A Lamb for Each Household and Not One for Many Families

Yalkut Shimoni on Torah 192:2

"A man a lamb for a father's house" (Exodus 12:3). The term "lamb" includes both a kid and a young sheep, as it is said, "a sheep of the flock and a goat" (Deuteronomy 14:4). "For a father's house"—"a father's house" means nothing other than families, as it is said, "by their families, by their fathers' houses" (Numbers 1:2). Now, suppose there were ten families belonging to a single father's house; I might hear that there is one lamb for them all. Scripture says, "a lamb for a house"—[one for each household].

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