Slaughter the Passover lambs, consecrate yourselves, and make preparations for your countrymen to do what the <sc>Lordsc> commanded through Moses.&#8221;<n id="1" />p>

You must care for it<n id="1" /> until the fourteenth day of this month, and then the whole community<n id="2" /> of Israel will kill it around sundown.<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel, and told them, &#8220;Go and select<n id="1" /> for yourselves a lamb or young goat<n id="2" /> for your families, and kill the Passover animals.<n id="3" />

He must lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, must splash the blood against the altar&#8217;s sides.<n id="1" />