A Lamb Without Blemish

A Lamb Without Blemish

Sh’mot 12:5
⁵An unblemished lamb or kid, a male, within its first year shall it be for you; from the sheep or goats shall you take it.

Sh’mot 12:5 states that the lamb shall be without blemish, a year-old mail (literally a male of the first year). The first born of all animals was dedicated to HASHEM.

1. Chief Priests & Elders Mattit’yahu 21:21 – 22:14; Mark 11:27-33; Ur 20:1-8

2. Pharisees Mattit’yahu 22:16 – 22, 34 – 46; Mark 11:13-17; Ur 20:21-26

3. Sadducees Mattit’yahu 22:23 – 33; Mark 12:18-27; Ur 20:28-39

4. Scribes Mark 12:28-34

5. Pilate Mattit’yahu 27:23; Mark 15:14; Ur 23:4,13-14; Yochanan 18:33-38, 19:4

6. Herod Ur 23:8-12, 15

7. Annas Ur 3:2; Yochanan 18:13-24

8. Caiaphas Mattit’yahu 26:63-64; Mark 14:61-62; Ur 22:66-70; Yochanan 18:13-14; Yochanan 19-24

9. Judas Mattit’yahu 27:3-10

10.The Centurion Mattit’yahu 27:54; Mark 15:39; Ur 23:47

11.The Repentant Thief Ur 23:40-43

The lamb was to be of the first year. Literally the firstborn. The firstborn which opened the womb is set aside and consecrated to Eloheim.

Commandment 426
Sh’mot 13
¹HASHEM spoke to Moses, saying, ²“Sanctify to Me every firstborn, the first issue of every womb among the Children of Israel, of man and beast, is Mine.”
^11“It shall come to pass, when HASHEM will bring you to the land of the Canaanites, as He swore to you and your forefathers, and He will have given it to you; ¹²then you shall set apart every first issue of the womb to HASHEM, and of every first issue that is dropped by livestock that belong to you, the males are HASHEM's.

It has traditionally been contended that Yeshua's ministry lasted three years. We have to bear in mind that Yeshua kept the Torah to the letter. Careful reading of Yochanan's account of Yeshua's earthly life will show that His ministry lasted only one year. This assertion can be seen by the phrase "up to Jerusalem" which occurs only three times in Yochanan's account. These three journeys to Jerusalem coincide with the three annual pilgrimages required by Jewish males each year to celebrate Chag Ha'Matzah, Chag Shavu'ot and Chag Sukkot. Thus Yeshua was a "male of the first year" — of His ministry — when He was offered as the Pesach sacrifice.

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