without blemish] Some read without spot: but that is ambiguous, for thereby may be meant, either a spot of another colour, which may be an ornament, as in the Lambes of Jacob, Genesis 30:35. or a marke of deformitie, or defect; the former is not forbidden in the Lambe or Kid to be sacrificed, but the latter: This Lambe or Kid, was a Type of Christ, who was without spot or blemish of sinne, so Saint Peter sets him forth, 1 Pet. 1. 19. a male] The word Seh in Hebrew, signifieth a Lambe or Kid, whether male or female, for it is of the Common gender, and is taken (in the generall) for the lesser sort of cattell: and it may signifie a young kid as well as a lambe, as Deuteronomy 14:4. but though the law leave it to the choice of either, use and custome made it most frequent, to furnish the Paschall supper, rather with a lambe then with a kid, and accordingly did our Saviour celebrate the Passeover. The lambe is taken of the stronger sex, and more worthy gender, because Christ (signified by it) was to be of a masculine vigour, as well as of a lambe-like meeknesse. of the first yeare] Heb. sonne of a yeare. That is, not above a yeare old, though it might be offered younger, at any time, when it was eight dayes old. Leviticus 22:27.