Liturgical Colour : Black

Exodus 12 : 1-11

In diebus illis : Dixit Dominus ad Moysen et Aaron in terra Aegypti : Mensis iste vobis principium mensium primus erit in mensibus anni. Loquimini ad universum caetum filiorum Israel, et dicite eis : Decima die mensis hujus tollat unusquisque agnum per familias et domos suas. Sin autem minor est numerus, ut sufficere possit ad vescendum agnum, assumet vicinum suum, qui junctus est domui suae, juxta numerum animarum, quae sufficere possunt ad esum agni.

Erit autem agnus absque macula, masculus, anniculus : juxta quem ritum tolletis et haedum. Et servabitis eum usque ad quartam decimam diem mensis hujus : immolabitque eum universa multitudo filiorum Israel ad vesperam. Et sument de sanguine ejus, ac ponent super utrumque postem et in superliminaribus domorum, in quibus comendent illum. Et edent carnes nocte illa assas igni, et azymos panes cum lactucis agrestibus.

Non comedetis ex eo crudum quid nec coctum aqua, sed tantum assum igni : caput cum pedibus ejus et intestinis vorabitis. Nec remanebit quidquam ex eo usque mane. Si quid residuum fuerit, igne comburetis. Sic autem comedetis illum : Renes vestros accingetis, et calceamenta habebitis in pedibus, tenentes baculos in manibus, et comedetis festinanter : est enim Phase (id est transitus) Domini.

English translation

In those days, the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, “This month shall be to you the beginning of months. It shall be the first in the months of the year. Speak to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and say to them : On the tenth day of this month let every man take a lamb by their families and houses. But if the number is less than what is sufficient to eat the lamb, he shall take unto him his neighbour that is joined to his house, according to the number of souls which may be enough to eat the lamb.”

“And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one year, according to which rite you also will take a kid. And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the evening. And they shall take of the blood thereof, and put it upon both the side posts, and on the upper door posts of the houses, in which they shall eat it. And they shall eat the flesh that night roasted in the fire, and unleavened bread with wild lettuce.”

“You shall not eat thereof anything raw, nor boiled in water, but only roasted at the fire. You shall eat the head with the feet and entrails thereof. Neither shall there remain anything of it until morning. If there be anything left, you shall burn it with fire. And thus you shall eat it, you shall gird your reins, and you shall have shoes on your feet, holding staves in your hands, and you shall eat in haste, for it is the Passover (that is, the Passage) of the Lord.”