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Exodus 12:5

Your lamb shall be without blemish, sound in body and limb, a male of the first year, literally, a son of a year, one born the previous year; ye shall take it from the sheep or from the goats; the choice at that time was immaterial.

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See also Exodus 12:5 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Exodus 12:5. _WITHOUT BLEMISH_] Having no natural imperfection, no disease, no _deficiency_ or _redundancy_ of parts. On this point the rabbins have trifled most egregiously, reckoning _fifty_...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    WITHOUT BLEMISH - This is in accordance with the general rule (margin reference): although in this case there is a special reason, since the lamb was in place of the firstborn male in each household....

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    5. REDEMPTION BY BLOOD, THE PASSOVER AND THE LAW OF THE FIRSTBORN CHAPTER 12 The Passover Instituted and Kept, the Death of the Firstborn and the Exodus _ 1. The Passover instituted and the feast of...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 11:1 TO EXODUS 12:36. 10°. DEATH OF EGYPTIAN FIRSTBORN; PASSOVER AND MAZZOTH (Exodus 11:1 E, Exodus 11:4 J,...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    EXODUS 12:1 P. RULES FOR THE PASSOVER (first set). On the history of the Passover, see pp. 102f. Most ceremonial rules are dated from Sinai or the land of Moab: so these that follow are noted in Exodu...

  • B. W. Johnson's Bible Commentary

    YOUR LAMB SHALL BE WITHOUT BLEMISH. God has always required that the offerings made to him shall be of the best. FROM THE SHEEP OR FROM THE GOATS. It was understood by the Jews that. goat was not to...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    WITHOUT BLEMISH. Even as "Christ our Passover"....

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 77 THE PASSOVER Exodus 12:3. 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 f...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    YOUR LAMB SHALL BE WITHOUT BLEMISH— It was an indispensable qualification in sacrifices, to be _perfect,_ as the Hebrew has it, or _without blemish._ See Leviticus 20:24. This was not peculiar to the...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    THE TEXT OF EXODUS TRANSLATION 12 AND JE-HO-VAH SPAKE UNTO MO-SES AND AAR-ON IN THE LAND OF E-GYPT, SAYING, (2) THIS MONTH SHALL BE UNTO YOU THE BEGINNING OF MONTHS; IT SHALL BE THE FIRST MONTH OF THE...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    _YOUR LAMB SHALL BE WITHOUT BLEMISH, A MALE OF THE FIRST YEAR: YE SHALL TAKE IT OUT FROM THE SHEEP, OR FROM THE GOATS:_ Your lamb shall be without blemish. The smallest deformity or defect made a lam...

  • Darby's translation notes (1890)

    12:5 blemish, (c-6) Elsewhere 'perfect.'...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE INSTITUTION OF THE PASSOVER. THE TENTH PLAGUE, AND THE DEPARTURE OF ISRAEL 1. In the land of Egypt] These words suggest that what follows was written independently of the foregoing narrative, and...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    EXODUS: ISRAEL BECOMES A NATION THE *ISRAELITES LEAVE EGYPT EXODUS CHAPTER S 1 TO 18 _HILDA BRIGHT AND KITTY PRIDE_ CHAPTER 12 THE *PASSOVER – VERSES 1-28 PREPARATIONS FOR THE SPECIAL MEAL – VE...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    WITHOUT BLEMISH. — Natural piety teaches that we must not “offer the blind, the lame, or the sick for sacrifice” (Malachi 1:8). We must give to (_God_ of our best. The Law emphasized this teaching, an...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    שֶׂ֥ה תָמִ֛ים זָכָ֥ר בֶּן ־שָׁנָ֖ה יִהְיֶ֣ה ל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    CHAPTER XII. _ THE PASSOVER._ Exodus 12:1. We have now reached the birthday of the great Hebrew nation, and with it the first national institution, the feast of passover, which is also the first sa...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE PASSOVER LAMB AND ITS SPRINKLED BLOOD Exodus 12:1 Henceforth, for Israel, there was to be a new beginning of the year. We should date our birthdays not from the cradle, but from the Cross. The P...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    While the subjects necessarily intermingle at this point, we turn from the contemplation of the judgments of Jehovah in dealing with Pharaoh to that of deliverance in His dealings with Israel. As thes...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    Lamb. Hebrew se, which denotes the young of either sheep or goats. (Kimchi.) He who had not a lamb, was to sacrifice a kid. (Theodoret) --- A kid. The Phase might be performed, either with a lamb or w...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Was not the spotless state of the Lamb intended as an emblem of the immaculate holiness of the Lord Jesus Christ? 1 Peter 1:19; Hebrews 7:26. And was not the precept concerning the age of the Jewish l...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    There is hardly a book of the Old Testament that stands out in more decided contrast with the book of Genesis than the one which follows it most closely. And this is the more striking, because God emp...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    5._Your lamb shall be without blemish. _We shall see elsewhere, that in all their sacrifices prescribed by the Law they were diligently to beware, lest there should be any spot or fault in them; and b...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    THE FOLLOWING COMMENTARY COVERS CHAPTER S 5 THROUGH 13. At the news of the goodness of God, the people adore Him; but the struggle against the power of evil is another matter. Satan will not let the p...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    YOUR LAMB SHALL BE WITHOUT BLEMISH,.... Without any spot or defect in it. Maimonides h reckons no less than fifty blemishes in a creature, anyone of which makes it unfit for sacrifice, see Leviticus...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take [it] out from the sheep, or from the goats: Ver. 5. _Without blemish._] Christ, that immaculate Lamb of God, was hereby typ...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Your lamb shall be without blemish Shall be perfect_, as the Hebrew is, that is, in all its parts. This was a qualification indispensably requisite in all sacrifices: Leviticus 22:20. Even the heathe...

