Exodus 12:5
 Exodus 12:5 
New International Version (© 2011)
The animals you choose must be year-old males without defect, and you may take them from the sheep or the goats.

King James 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:

American Standard Version
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old: ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:

Young's Literal Translation
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 it.

Exodus 12:5 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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Leviticus 1:3,10 If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish...

Leviticus 22:19-24 You shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats...

Deuteronomy 17:1 You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any bad reputation...

Malachi 1:7,8,14 You offer polluted bread on my altar; and you say, Wherein have we polluted you? In that you say...

Hebrews 7:26 For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

Hebrews 9:13,14 For if the blood of bulls and of goats, and the ashes of an heifer sprinkling the unclean, sanctifies to the purifying of the flesh...

1 Peter 1:18,19 For as much as you know that you were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold...

a male of the first year. Heb. son of a year

Leviticus 23:12 And you shall offer that day when you wave the sheaf an he lamb without blemish of the first year for a burnt offering to the LORD.

1 Samuel 13:1 Saul reigned one year; and when he had reigned two years over Israel,

Exodus 12:5 Parallel Commentaries
Animals Blemish Choose Defect First Goats Lamb Male Males Mark Perfect Sheep Unblemished Yearling Year-Old
Animals Blemish Choose Defect First Goats Lamb Male Males Mark Perfect Sheep Unblemished Yearling Year-Old
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Hebrews 9:14 How much more, then, will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself unblemished to God, cleanse our consciences from acts that lead to death, so that we may serve the living God!
1 Peter 1:19 but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or defect.
Exodus 12:4 If any household is too small for a whole lamb, they must share one with their nearest neighbor, having taken into account the number of people there are. You are to determine the amount of lamb needed in accordance with what each person will eat.
Leviticus 1:3 "'If the offering is a burnt offering from the herd, you are to offer a male without defect. You must present it at the entrance to the tent of meeting so that it will be acceptable to the LORD.
Leviticus 1:10 "'If the offering is a burnt offering from the flock, from either the sheep or the goats, you are to offer a male without defect.
Leviticus 22:18 "Speak to Aaron and his sons and to all the Israelites and say to them: 'If any of you--whether an Israelite or a foreigner residing in Israel--presents a gift for a burnt offering to the LORD, either to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering,
Leviticus 23:12 On the day you wave the sheaf, you must sacrifice as a burnt offering to the LORD a lamb a year old without defect,