KJV 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:
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Exodus 12:5
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take [it] out from the sheep, or from the goats:
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.
WEB 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:
ASV 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:
YLT 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.
Surrounding context — Exodus 12
2 This month [shall be] unto you the beginning of months: it [shall be] the first month of the year to you.
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.
5 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.
8 And they shall eat the flesh in that night, roast with fire, and unleavened bread; [and] with bitter [herbs] they shall eat it.
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שֶׂ֥הH7716 · sehsheepתָמִ֛יםH8549 · ta.mimunblemishedזָכָ֥רH2145 · za.kharmaleבֶּן־H1121 · benson: childשָׁנָ֖הH8141 · sha.nehyearיִהְיֶ֣הH1961 · ha.yahto beלָכֶ֑םH9036 · khemyouמִן־H4480 · minfromהַכְּבָשִׂ֥יםH3532 · ke.ve.slambוּמִן־H4480 · minfromהָעִזִּ֖יםH5795 · ezgoatתִּקָּֽחוּ׃H3947 · la.qachto take: take
Cross-references
Hebrews 9:13-14For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifieth to the purifying of the flesh:1 Peter 1:18-19Forasmuch 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;Malachi 1:14But 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.Malachi 1:7-8Ye 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.Deuteronomy 17:1Thou 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.Hebrews 7:26For such an high priest became us, [who is] holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;Leviticus 22:18-24Speak 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;Leviticus 23:12And 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.Leviticus 1:10And if his offering [be] of the flocks, [namely], of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish.Leviticus 1:3If his offering [be] a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.1 Samuel 13:1Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,
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