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New American Standard Bible (1995)

Exodus 12:5

'Your lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.

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

Contextual Overview

1 Now the LORD said to Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, 2 "This month shall be the beginning of months for you; it is to be the first month of the year to you. 3 "Speak to all the congregation of Israel, saying, 'On the tenth of this month they are each one to take a lamb for themselves, according to their fathers' households, a lamb for each household. 4 'Now if the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house are to take one according to the number of persons in them; according to what each man should eat, you are to divide the lamb. 5 'Your lamb shall be an unblemished male a year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.6 'You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month, then the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel is to kill it at twilight. 7 'Moreover, they shall take some of the blood and put it on the two doorposts and on the lintel of the houses in which they eat it. 8 'They shall eat the flesh that same night, roasted with fire, and they shall eat it with unleavened bread and bitter herbs. 9 'Do not eat any of it raw or boiled at all with water, but rather roasted with fire, both its head and its legs along with its entrails. 10 'And you shall not leave any of it over until morning, but whatever is left of it until morning, you shall burn 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
The territory of the Canaanite extended from Sidon as you go toward Gerar, as far as Gaza; as you go toward Sodom and Gomorrah and Admah and Zeboiim, as far as Lasha.
Genesis 11:31
Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, his son Abram's wife; and they went out together from Ur of the Chaldeans in order to enter the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran, and settled there.
Genesis 12:5
Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his nephew, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the persons which they had acquired in Haran, and they set out for the land of Canaan; thus they came to the land of Canaan.
Genesis 12:8
Then he proceeded from there to the mountain on the east of Bethel, and pitched his tent, with Bethel on the west and Ai on the east; and there he built an altar to the LORD and called upon the name of the LORD.
Genesis 12:9
Abram journeyed on, continuing toward the Negev.
Genesis 14:14
When Abram heard that his relative had been taken captive, he led out his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and went in pursuit as far as Dan.
Genesis 14:21
The king of Sodom said to Abram, "Give the people to me and take the goods for yourself."
Acts 7:4
"Then he left the land of the Chaldeans and settled in Haran. From there, after his father died, God had him move to this country in which you are now living.

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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