And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take according to the number of persons; according to what each can eat you shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be (A)without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, and you shall keep it until the (B)fourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Exodus 12:6 Hebrew between the two evenings

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. The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect,(A) and you may take them from the sheep or the goats. Take care of them until the fourteenth day of the month,(B) when all the members of the community of Israel must slaughter them at twilight.(C)

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