The KJV says “lamb” 107 times and “lambs” 81 times, 188 in all. Most are lambs offered to God, 69 of them in Numbers alone. In Scripture the lamb is a life given for others, and the Bible gives that name to Jesus: “Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world” (John 1:29). The first time the Bible speaks of a single lamb, Isaac is asking where it is. Abraham’s son, whom the story calls…

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