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Exodus 12:1-6. A lamb for the household. Editorial illustration of the Passover instructions, not an additional narrated event. A healthy unblemished year-old male lamb stands naturally in a simple Hebrew household courtyard in ancient Egypt. Two unnamed Hebrew adults inspect it gently: a bearded man in undyed linen and brown shoulder cloth crouches with one hand lightly on its back, a woman in muted ochre shawl stands nearby attentive. Lamb has clean cream wool, natural proportions and intact body, no sacrifice or blood. Low mudbrick walls, reed fence, clay jar and sparse straw, ordinary warm daylight. Intimate ground-level composition centered on the lamb and careful household selection. No Moses, Aaron, royal costume, modern tags, lettering or deity. Tactile hand-inked gouache graphic novel, dignified faces and natural hands. Bronze Age Exodus setting, not first-century staging. One 16:9 single scene. No text or lettering.
Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible.

Exodus 12:1-6

A lamb for the household

Story guide: Yahweh sets a new first month and tells each household to choose an unblemished lamb.

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1The LORD said to Moses and to Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying,

2This month shall be for you the beginning of months; it shall be the first month of the year for you.

3Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, ‘On the tenth day of this month each man shall take for himself a lamb according to his fathers’ house, a lamb for the household.’

4And if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his nearest neighbor shall take one according to the number of persons; each man according to what he can eat, you shall count for the lamb.

5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old; you shall take it from the sheep or from the goats.

6And it shall be kept by you until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall slaughter it between the evenings.

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