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Exodus 12:5-6
New Catholic Bible
Exodus 12:5-6
New Catholic Bible
5 Your lamb should be without blemish,[a] male, a year old. You can choose either a sheep or a goat. 6 Keep it until the fourteenth day of this month. Then the whole community of Israel shall slaughter it in the evening.
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- Exodus 12:5 The words without blemish are translated as absgue macula (spotless) in the Vulgate; hence the widely used expression “spotless Lamb” for Jesus, the Passover lamb prefigured by the Jewish practice.
