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Exodus 12:5

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3 Speak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:

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.

Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:

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.

7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.

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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 bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:

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  • 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;

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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.

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  • Hebrews 7:26

    For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

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  • 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;

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