Exodus 12:4
2 “This month is the beginning of months for you; it shall be the first month of your year.
3 Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must select a lamb for his family, one per household.
If the household is too small for a whole lamb, they are to share with the nearest neighbor based on the number of people, and apportion the lamb accordingly.
5 Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.
6 You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
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- BSB
- If the household is too small for a whole lamb, they are to share with the nearest neighbor based on the number of people, and apportion the lamb accordingly.
- KJV
- And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
- WEB
- 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. You shall make your count for the lamb according to what everyone can eat.
- ASV
- and if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he and his neighbor next unto his house take one according to the number of the souls; according to every man`s eating ye shall make your count for the lamb.
- DARBY
- And if the household be too small for a lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take [it] according to the number of the souls; each according to [the measure] of his eating shall ye count for the lamb.
- BLB
- And if the house is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor who is near to his house shall take [it] by the number of souls, each man according to the mouth of his eating, you⁺ shall count for the lamb.
- ÅB
- Men dersom huset er for lite til et lam, skal han og hans nærmeste nabo ta et lam sammen etter tallet på deres husfolk; etter hva enhver spiser, skal dere regne folk på hvert lam.
- OTB
- Men hvis husstanden er for liten til et lam, skal han og hans nærmeste nabo ta ett etter antallet personer; dere skal dele lammet etter hvor mye hver enkelt kan spise.
- B1930
- Men dersom huset er for lite til et lam, skal han og hans nærmeste nabo ta et lam sammen efter tallet på deres husfolk; efter hvad enhver eter, skal I regne folk på hvert lam.