Exodus 12:5
What does Exodus 12:5 mean?
A plain-English look at Exodus 12:5 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old: ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
KJV
King James Version · 1611Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old: ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Let your lamb be without a mark, a male in its first year: you may take it from among the sheep or the goats:
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862a 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> .
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one year; according to which rite also you shall take a kid.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Your lamb shall be without blemish, a yearling male; ye shall take [it] from the sheep, or from the goats.
Context
v.4and if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he and his neighbor next unto his house take one according to the number of the souls; according to every man’s eating ye shall make your count for the lamb.
v.5This passage
v.6and ye shall keep it until the fourteenth day of the same month; and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it at even.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Hebrews 7:26
For such a high priest became us, holy, guileless, undefiled, separated from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;
- Malachi 1:14
But cursed be the deceiver, who hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a blemished thing; for I am a great King, saith Jehovah of hosts, and my name is terrible among the Gentiles.
- Leviticus 1:10
And if his oblation be of the flock, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt-offering; he shall offer it a male without blemish.
- Deuteronomy 17:1
Thou shalt not sacrifice unto Jehovah thy God an ox, or a sheep, wherein is a blemish, or anything evil; for that is an abomination unto Jehovah thy God.
- Malachi 1:7
Ye offer polluted bread upon mine altar. And ye say, Wherein have we polluted thee? In that ye say, The table of Jehovah is contemptible.
- Leviticus 1:3
If his oblation be a burnt-offering of the herd, he shall offer it a male without blemish: he shall offer it at the door of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before Jehovah.
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