If you offer a lamb, you are to present it before the Lord. The specific mention of the lamb as a category within the flock offering prepares for the distinct regulations that follow. The lamb is the most common sacrificial animal throughout the Levitical system — the daily burnt offering uses two lambs, the Passover lamb is a lamb, and the lamb becomes the primary sacrificial metaphor of Scripture. John 1:29 records John the Baptist identifying Jesus as the Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world — the lamb presented before the Lord in the fellowship offering is among the many types of the one final Lamb.

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