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What does Exodus 12:6 mean?

"and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening."

— Exodus 12:6 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month, they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household;

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and if the household is too little for a lamb, then he and his neighbor next to his house shall take one according to the number of the souls; according to what everyone can eat you shall make your count for the lamb.

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Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:

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and you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at evening.

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They shall take some of the blood, and put it on the two door posts and on the lintel, on the houses in which they shall eat it.

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They shall eat the meat in that night, roasted with fire, and unleavened bread. They shall eat it with bitter herbs.

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Don’t eat it raw, nor boiled at all with water, but roasted with fire; with its head, its legs and its inner parts.

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