Exodus 12:44-45-51 Holy Bible: Easy-To-Read Version (ETR)

5. The lamb must be a one-year-old male, and it must be completely healthy. This animal can be either a young sheep or a young goat.

6. You should watch over the animal until the 14th day of the month. On that day all the people of the community of Israel must kill these animals just before dark.

7. You must collect the blood from these animals and put it on the top and sides of the doorframe of every house where the people eat this meal.

8. “On this night you must roast the lamb and eat all the meat. You must also eat bitter herbs and bread made without yeast.

9. You must not eat the lamb raw or boiled in water. You must roast the whole lamb over a fire. The lamb must still have its head, legs, and inner parts.

44-45. A foreigner who is only a hired worker or is only staying in your country is not allowed to eat the meal. But if someone buys a slave and circumcises him, then the slave can eat the Passover meal.

46. “Each family must eat the meal in one house. None of the food is to be taken outside the house. Don’t break any of the lamb’s bones.

47. The whole community of Israel must do this ceremony.

48. If a foreigner living among you wants to share in the Lord’S Passover, he must be circumcised. Then he can share in the meal like any other citizen of Israel. But a man who is not circumcised cannot eat the Passover meal.

49. The same rules are for everyone. It doesn’t matter if they are citizens or foreigners living among you.”

50. So all the Israelites obeyed the commands that the Lord gave to Moses and Aaron.

51. On that same day the Lord led all the Israelites out of the country of Egypt. The people left in groups.

Exodus 12