Exodus 12:5

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 12:3-11

If one died for all then all died. Pharaoh's heart still hardened. The crowning judgment needs no intermediary; Jehovah will reveal His own right arm. Exodus 11:4 . "Who shall live when God doeth this?" He who obeying His word shelters himself beneath His shadow. See:— I. THE PREPARATION . 1 . A carefully selected victim. Exodus 11:5 , deliberately set apart four days beforehand. Pure within; innocence typified by inexperience, "the first year." Pure without, "no... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 12:3-20

The Passover Proper. The Passover may be viewed:— I. AS A COMMEMORATIVE RITE . Instituted with reference to the tenth plague, and as a means by which the first-born of the Israelites might be saved from destruction, but accompanied by ceremonies which were connected with the prospective departure of the whole nation out of Egypt, the Passover feast, as established " by an ordinance for ever," commemorated two distinct and different things. II. AS A FEAST OF ... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - Exodus 12:5

Your lamb shall be without blemish . Natural piety would teach that "the blind, the lame, and the sick" should not be selected for sacrifice ( Malachi 1:8 ). The Law afterwards expressly forbade any blemished animals—"blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed"—to be offered for any of the stated sacrifices, though they might be given as free-will offerings (Le Exodus 22:20-25 ). The absence of blemish was especially important in a victim which was to typify... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:5

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. read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Exodus 12:5

Exodus 12:5. Your lamb shall be without blemish Shall be perfect, as the Hebrew is, that is, in all its parts. This was a qualification indispensably requisite in all sacrifices: Leviticus 22:20-24. Even the heathen, in the worship of their false gods, were particular in this circumstance. A male Because the males were accounted more excellent, and their flesh better than that of females. Of the first year Under a year old, not above: for the lamb, as also a kid and calf, was fit for... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Exodus 12:1-36

The Passover (12:1-36)Until now the Israelites had escaped the judgment of the plagues without having to do anything, but now their safety depended on their carrying out God’s commands. Redemption involves faith and obedience.Each family would be delivered from judgment only by killing a sacrificial animal as substitute for it, and sprinkling the animal’s blood on the door of the house where the family lived. The sprinkled blood indicated to those outside that a substitutionary sacrifice had... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Exodus 12:5

without blemish . Even as "Christ our Passover". read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Exodus 12:4-6

"And if the household be too little for a lamb, then shall he and his neighbor next to 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. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old: ye shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats; and 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.""According to every man's eating, ye... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Exodus 12:5

Exodus 12:5. Your lamb shall be without blemish— It was an indispensable qualification in sacrifices, to be perfect, as the Hebrew has it, or without blemish. See Leviticus 20:24. This was not peculiar to the sacrifices offered to the true God. The heathens were no less careful in this respect. As the paschal lamb was a lively and expressive type of Jesus Christ, there is no doubt but the perfection of that Lamb of God was signified by this circumstance, 1Pe 1:19 while, at the same time, that... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Exodus 12:5

5. lamb . . . without blemish—The smallest deformity or defect made a lamb unfit for sacrifice—a type of Christ (Hebrews 7:26; 1 Peter 1:19). a male of the first year—Christ in the prime of life. read more

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