Exodus 12:5

The lamb shall be perfect, a male, the son of a year; it shall be to you; from the sheep or from the goats you may take it.

Targum Onkelos

In The 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:

In Context

4And if the house be smaller than the numbering (required) for the lamb, let him take himself, and his neighbour who is nearest to his house, according to the number of the souls, every man according to the mouth of his eating shall you count over the lamb.

6And you shall have it in keeping till the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole church ( kehala) of the congregation of Israel shall kill him between the suns.

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Cross References

Leviticus 1:3If his oblation be a burnt offering of the oxen, (it shall be) a male, unblemished; he shall offer him at the door of the tabernacle of ordinance; he shall offer him for acceptance before the Lord.

Leviticus 22:18Speak with Aharon, and with his sons, and with all the children of Israel, and say to them: When any man of the sons of Israel, or of the sojourners in Israel, will offer the oblation of any of their vows or any of their free-will oblations which they may offer before the Lord for a burnt sacrifice;

Numbers 7:39One young bullock, one ram, one lamb of the year for a burnt offering,

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 →

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