Exodus 12:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.”
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“Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:”
King James Version · Public Domain“Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old: ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“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 <FI>it<Fi> .”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Exodus 12:5 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Leviticus 1:3If one’s 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 1:10If, however, one’s offering is a burnt offering from the flock—from the sheep or goats—he is to present an unblemished male.
- Leviticus 22:18“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 offering,
- Leviticus 23:12On the day you wave the sheaf, you shall offer a year-old lamb without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD,
- Numbers 7:39one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;
- Deuteronomy 17:1You 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.
- 1 Samuel 13:1Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned over Israel forty-two years.
- Malachi 1:7By presenting defiled food on My altar. But you ask, ‘How have we defiled You?’ By saying that the table of the LORD is contemptible.
- Malachi 1:14“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 the nations.
- Hebrews 7:26Such a high priest truly befits us—One who is holy, innocent, undefiled, set apart from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
- Hebrews 9:13For if the blood of goats and bulls and the ashes of a heifer sprinkled on those who are ceremonially unclean sanctify them so that their bodies are clean,
- 1 Peter 1:18For you know that it was not with perishable things such as silver or gold that you were redeemed from the empty way of life you inherited from your forefathers,
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