Exo 12:2-11, 18, 43-49, Lev 23:5-8, Num 9:3-5, Deu 16:1-8, Eze 45:21-24 | ESV | STEP | This month shall be for you the beginning of months . It shall be the first month of the year for you.

2 ^a“This month shall be for you the beginning of months. It shall be the first month of the year for you. 3 Tell all the congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month every man shall take a lamb ^baccording to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household. 4 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. 5 Your lamb shall be ^cwithout blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats, 6 and you shall keep it until the ^dfourteenth day of this month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill their lambs at twilight. ^{▼▼Hebrew between the two evenings}

7 “Then they shall take some of the blood and put it on the ^ftwo doorposts and the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8 They shall eat the flesh that night, roasted on the fire; with ^gunleavened bread and bitter herbs they shall eat it. 9 Do not eat any of it raw or boiled in water, but ^hroasted, its head with its legs and its inner parts. 10 And ⁱyou shall let none of it remain until the morning; anything that remains until the morning you shall burn. 11 In this manner you shall eat it: with ^jyour belt fastened, your sandals on your feet, and your staff in your hand. And you shall eat it in haste. ^kIt is the Lord’s Passover.

Exodus 12:18

18 ^lIn the first month, from the fourteenth day of the month at evening, you shall eat unleavened bread until the twenty-first day of the month at evening.

Exodus 12:43-49

Institution of the Passover

43 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron, “This is the statute of the Passover: no foreigner shall eat of it, 44 but every slave ^{▼▼Or servant; the Hebrew term ‘ebed designates a range of social and economic roles (see Preface)} that is ⁿbought for money may eat of it after you have circumcised him. 45 ^oNo foreigner or hired worker may eat of it. 46 It shall be eaten in one house; you shall not take any of the flesh outside the house, and ^pyou shall not break any of its bones. 47 ^qAll the congregation of Israel shall keep it. 48 ^rIf a stranger shall sojourn with you and would keep the Passover to the Lord, let all his males be circumcised. Then he may come near and keep it; he ^sshall be as a native of the land. But no uncircumcised person shall eat of it. 49 There shall be ^tone law for the native and for the ^ustranger who sojourns among you.”

Leviticus 23:5-8

5 ^vIn the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month at twilight, ^{▼▼Hebrew between the two evenings} is the Lord’s Passover. 6 And on the fifteenth day of the same month is the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the Lord; for seven days you shall eat unleavened bread. 7 ^xOn the first day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work. 8 But you shall present a food offering to the Lord for seven days. On the seventh day is a holy convocation; you shall not do any ordinary work.”

Numbers 9:3-5

3 ^yOn the fourteenth day of this month, at twilight, you shall keep it at its appointed time; according to all its statutes and all its rules you shall keep it.” 4 So Moses told the people of Israel that they should keep the Passover. 5 And they kept the Passover in the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, at twilight, in the wilderness of Sinai; according to all that the Lord commanded Moses, so the people of Israel did.

Deuteronomy 16:1-8

Passover

1 “Observe the ^zmonth of Abib and keep the Passover to the Lord your God, for ^aain the month of Abib the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night. 2 And you shall offer the Passover sacrifice to the Lord your God, from the flock or ^abthe herd, ^acat the place that the Lord will choose, to make his name dwell there. 3 You shall eat no leavened bread with it. ^adSeven days you shall eat it with unleavened bread, the bread of affliction—for you came out of the land of Egypt ^aein haste—that all the days of your life you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt. 4 ^afNo leaven shall be seen with you in all your territory for seven days, ^agnor shall any of the flesh that you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain all night until morning. 5 You may not offer the Passover sacrifice within any of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, 6 but at the place that the Lord your God will choose, to make his name dwell in it, there you shall offer the Passover sacrifice, in the evening at sunset, at the time you came out of Egypt. 7 And you shall cook it and eat it at the place that the Lord your God will choose. And in the morning you shall turn and go to your tents. 8 For ^ahsix days you shall eat unleavened bread, and on the seventh day there shall be ^aia solemn assembly to the Lord your God. You shall do no work on it.

Ezekiel 45:21-24

21 ^aj“In the first month, on the fourteenth day of the month, you shall celebrate the Feast of the Passover, and for seven days unleavened bread shall be eaten. 22 On that day the prince ^akshall provide for himself and all the people of the land a young bull for a sin offering. 23 And on ^althe seven days of the festival he shall provide as a burnt offering to the Lord seven young bulls and seven rams without blemish, on each of the seven days; and ^ama male goat daily for a sin offering. 24 And ^anhe shall provide as ^aoa grain offering an ephah for each bull, an ephah for each ram, and a hin ^{▼▼A hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters} of oil to each ephah.