Exodus 12:5
Your lamb must be a year-old male without any defects, and you can take it either from the sheep or the goats.
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Leviticus 1:3If your offering is a burnt offering from a herd of cattle, you must offer a male without any defects. Bring it to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting so it can be accepted before the Lord.
Leviticus 22:18“Tell Aaron, his sons and all the Israelites: If you or a foreigner living with you wants to make a gift as a burnt offering to the Lord, whether it's to fulfill a promise or as a freewill offering, this is what you are to do.
Numbers 7:39a young bull, a ram, and a one-year-old male lamb as a burnt offering,
1 Samuel 13:1Saul was thirty when he became king, and he reigned over Israel for forty-two years.
Malachi 1:14Cursed are those who cheat by vowing to bring a ram as a sacrifice and then offers an imperfect animal to the Lord. For I am a great King, says the Lord Almighty, and I am respected among the nations!
Hebrews 9:13For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a cow sprinkled on those who are ritually unclean make the body ceremonially clean,
Matthew Henry on Exodus 12:2-21
The Appointment of the Passover; the Feast of Unleavened Bread. ( b. c. 1491.) 1 And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, 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… Read the whole commentary →