Exodus 12:5 “Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it fr…”

Exodus 12:5

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

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:

World English Bible

Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep or from the goats.

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:

Geneva Bible 1599

Your lambe shalbe without blemish, a male of a yeere olde: ye shall take it of the lambes, or of the kiddes.

Darby Translation

Your lamb shall be without blemish, a yearling male; ye shall take [it] from the sheep, or from the goats.

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].

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:

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Cross references

“be without”

Malachi 1:14 Deuteronomy 17:1 Hebrews 7:26 Leviticus 1:3 Leviticus 1:10 Leviticus 22:19–24

Malachi 1:14 · BSB

“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 t…

Deuteronomy 17:1 · BSB

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.

Hebrews 7:26 · BSB

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

Leviticus 1:3 · BSB

If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to present an unblemished male. He must bring it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for its acceptance before the LORD.

Leviticus 1:10 · BSB

If, however, one’s offering is a burnt offering from the flock—from the sheep or goats—he is to present an unblemished male.

Leviticus 22:19–24 · BSB

must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for it to be accepted on your behalf.

“a male of the first year”

Leviticus 23:12 1 Samuel 13:1

Leviticus 23:12 · BSB

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

1 Samuel 13:1 · BSB

Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty-two years.

Also

Leviticus 22:18–24

Leviticus 22:18–24 · BSB

“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 o…

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

4If 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.

6You 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.

Read Exodus 12