{(F) 7} Then they are to take some of the blood^(G) and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs. ⁸ That same night^(H) they are to eat the meat roasted^(I) over the fire, along with bitter herbs,^(J) and bread made without yeast.^{(K) 9} Do not eat the meat raw or boiled in water, but roast it over a fire—with the head, legs and internal organs.^{(L) 10} Do not leave any of it till morning;^(M) if some is left till morning, you must burn it. ¹¹ This is how you are to eat it: with your cloak tucked into your belt, your sandals on your feet and your staff in your hand. Eat it in haste;^(N) it is the Lord’s Passover.^(O)

²⁵ “Say to Aaron and his sons: ‘These are the regulations for the sin offering:^(A) The sin offering is to be slaughtered before the Lord^(B) in the place^(C) the burnt offering is slaughtered; it is most holy.

¹³ Now it was the practice^(A) of the priests that, whenever any of the people offered a sacrifice, the priest’s servant would come with a three-pronged fork in his hand while the meat^(B) was being boiled ¹⁴ and would plunge the fork into the pan or kettle or caldron or pot. Whatever the fork brought up the priest would take for himself. This is how they treated all the Israelites who came to Shiloh. ¹⁵ But even before the fat was burned, the priest’s servant would come and say to the person who was sacrificing, “Give the priest some meat to roast; he won’t accept boiled meat from you, but only raw.”