Exodus Chapter 12 verse 5 Holy Bible
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old: ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
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Let your lamb be without a mark, a male in its first year: you may take it from among the sheep or the goats:
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Your lamb shall be without blemish, a yearling male; ye shall take [it] from the sheep, or from the goats.
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Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
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Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it from the sheep or from the goats:
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Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
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a lamb, a perfect one, a male, a son of a year, let be to you; from the sheep or from the goats ye do take `it'.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 5. Your lamb shall be without blemish. Natural piety would teach that "the blind, the lame, and the sick" should not be selected for sacrifice (Malachi 1:8). The Law afterwards expressly forbade any blemished animals - "blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed" - to be offered for any of the stated sacrifices, though they might be given as free-will offerings (Leviticus 22:20-25). The absence of blemish was especially important in a victim which was to typify One "holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners." A male. As standing in place of and redeeming the first-born of the males in each family. Of the first year. Perhaps as then more approaching to the ideal of perfect innocence. The requirement was not a usual one. Or from the goats. Theodoret says the proviso was made for the relief of the poorer class of persons; but practically it seems not to have taken effect. When people were poor, their richer neighbours supplied them with lambs (Kalisch).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(5) Without blemish.--Natural piety teaches that we must not "offer the blind, the lame, or the sick for sacrifice" (Malachi 1:8). We must give to (God of our best. The Law emphasized this teaching, and here, on the first occasion when a sacrifice was formally appointed, required it to be absolutely without blemish of any kind. Afterwards the requirement was made general (Leviticus 22:19-25). It was peculiarly fitting that the Paschal offering should be without defect of any kind, as especially typifying "the Lamb of God," who is "holy, harmless, undefiled"--a "lamb without spot."A male.--Males were reckoned superior to females, and were especially appropriate here, since the victim represented the firstborn male in each house.Of the first year--i.e., not above a year old. As children are most innocent when young, so even animals were thought to be.
