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Douay-Rheims Bible

Exodus 12:5

And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one year; according to which rite also you shall take a kid.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Atonement;   Goat;   Israel;   Month;   Passover;   Symbols and Similitudes;   Scofield Reference Index - Israel;   Sacrifice;   Thompson Chain Reference - Giving;   Unblemished;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Atonement, the;   Egypt;   Goat, the;   Lamb, the;   Paschal Lamb, Typical Nature of;   Types of Christ;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Abib;   Exodus;   Goat;   Lamb;   Passover;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Lamb;   Passover;   Plague;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Animals;   Celebrate, Celebration;   Deuteronomy, Theology of;   Lamb, Lamb of God;   Remember, Remembrance;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Passover;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Frontlets;   Goat;   Lamb;   Sacrifice;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Lamb;   Passover;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Blood;   Exodus, Book of;   Salvation;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Exodus;   Goat;   Moses;   Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Passover (I.);   Redemption;   Samaria, Samaritans;   Type;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Passover, the;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Hour;   Passover;   People's Dictionary of the Bible - Goat;   Lamb;   Passover;   Plagues of egypt;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Law of Moses;   Pass'over,;   Watson's Biblical & Theological Dictionary - Plagues of Egypt;  

Encyclopedias:

- Condensed Biblical Cyclopedia - Exodus, the;   On to Sinai;   Hebrew Calendar;   Sabbath and Feasts;   Priesthood, the;   Moses, the Man of God;   Conquest of Canaan;   Law of Moses, the;   International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Lord's Supper (Eucharist);   Moses;   Passover;   Sacrifice;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Festivals;   Goat;   Hafṭarah;   Law, Reading from the;   Musa of Tiflis;   Parashiyyot, the Four;   Passover Sacrifice;   Priestly Code;   Sacrifice;  

Devotionals:

- Daily Light on the Daily Path - Devotion for August 2;  

Parallel Translations

Hebrew Names Version
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
King James Version
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
Lexham English Bible
The lamb for you must be a male, without defect, in its first year; you will take it from the sheep or from the goats.
New Century Version
The lamb must be a one-year-old male that has nothing wrong with it. This animal can be either a young sheep or a young goat.
New English Translation
Your lamb must be perfect, a male, one year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
Amplified Bible
'Your lamb or young goat shall be [perfect] without blemish or bodily defect, a male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
New American Standard Bible
'Your lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
Geneva Bible (1587)
Your lambe shalbe without blemish, a male of a yeere olde: ye shall take it of the lambes, or of the kiddes.
Legacy Standard Bible
Your lamb shall be a male, without blemish, a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
Complete Jewish Bible
Your animal must be without defect, a male in its first year, and you may choose it from either the sheep or the goats.
Darby Translation
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a yearling male; ye shall take [it] from the sheep, or from the goats.
Easy-to-Read Version
The lamb must be a one-year-old male, and it must be completely healthy. This animal can be either a young sheep or a young goat.
English Standard Version
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats,
George Lamsa Translation
The lamb shall be without blemish. a male of the first year; you shall take it from the lambs or from the kids:
Good News Translation
You may choose either a sheep or a goat, but it must be a one-year-old male without any defects.
Christian Standard Bible®
You must have an unblemished animal, a year-old male; you may take it from either the sheep or the goats.
Literal Translation
A flock animal, a male without blemish, a yearling, shall be to you. You shall take from the sheep or from the goats.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
But it shal be a lambe without blemish, a male, & of a yeare olde. From amonge the lambes & goates shal ye take it.
American Standard Version
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old: ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
Bible in Basic English
Let your lamb be without a mark, a male in its first year: you may take it from among the sheep or the goats:
Bishop's Bible (1568)
And let the lambe of yours be without blemishe, a male of a yere olde [whiche] ye shal take out from among the sheepe, and from among the goates.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year; ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats;
King James Version (1611)
Your lambe shall be without blemish, a male of the first yeere: yee shall take it out from the sheepe or from the goates.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
It shall be to you a lamb unblemished, a male of a year old: ye shall take it of the lambs and the kids.
English Revised Version
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
Berean Standard Bible
Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Forsothe the lomb schal be a male of o yeer, without wem; bi which custom ye schulen take also a kide;
Young's Literal Translation
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].
Update Bible Version
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old: you shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
Webster's Bible Translation
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take [it] from the sheep or from the goats:
World English Bible
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
New King James Version
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
New Living Translation
The animal you select must be a one-year-old male, either a sheep or a goat, with no defects.
New Life Bible
Your lamb must be perfect, a male lamb one year old. You may take it from the sheep or the goats.
New Revised Standard
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old male; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
A lamb without defect a male a year old, shall yours be, - from the sheep or from the goats, shall ye take it.
Revised Standard Version
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old; you shall take it from the sheep or from the goats;
New American Standard Bible (1995)
'Your lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

