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Selected Verse: Exodus 12:5 - King James

Verse	Translation	Text
Ex 12:5	King James	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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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
lamb . . . without blemish--The smallest deformity or defect made a lamb unfit for sacrifice--a type of Christ (Heb 7:26; Pe1 1:19). a male of the first year--Christ in the prime of life.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

lamb . . . without blemish--The smallest deformity or defect made a lamb unfit for sacrifice--a type of Christ (Heb 7:26; Pe1 1:19).

a male of the first year--Christ in the prime of life.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]
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. The restriction to the first year is unique, and refers apparently to the condition of perfect innocence in the antitype, the Lamb of God.

Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834]

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. The restriction to the first year is unique, and refers apparently to the condition of perfect innocence in the antitype, the Lamb of God.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
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 blemishes that render a lamb or kid, or any animal, improper to be sacrificed: five in the ear, three in the eyelid, eight in the eye, three in the nose, six in the mouth, etc., etc. A male of the first year - That is, any age in the first year between eight days and twelve months. From the sheep, or from the goats - The שה seh means either; and either was equally proper if without blemish. The Hebrews however in general preferred the lamb to the kid.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

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 blemishes that render a lamb or kid, or any animal, improper to be sacrificed: five in the ear, three in the eyelid, eight in the eye, three in the nose, six in the mouth, etc., etc.

A male of the first year - That is, any age in the first year between eight days and twelve months.

From the sheep, or from the goats - The שה seh means either; and either was equally proper if without blemish. The Hebrews however in general preferred the lamb to the kid.

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