'Speak to all the assembly of Israel, saying' means influx bearing instructions for all belonging to the spiritual Church. 'On the tenth of this month' means the state of the initiation of the interiors. 'They shall take for themselves each one a member of the flock' means in respect of innocence. 'According to the household of his fathers, a member of the flock according to the household' means according to each one's specific kind of good. 'And if the household is too small for a member of the flock' means if the individual type of good is insufficient for innocence. 'Then he and his neighbour immediately next to his house shall take one' means being joined to the nearest good of truth. 'By the number of the souls, [each of them] according to the mouth of his eating, you shall make your count for the member of the flock' means making the good sufficient for the innocence by filling it out with truths of good in the exact quantity needed for assimilating innocence. 'A perfect member' means spotless innocence. 'A male' means which is characteristic of faith rooted in charity. 'The son of a year it shall be to you' means a complete state. 'From the lambs and from the she-goats you shall take it' means the good of innocence, interior and exterior. 'And you shall keep it' means the time and state of the initiation. 'Until the fourteenth of the month' means leading up to a holy state. 'And all the congregation of the assembly of Israel shall slaughter it' means preparation for enjoyment by all in general belonging to the spiritual Church. 'Between the evenings' means a last and first state.