Contextual Overview

1 And the Lord said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt: 2 This month shall be to you the beginning of months; it shall be the first in the months of the year. 3 Speak ye to the whole assembly of the children of Israel, and say to them: On the tenth day of this month let every man take a lamb by their families and houses. 4 But if the number be less than may suffice to eat the lamb, he shall take unto him his neighbour that joineth to his house, according to the number of souls which may be enough to eat the lamb. 5 And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one year; according to which rite also you shall take a kid. 6 And you shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month; and the whole multitude of the children of Israel shall sacrifice it in the evening. 7 And they shall take of the blood thereof, and put it upon both the side posts, and on the upper door posts of the houses, wherein they shall eat it. 8 And they shall eat the flesh that night roasted at the fire, and unleavened bread with wild lettuce. 9 You shall not eat thereof any thing raw, nor boiled in water, but only roasted at the fire; you shall eat the head with the feet and entrails thereof. 10 Neither shall there remain any thing of it until morning. If there be any thing left, you shall burn it with fire.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

be without: Leviticus 1:3, Leviticus 1:10, Leviticus 22:19-24, Deuteronomy 17:1, Malachi 1:7, Malachi 1:8, Malachi 1:14, Hebrews 7:26, Hebrews 9:13, Hebrews 9:14, 1 Peter 1:18, 1 Peter 1:19

a male of the first year: Heb. son of a year, Leviticus 23:12, 1 Samuel 13:1, *marg.

Reciprocal: Exodus 12:3 - lamb Exodus 29:1 - without Leviticus 4:32 - a lamb Leviticus 9:3 - both Numbers 7:39 - General Numbers 19:2 - no blemish Deuteronomy 16:2 - sacrifice Ezekiel 46:13 - of the first year Micah 6:6 - of a year old 1 Corinthians 5:7 - Christ

Cross-References

Genesis 10:19
And the limits of Chanaan were from Sidon as one comes to Gerara even to Gaza, until thou enter Sodom and Gomorrha, and Adama, and Seboim even to Lesa.
Genesis 11:31
And Thare took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Aran, his son’s son, and Sarai his daughter in law, the wife of Abram his son, and brought them out of Ur of the Chaldees, to go into the land of Chanaan: and they came as far as Haran, and dwelt there.
Genesis 12:5
And he took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son, and all the substance which they had gathered, and the souls which they had gotten in Haran: and they went out to go into the land of Chanaan. And when they were come into it,
Genesis 12:8
And passing on from thence to a mountain, that was on the east side of Bethel, he there pitched his tent, having Bethel on the west, and Hai on the east: he built there also an altar to the Lord, and called upon his name.
Genesis 12:9
And Abram went forward, going and proceeding on to the south.
Genesis 14:14
Which when Abram had heard, to wit, that his brother Lot was taken, he numbered of the servants born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, well appointed: and pursued them to Dan.
Genesis 14:21
And the king of Sodom said to Abram: Give me the persons, and the rest take to thyself.
Acts 7:4
Then he went out of the land of the Chaldeans and dwelt in Charan. And from thence, after his father was dead, he removed him into this land, wherein you now dwell.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Your lamb shall be without blemish,.... Without any spot or defect in it. Maimonides h reckons no less than fifty blemishes in a creature, anyone of which makes it unfit for sacrifice, see

Leviticus 21:21. This lamb was a type of Christ, who is therefore said to be our passover sacrificed for us, 1 Corinthians 5:7 comparable to a lamb for his innocence and harmlessness, for his meekness, humility, and patience, for usefulness both for food and raiment, as well as for being fit for sacrifice; and who is a lamb without spot and blemish, either of original sin, or actual transgression, holy in his nature, harmless in his life:

a male of the first year; anyone within that time, but not beyond it; denoting the strength and vigour of Christ, in the flower of his age, his short continuance among men, and his being tender and savoury food for the faith of his people:

ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats; it might be either a lamb, or a kid of the goats; for the most part, or generally, it was a lamb that was taken; so the Jewish canon runs i,

"he that says to his servant, go and slay for me the passover, if he slays a kid he may eat it; if he slays a lamb he may eat of it; if he slays a kid and a lamb, he may eat of the first.''

The goat being of an ill smell may denote Christ being made sin, and a sin offering for his people; and the taking of a lamb from these may signify the choice of Christ from among the people in the council and covenant of God; the preordination of him to be the lamb slain from the foundation of the world; the preservation of him from the infection of sin in his incarnation, and the separation of him from sinners in his conversation.

h Hilchot Biath Hamikdash, c. 7. sect. 1. i Misn. Pesach. c. 8. sect. 2.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Without 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.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Exodus 12:5. Without 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, c., &c.

A male of the first year — That is, any age in the first year between eight days and twelve months.

From the sheep, or from the goats — The שה seh means either and either was equally proper if without blemish. The Hebrews however in general preferred the lamb to the kid.


 
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