Exodus 12:5

“Your lamb shall be without defect, a male, a year old; from the sheep or from the goats you shall take it.”
Exodus 12:5 · direct translation from the Hebrew

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Your lambשֶׂה לָכֶםshall beיִהְיֶהwithout defect,תָמִיםa male,זָכָרa year old;בֶּן שָׁנָהfromמִןthe sheepהַכְּבָשִׂיםorוּfromמִןthe goatsהָעִזִּיםyou shall take it.תִּקָּחוּ

Allusion · 1 Peter 1:19

Go to 1 Peter 1:19

Both texts speak of a lamb “without defect”: in Exodus 12:5, the Passover lamb; in 1 Peter 1:19, the lamb to which the Messiah is compared.

They share words that are rare in the original, without a quotation.

שֶׂהseH7716ἀμνοῦamnouG286“lamb, sheep or goat”
תָמִיםtamimH8549ἀμώμουamōmouG299“whole, complete, without defect”

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שֶׂה / ἀμνός

The Passover lamb must be without defect, a male, a year old.

Exodus 12:3 Isaiah 53:7

Exodus 12:5, word by word

Your lambשֶׂהse

lamb, sheep

One animal of the flock: a lamb, a sheep or a young goat.

Where else “se” appears

shall beיִהְיֶהyihye

To be: "I will be their Elohim".

Where else “yihye” appears

without defectתָמִיםtamim

without defect

Without defect, whole.

Where else “tamim” appears

a maleזָכָרzachar

male animal

An animal of the male sex, as required for certain sacrifices.

Where else “zachar” appears

a year oldבֶּןben

years old

To give someone's age, how long they have lived.

Where else “ben” appears

a year oldשָׁנָהshana

year

Each full turn of the seasons, by which time is counted.

Where else “shana” appears

the sheepכְּבָשִׂיםkevasim

lamb

Lamb: a young sheep, male (a young ram).

Where else “kevasim” appears

the goatsעִזִּיםizim

goat

The female of the goat flock, used for milk and hair.

Where else “izim” appears

you shall take itתִּקָּחוּtikachu

take

To grasp something in the hand to carry or use it.

Where else “tikachu” appears

The context

4If the household is too small for a lamb, then he and his neighbor nearest to his house shall take one according to the number of persons; you shall make your count for the lamb each according to what he eats.

5 · This verse (above)

6You shall keep it until the fourteenth day of this month, and the whole assembly of the community of Israel shall slaughter it at twilight.

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