Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
⛓ Read Exodus 12 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion1
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male a year old' is the Passover-lamb specification behind 'a lamb without blemish or spot' (1:19), reinforcing the redemption/exodus matrix of the pericope. High volume on the without-blemish lamb.
High confidenceEcho1
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'Without defect and blameless' (v.22) echoes the Passover lamb requirement 'your lamb shall be without blemish.' The amomos qualifier and the presentation-before-God of an acceptable victim cohere with the paschal/sacrificial backdrop, reinforcing the blood-of-the-cross atonement just stated.
Medium confidence