American Standard Version
Exodus 12:5
5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old: ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
Exodus 12:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
- New International Version (NIV)The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats,
- New King James Version (NKJV)Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
Context of Exodus 12:5
3Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to their fathers’ houses, a lamb for a household: 4and if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he and his neighbor next unto his house take one according to the number of the souls; according to every man’s eating ye shall make your count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old: ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats: 6and ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at even. 7And they shall take of the blood, and put it on the two side-posts and on the lintel, upon the houses wherein they shall eat it.
Read all of Exodus 12Exodus 12:5 word by word
שֶׂ֥ה תָמִ֛ים זָכָ֥ר בֶּן־שָׁנָ֖ה יִהְיֶ֣ה לָכֶ֑ם מִן־הַכְּבָשִׂ֥ים וּמִן־הָעִזִּ֖ים תִּקָּֽחוּ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Exodus 12:5
- Leviticus 1:3If his oblation be a burnt-offering of the herd, he shall offer it a male without blemish: he shall offer it at the door of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before Jehovah.
- Leviticus 22:19that ye may be accepted, ye shall offer a male without blemish, of the bullocks, of the sheep, or of the goats.
- Deuteronomy 17:1Thou shalt not sacrifice unto Jehovah thy God an ox, or a sheep, wherein is a blemish, or anything evil; for that is an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.
- Malachi 1:7Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar. And ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of Jehovah is contemptible.
- Hebrews 7:26For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
- Hebrews 9:13For if the blood of goats and bulls, and the ashes of a heifer sprinkling them that have been defiled, sanctify unto the cleanness of the flesh:
- 1 Peter 1:18knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;
- Leviticus 23:12And in the day when ye wave the sheaf, ye shall offer a he-lamb without blemish a year old for a burnt-offering unto Jehovah.
- 1 Samuel 13:1Saul wasfortyyears old when he began to reign; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,
Commentaries on Exodus 12:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Without blemish - Having no natural imperfection, no disease, no deficiency or redundancy of parts. On this point the rabbins have trifled most egregiously, reckoning fifty blemishes that render a lamb or kid, or any animal, improper to be sacrificed: five in the ear, three in the eyelid, eight in the eye, three in the nose, six in the mouth, etc., etc. A male of the first year - That is, any age in the first year between eight days and twelve months…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Without blemish - This is in accordance with the general rule (margin reference): although in this case there is a special reason, since the lamb was in place of the firstborn male in each household. The restriction to the first year is unique, and refers apparently to the condition of perfect innocence in the antitype, the Lamb of God.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5unblemished: We must give God our best, just as he gave us his best: “Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot” (1 Peter 1:19).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. lamb ... without blemish--The smallest deformity or defect made a lamb unfit for sacrifice--a type of Christ (He 7:26; 1Pe 1:19). a male of the first year--Christ in the prime of life.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Exodus 12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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