  • KJV Original Language Details

    1 The beginning of the yeere is changed. 3 The Passeouer is instituted. 11 The Rite of the Passeouer. 15 Vnleauened bread. 29 The first borne are slaine. 31 The Israelites are driuen out of the l...

  • Lange's Commentary on the Holy Scriptures

    B. THE DIVINE ORDINANCE OF THE PASSOVER Exodus 12:1-20 1, 2And Jehovah spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month _shall be_ unto you the beginning of months; it _shall be_ t...

  • Leslie M. Grant's Commentary on the Bible

    THE PASSOVER FEAST (vs.1-28) The time finally arrives for the Lord to accomplish a work of amazing power in Egypt in the deliverance of a nation numbering over two million, from the bondage of Egypt....

  • Marginal Notes in the King James Version (1611)

    OF THE FIRST YEAR: _ Heb._ son of a year...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    1-20 The Lord makes all things new to those whom he delivers from the bondage of Satan, and takes to himself to be his people. The time when he does this is to them the beginning of a new life. God a...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    WITHOUT BLEMISH; without any deformity or distemper of body. Heb. _perfect_. Of which see LEVITICUS 22:21, &c.; DEUTERONOMY 15:21, DEUTERONOMY 17:1. And this the very light of nature taught

  • Notes on the Pentateuch by Charles Henry Mackintosh

    "And the Lord said unto Moses, Yet will I bring one plague more upon Pharaoh, and upon Egypt; afterwards he will let you go hence: when he shall let you go, he shall surely thrust you out hence altoge...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Exodus 12:5 lamb H7716 blemish H8549 male H2145 first H1121 year H8141 take H3947 (H8799) sheep H3532 goats...

  • Spurgeon's Bible Commentary

    Exodus 12:1. _And the Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you._ And for this...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Deliverance for Israel through the Passover. CHARACTERS: God, Moses, Aaron, Pharaoh. CONCLUSION: Deliverance for the believer is based entirely upon the shedding of the blood of a divinely...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Exodus 12:2. _The first month of the year._ This is called Abib, Exodus 13:4; and Nisan, Esther 3:7. It was before the seventh month, hence the earth is supposed to have been created in September; but...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    EXODUS—NOTE ON EXODUS 12:1 The people of Israel are called to act obediently so that the Lord will “pass over” them during the tenth plague. ⇐...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.— Exodus 12:3. The house of their fathers.] More exactly: “a father’s house.” The designation naturally imports “family” in the larger sense of “family of families,” the entire group f...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    FIRST INSTITUTION OF THE PASSOVER. EXPOSITION THE INSTITUTION OF THE PASSOVER AND THE REASONS FOR IT.—In the interval allowed by God, according to the precedent of former announced plagues, between t...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    The Lord spake unto Moses and Aaron in the land of Egypt, saying, This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you (Exodus 12:1-2). Now in a few wee...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    be without Leviticus 1:3 Leviticus 1:10 Leviticus 22:19 Deuteronomy 17:1...

  • Wells of Living Water Commentary

    THE BLOOD OF THE CROSS IN EXODUS Exodus 12:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS Today we will consider the Cross as it is set forth in the Book of Exodus. Of course, we cannot go into detail, but we will endeavor t...

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