Exodus 12:21

Then Moses summoned all the elders of Israel, and told them, “Go and select ¹  for yourselves a lamb or young goat ²  for your families, and kill the Passover animals. ³ 

Ex 3:16; Ex 12:3; Ex 17:5; Ex 19:7; Nu 9:2-5; Nu 11:16; Jos 5:10; 2Ki 23:21; 2Ch 30:15-17; 2Ch 35:5,6; Ezr 6:20; Mt 26:17-19; Mr 14:12-16; Lu 22:7-13; 1Co 10:4

¹ tn Heb “draw out and take.” The verb has in view the need “to draw out” a lamb or goat selected from among the rest of the flock.

² tn The Hebrew noun is singular and can refer to either a lamb or a goat. Since English has no common word for both, the phrase “a lamb or young goat” is used in the translation.

³ tn The word “animals” is added to avoid giving the impression in English that the Passover festival itself is the object of “kill.”