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Exodus 12:5

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3 Tell the whole congregation of Israel that on the tenth day of this month each man must select a lamb for his family, one per household.

4 If the household is too small for a whole lamb, they are to share with the nearest neighbor based on the number of people, and apportion the lamb accordingly.

Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.

6 You must keep it until the fourteenth day of the month, when the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel will slaughter the animals at twilight.

7 They are to take some of the blood and put it on the sides and tops of the doorframes of the houses where they eat the lambs.

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BSB
Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.
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:
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:
DARBY
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a yearling male; ye shall take [it] from the sheep, or from the goats.
BLB
An unblemished lamb, a male, a son of a year, shall be for you⁺. You⁺ shall take [it] from the sheep or from the goats.
ÅB
Det skal være et lam uten lyte, av hankjønn, årsgammelt; et lam eller et kje kan dere ta.
OTB
Deres lam skal være et feilfritt hannlam, ett år gammelt; dere kan ta det fra sauene eller fra geitene.
B1930
Det skal være et lam uten lyte, av hankjønn, årsgammelt; et lam eller et kje kan I ta.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Hebrews 9:13–14

    For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean,

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  • 1 Peter 1:18–19

    For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,

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  • Malachi 1:14

    “But cursed is the deceiver who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and My name is to be feared among the nations.

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  • Malachi 1:7–8

    By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You ?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.

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  • Deuteronomy 17:1

    You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep with any defect or serious flaw, for that is detestable to the LORD your God.

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  • Leviticus 23:12

    On the day you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a year-old lamb without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD,

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  • Hebrews 7:26

    Such a high priest truly befits us—One who is holy, innocent, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.

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  • Leviticus 22:18–24

    “Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the Israelites and tell them, ‘Any man of the house of Israel or any foreign resident who presents a gift for a burnt offering to the LORD, whether to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering,

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