If the household is too small for a whole animal, that person and the neighbour nearest his house are to select one based on the combined number of people; you should apportion the animal according to what each will eat.
Exodus 12:5 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised You must have an unblemished animal, a year-old male; you may take it from either the sheep or the goats. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Your lamb or kid shall be without blemish, a male of the first year; you shall take it from the sheep or the goats. [I Pet. 1:19, 20.] American Standard Version (1901) Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old: ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats: Common English Bible Your lamb should be a flawless year-old male. You may take it from the sheep or from the goats. Catholic Public Domain Version And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a one year old male. According to this rite, you shall also take a young goat. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And it shall be a lamb without blemish, a male, of one year: according to which rite also you shall take a kid. |
If the household is too small for a whole animal, that person and the neighbour nearest his house are to select one based on the combined number of people; you should apportion the animal according to what each will eat.
‘But if his offering for a burnt offering is from the flock, from sheep or goats, he is to present an unblemished male.
‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to bring an unblemished male. He will bring it to the entrance to the tent of meeting so that he may be accepted by the Lord.
On the day you present the sheaf, you are to offer a year-old male lamb without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord.
‘The deceiver is cursed who has an acceptable male in his flock and makes a vow but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,’ says the Lord of Armies, ‘and my name will be feared among the nations.
one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
‘Do not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or sheep with a defect or any serious flaw, for that is detestable to the Lord your God.
For this is the kind of high priest we need: holy, innocent, undefiled, separated from sinners, and exalted above the heavens.
Saul was thirty years old when he became king, and he reigned for forty-two years over Israel.