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Exodus 12:5
5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a yearling male; 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 unto all the assembly of Israel, saying, On the tenth of this month let them take themselves each a lamb, for a father's house, a lamb for a house. 4And if the household be too small for a lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take [it] according to the number of the souls; each according to [the measure] of his eating shall ye count for the lamb. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a yearling male; ye shall take [it] from the sheep, or from the goats. 6And ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole congregation of the assembly of Israel shall kill it between the two evenings. 7And they shall take of the blood, and put [it] on the two door-posts and on the lintel of the houses in which they 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 offering be a burnt-offering of the herd, he shall present it a male without blemish: at the entrance of the tent of meeting shall he present it, for his acceptance before Jehovah.
- Leviticus 22:19it shall be for your acceptance, without blemish, a male of the oxen, of the sheep, and of the goats.
- Deuteronomy 17:1Thou shalt not sacrifice to Jehovah thy God an ox or sheep wherein is a defect, or anything bad; for it is an abomination to 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, harmless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and become higher than the heavens:
- Hebrews 9:13For if the blood of goats and bulls, and a heifer's ashes sprinkling the defiled, sanctifies for the purity of the flesh,
- 1 Peter 1:18knowing that ye have been redeemed, not by corruptible [things, as] silver or gold, from your vain conversation handed down from [your] fathers,
- Leviticus 23:12And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf, a he-lamb without blemish, a yearling, for a burnt-offering to Jehovah;
- 1 Samuel 13:1Saul was...years old when he became king; and he 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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