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Ramban on Exodus 12:9/רמב"ן על שמות י״ב:ט׳

אאַל תֹּאכְלוּ מִמֶּנּוּ נָא וּבָשֵׁל זוֹ מִצְוָה לְדוֹרוֹת, שֶׁכָּל הַמִּצְוֹת בְּכָאן בְּגוּף הַפֶּסַח מִצְוָה לְדוֹרוֹת, אֲבָל הַמִּצְוָה בָּאוֹכְלִים, כְּגוֹן "מָתְנֵיכֶם חֲגֻרִים" (שמות י"ב:י"א), וְהַדָּם עַל הַמַּשְׁקוֹף (שמות י"ב:ז'), אֵינֶנּוּ רַק בְּפֶסַח מִצְרַיִם. וְכֵן אָמַר הַכָּתוּב בְּפֶסַח שֵׁנִי (במדבר ט יא יב) "עַל מַצּוֹת וּמְרֹרִים יֹאכְלֻהוּ, לֹא יַשְׁאִירוּ מִמֶּנּוּ עַד בֹּקֶר וְעֶצֶם לֹא יִשְׁבְּרוּ בוֹ כְּכָל חֻקַּת הַפֶּסַח יַעֲשׂוּ אֹתוֹ", שֶׁהֵן צְלִי אֵשׁ, לֹא נָא וְלֹא מְבֻשָּׁל:

1EAT NOT OF IT RAW, NOR SODDEN AT ALL WITH WATER. This commandment applies for all generations [and not merely for the Passover at the time of the exodus], for all commandments here relate to the body of the Passover-offering and therefore apply for all times. But the commandments concerning those that eat thereof — such as your loins girded, etc.,¹⁷⁹ and the blood which is to be on the lintel¹⁸⁰ — apply only to the Passover of Egypt. And so Scripture says concerning the second Passover-offering: They shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs; They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break a bone thereof; according to all the statute of the Passover they shall keep it.¹⁸¹ [The expression, according to all the statute, etc.], refers to the law of roasting with fire, and that it is not to be eaten either raw or sodden.¹⁸².