The Lamb

Illustration of The Lamb

The lamb is the great sacrificial animal of Scripture, offered at Passover and in the daily sacrifices, its blood marking God's people for deliverance. Isaiah pictured the suffering servant led like a lamb to the slaughter, and John the Baptist hailed Jesus as 'the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.' In Revelation the slain Lamb is worshipped as worthy - innocence and sacrifice made the very center of redemption.

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Strongest connections in Scripture
Exodus 12

Key Passages

The Passover Lamb

Exodus 12:3-7

Each household takes a lamb without blemish, its blood on the doorposts sparing them from the destroyer.

S3peak ye unto all the congregation of Israel, saying, In the tenth day of this month they shall take to them every man a lamb, according to the house of their fathers, a lamb for an house:

4 And if the household be too little for the lamb, let him and his neighbour next unto his house take it according to the number of the souls; every man according to his eating shall make your count for the lamb. 5 Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats: 6 And ye shall keep it up until the fourteenth day of the same month: and the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel shall kill it in the evening. 7 And they shall take of the blood, and strike it on the two side posts and on the upper door post of the houses, wherein they shall eat it.

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Characters

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Did You Know?

1

The lamb is the Bible's central sacrificial animal, from Abel's offering to the cross.

2

At Passover, its blood on the doorposts spared Israel's firstborn.

3

John the Baptist called Jesus 'the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world.'

4

Revelation calls Jesus 'the Lamb' more than any other title.