I want to address the age of the passover lambs with you. There’s an article that says in a nutshell; the Elohim would not take a young nursing lamb and require it to suffer the journey to J’lem to be sacrificed. The three days journey to J’elm without the mother’s milk is too horrific. Let’s look and see if a lamb born just before Passover is ‘too young’ to offer as a firstfruit.
I want to look at the destruction in Egypt. Have you ever recognised the destruction it as a first fruits (biccur) and a firstborn (biccor) offering to Elohim? We should.
First, we need to recognise that Egypt had a broken covenant with Elohim and they were being judged accordingly.
**Gen 15:13 **And he said unto Abram, Know of a surety that thy seed shall be a stranger in a land that is not theirs, and shall serve them; and they shall afflict them four hundred years; **14 **And also that nation, whom they shall serve, will I judge: and afterward shall they come out with great substance.**15 **And thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; thou shalt be buried in a good old age.**16 **But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: **for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full.**
The Amorites were descendants of Canaan and Canaan was a granson to Noah. Elohim established His covenant with both before the flood and after the flood with Noah. Ps 78:52, Ps 105:23, Ps 105:27 and Ps 106:22 all say that Egypt was the land of Ham.
Exodus 4:23 tells that the nation of Israel was the firstborn son of Elohim, the nation of Israel descended from Shem who was the firstborn (biccor) son of Noah. The law of the redemption of the firstborn come into play in Egypt. All who were in covenant with the El of Israel were to redeem their firstborn sons. (**Ex 13**:**2 **Sanctify unto me all the firstborn, whatsoever openeth the womb among the children of Israel, both of man and of beast: it is mine.)
Exodus 4:**22 **And thou shalt say unto Pharaoh, Thus saith the LORD, Israel *is* my son, *even* my firstborn (biccor): [**23**](https://biblehub.com/exodus/4-23.htm)And I say unto thee, Let my son go, that he may serve me: and if thou refuse to let him go, behold, I will slay thy son, *even* thy firstborn (biccor).
In Exodus 9:22-25 it says all that was in the field, man (the servants of Egypt from other nations?) and beast (anything that’s not food like a donkey), herb and tree (firstfruits or biccur), were destroyed by the hail. This timing just in front of Passover and Wavesheaf. Psalms gives us a bit more detail.**
Ps 105:[32](http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-32.htm) **He gave them hail for rain, *And* flaming fire in their land. [**33](http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-33.htm) **He struck their vines (grapes, one of the 7 species) also, and their fig trees (one of the seven species), And splintered the trees (4 trees in the seven species, the acceptable firstfruits of the temple) of their territory. [**34](http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-34.htm) **He spoke, and locusts came, Young locusts without number, [**35](http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-35.htm) **And ate up all the vegetation in their land, And devoured the fruit (grains) of their ground. [**36](http://biblehub.com/psalms/105-36.htm) **He also destroyed all the firstborn in their land (man and beast), The first of all their strength.
Look at Nehemiah it reads pretty much the same as Psalms in speaking of the firstfruit (biccur) of the seven species.
**Num 10:35 **And to bring the firstfruits of our ground, and the firstfruits of all fruit of all trees, year by year, unto the house of the Lord:
Through the covenant that was given to Noah the Amorites owed Elohim the biccur and the biccor. Since the Amorite pharaoh would not let Israel His firstborn leave Elohim destroyed what had always been due to Him.
Then on Passover Elohim destroyed the firstborn (biccor) of the Pharaoh who was as a god to Egypt and all of the biccor of those Amorites that the Israelites were in bondage to along with their cattle (flocks, bekor=firstborn, firstling).
So back to the lambs.
Would Elohim accept or require a very young offering of a lamb to be acceptable as a pesach sacrifice? In my opinion, we have a very clear picture from Egypt that He would.
And it seems to me that the argument that the Elohim would not require such a terrible thing of animals would cause one to pose the question in that system of belief “What about the young and tender lambs that would have been required to exit Egypt with the nation of Israel? Were they offered? Were they forced to march out of Egypt? Did Elohim already take such young and tender lambs from the Egyptians?” Yes. If we are speaking about benevolence to animals, isn’t it kinder to offer the lamb than to stress the Nanny’s/Ewe’s milk production and the lambs/kids ability to gain size with inadequate food in an exodus march? Ewes and Nannys require an abundance of green grass when their offspring are nursing.
Isn’t the cost of sin what the picture of the passover is all about? Sin has a horrific cost. All of the nation of Israel heard the wailing of Egypt (I believe of the humans and the flocks) as the death angel passed over the Israelites.
**Ex 12:29 **And it came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that *was* in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle. [**30](https://biblehub.com/exodus/12-30.htm) **And Pharaoh rose up in the night, he, and all his servants, and all the Egyptians; and **there was a great cry in Egypt**; for *there was* not a house where *there was* not one dead.
I think it the answer about offering the young nursing lambs and kids is pretty straight forward when we consider the exodus from Egypt and what the story is really saying: Give me your firstfruits and your firstborn because the cost of sin is horrific.
And as horrific as it would be to take a ‘maybe still nursing kid or lamb’ from its mother it reminds us of the eternal separation from the Eternal One, El Shaddai, ש×× (the multi-breasted One [Shad, breast,ש×] )……being for ever separated from El Shaddai, the giver of Eternal life.
Could this be what Moses is referring in to in the book of Numbers since the Exodus was just at the time of Firstfruits and Firstborn nursing offspring? Yes, I do think it’s an additional clue.
**Num 11:12** Have I conceived all this people? have I begotten them, that thou shouldest say unto me, **Carry them in thy bosom, as a nursing father beareth the sucking child**, unto the land which thou swarest unto their fathers?
Abraham is basically saying “I’m not El Shaddai”
**Ps 78:51 **And smote all the firstborn in Egypt; the chief of their strength in the tabernacles of Ham: **52 But made his own people to go forth like sheep, and guided them in the wilderness like a flock.
**Elohim delivered the people from Egypt in the time of the nursing firstborn of the flocks. He brought them out as The Shepherd, as El Shaddai, that would feed as a nursing Father and care for them as a shepherd cares for his flock. **
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**Ex 13:14 **And it shall be when thy son asketh thee in time to come, saying, What is this? that thou shalt say unto him, By strength of hand the Lordbrought us out from Egypt, from the house of bondage: **15 And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the Lord slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the Lord all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.**Updated Mar 10, 2020, 9:07 AM
