Deuteronomy 16:1-6
The Festival of Passover
1 “Observe the month of Abib(a)(A) and celebrate the Passover to the Lord your God, because the Lord your God brought you out of Egypt by night in the month of Abib.
2 Sacrifice to Yahweh your God a Passover animal from the herd or flock in the place where the Lord chooses to have His name dwell.(B)
3 You must not eat leavened bread with it. For seven days you are to eat unleavened bread with it, the bread of hardship—because you left the land of Egypt in a hurry—so that you may remember for the rest of your life the day you left the land of Egypt.
4 No yeast is to be found anywhere in your territory for seven days, and none of the meat you sacrifice in the evening of the first day is to remain until morning.
5 You are not to sacrifice the Passover animal in any of the towns the Lord your God is giving you.
6 You must only sacrifice the Passover animal at the place where Yahweh your God chooses to have His name dwell. Do this in the evening as the sun sets at the same time of day you departed from Egypt.
Footnotes:
a.
Deuteronomy 16:1: March–April; called Nisan in the post-exilic period; Neh 2:1; Est 3:7