Exodus 12:5
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
Exodus 12:5 in other translations
| BSB | Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats. |
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| WEB | Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep or from the goats. |
| ASV | Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old: ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats: |
| YLT | 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. |
| DARBY | Your lamb shall be without blemish, a yearling male; ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats. |
| BBE | Let your lamb be without a mark, a male in its first year: you may take it from among the sheep or the goats: |
| Webster | Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it from the sheep or from the goats: |
What does Exodus 12:5 mean?
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Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Exodus 12:1-20
The death of the first-born of the Egyptians, The Israelites urged to leave the land of Egypt. (29-36) The Israelites' first journey to Succoth. (37-42) Ordinance respecting the passover. (43-51) Verses 1-20 The Lord makes all things new to those whom he delivers from the bondage of Satan, and takes to himself to be his people. The time when he does this is to them the beginning of a new life. God appointed that, on…
Exodus 12:5 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Exodus 12:5
- Hebrews 9:13-14
For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh: How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?
- 1 Peter 1:18-19
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers; But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
- Malachi 1:14
But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the Lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.
- Malachi 1:7-8
Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar; and ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of the Lord is contemptible. And if ye offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if ye offer the lame and sick, is it not evil? offer it now unto thy governor; will he be pleased with thee, or accept thy person? saith the Lord of hosts.
- Deuteronomy 17:1
Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the Lord thy God.
- Leviticus 23:12
And ye shall offer that day when ye wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering unto the Lord.
- Hebrews 7:26
For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
- Leviticus 22:18-24
Speak unto Aaron, and to his sons, and unto all the children of Israel, and say unto them, Whatsoever he be of the house of Israel, or of the strangers in Israel, that will offer his oblation for all his vows, and for all his freewill offerings, which they will offer unto the Lord for a burnt offering; Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats. But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you. And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein. …
- Leviticus 1:10
And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish.
- Leviticus 1:3
If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord.
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Context
- Exodus 12:4
And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb.
- Exodus 12:5
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
- Exodus 12:6
And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening.
Exodus 12:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | El cordero será sin defecto, macho de un año: tomaréislo de las ovejas ó de las cabras: |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Vous aurez un agneau sans défaut, mâle, âgé d’un an; vous le prendrez d’entre les moutons ou d’entre les chèvres; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Ein Lamm ohne Fehl sollt ihr haben, ein männliches, einjährig; von den Schafen oder von den Ziegen sollt ihr es nehmen. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Erit autem agnus absque macula, masculus, anniculus: juxta quem ritum tolletis et hædum. |