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Lexicon :: Strong's H7651 - šeḇaʿ

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שֶׁבַע
Transliteration
šeḇaʿ
Pronunciation
sheh'-bah
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Part of Speech
masculine/feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2318

Strong’s Definitions

שֶׁבַע shebaʻ, sheh'-bah; or (masculine) (שִׁבְעָה shibʻâh); from H7650; a primitive cardinal number; seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number:—(+ by) seven(-fold),-s, (-teen, -teenth), -th, times). Compare H7658.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 394x

The KJV translates Strong's H7651 in the following manner: seven (355x), seventh (13x), seventeen (with H6240) (8x), seven times (6x), seventeenth (with H6240) (6x), seventeenth (5x), sevens (with H7657) (2x), seven men (1x), sevenfold (1x), seventeen (with H6235) (1x), seventeen (with H7657) (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 394x
The KJV translates Strong's H7651 in the following manner: seven (355x), seventh (13x), seventeen (with H6240) (8x), seven times (6x), seventeenth (with H6240) (6x), seventeenth (5x), sevens (with H7657) (2x), seven men (1x), sevenfold (1x), seventeen (with H6235) (1x), seventeen (with H7657) (1x).

  1. seven (cardinal number)

    1. as ordinal number

    2. in combination - 17, 700 etc

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שֶׁבַע shebaʻ, sheh'-bah; or (masculine) (שִׁבְעָה shibʻâh); from H7650; a primitive cardinal number; seven (as the sacred full one); also (adverbially) seven times; by implication, a week; by extension, an indefinite number:—(+ by) seven(-fold),-s, (-teen, -teenth), -th, times). Compare H7658.
STRONGS H7651: Abbreviations
I. שֶׁבַע, שִׁבְעָה 394 noun masculine and feminine seven (Late Hebrew id., MI16 שבעת Assyrian sibi, sibittu (DlGr. § 65, 6; s = שׁ), Arabic bdb098709, bdb098710, Sabean סבע HomChr 47, 124, Ethiopic bdb098711bdb098712Phoenician (Punic) שבע Nabataean שבע שבעה, Palmyrene שבעא שבעה; Aramaic שְׁבַע, שִׁבְעָא, bdb098713, bdb098714; on etymology compare LagBN 37 f.); — masculine (with noun feminine) absolute שֶׁבַע Genesis 41:2 + 115 times; construct שְׁבַע Genesis 5:26 + 47 times, especially P (15 times) and Chronicles (20 times), וּשֲׁבַע 1 Kings 14:21 feminine (with noun masculine) absolute שִׁבְעָה Genesis 4:24 + 100 times; constructשִׁבְעַת Genesis 7:10 + 120 times; suffix שְׁבַעְתָּם 2 Samuel 21:9 Qr (so Vrss and modern; see Dr; > Kt שִׁבְעָתַיִם; — seven:
1. without other number:
a. שֶׁבַע, before feminine plural noun Genesis 21:28 (J), Judges 16:13; Isaiah 4:1 + 80 times, especially שָׁנִים שׁ׳ Genesis 29:18 (E) + 32 times (but read שׁלוֺשׁ for שֶׁבַע 2 Samuel 24:13a, compare 2 Samuel 24:13b, 2 Samuel 24:13c, also Greek Version of the LXX and || 1 Chronicles 21:12; so Th We Dr Bu HPS Now), פְּעָמִים שׁ׳ Genesis 33:3 (J), Leviticus 4:6 (P) + 17 times; בָּאַמָּה רָחְבָּהּ שׁ׳ 1 Kings 6:6; after noun Ezekiel 40:20, 26; noun omitted Job 5:19; Proverbs 6:16, + (= מְּעָמִים שׁ׳) Leviticus 26:18, 21, 24, 28 (H), Psalm 119:64; Proverbs 24:16.
b. שִׁבְעָה before masculine plural noun Numbers 23:1 (3 times in verse) (E) + 40 times + [H7658 Job 42:13 (read שׁ׳ for שִׁבְעָ֫נָה Ges§ 97c and most)]; + (distributive) וְשׁ׳ שׁ׳ Zechariah 4:2; after noun Genesis 7:4 (J), Exodus 25:37 (P) + 12 times (P Chronicles Daniel Proverbs); noun omitted 1 Samuel 2:5 + 9 times, including שׁ׳ as ordinal, see below; but read שְׂבָכָה for שִׁבְעָה 1 Kings 7:17 (twice in verse) Greek Version of the LXX Th Kmp Klo Benz Kit Bur; also שׁ׳ שׁ׳ distributive = 7 each Genesis 7:2, 3(J); as predicate Genesis 46:25 (P),
c. שִׁבְעַת, before plural noun Numbers 23:4 (E), Numbers 8:2 (P), Ezekiel 45:23 (twice in verse); Job 2:13 (twice in verse) + 97 times, incl יָמִים שׁ׳ Genesis 8:10 (J), + 88 times + Ezekiel 45:21 (read שִׁבְעַת for שְׁבֻעוֺת Vrss and modern),
d. = ordinal, שְׁנַת (הַ)שֶּׁבַע Deuteronomy 15:2; 2 Kings 12:2 + 3 times, בְּשִׁבְעָה לַחֹדֶשׁ Ezekiel 30:20, compare Ezekiel 45:20; לְשִׁבְעַת הַיָּמִים Genesis 7:10 (J), 1 Chronicles 9:25.
2.
†a. שְׁבַע עֶשְׂרֵה שָׁנָה 17 years Genesis 37:2 + 3 times + 1 Kings 14:21, also as ordinal עֶשׂ׳ בִּשְׁנַת שׁ׳ 1 Kings 22:52, שָׁנָה עֶשׂ׳ בִּשְׁנַת שׁ׳ 2 Kings 16:1.
†b. שִׁבְעָה עָשָׂר (that is הַגּוֺרָל lot) 1 Chronicles 24:15; 1 Chronicles 25:24 (compare also, + other number, 1 Chronicles 7:11; Ezra 2:30; Nehemiah 7:42), + יוֺם 17th day Genesis 7:11; Genesis 8:4; unusual is שְׁקָלִים וַעֲשָׂרָה הַכֶּסֶף שׁ׳ Jeremiah 32:9 7shekels and 10 the silver
3. שְׁבַע מֵאוֺת = 700 Judges 8:26 + 39 times (but Nehemiah 7:68 omitted by Masora Baer Gi which see).
4. שִׁבְעָה אֶלֶף = 7000 1 Kings 20:30 + 2 times; שִׁבְעַת אֲלָפִים = id. 1 Kings 20:15 + 15 times; 57,000 is 7x 50x 1000 Numbers 1:31; Numbers 2:8, 31.
5. שׁ׳ + other number:
a. שׁ׳ follows + 18 times:
(1) singular noun after שׁ׳ Judges 8:14; also (= ordinal number) Ezekiel 29:17 + 2 times, שְׁנַת שָׁנָה שְׁלשִׁים וָשׁ׳ 2 Kings 13:10, compare 2 Kings 15:1;
(2) plural noun before other number Ezra 8:35; Nehemiah 7:72;
(3) singular noun construct precedes בִּשְׁנַת עֶשְׂרִים וָשׁ׳ 1 Kings 16:10, 15 (ordinal);
(4) noun after each number Genesis 23:1; Genesis 25:17 (both P), etc.
b. שׁ׳ precedes + 10 times (P and Esther):
(1) noun singular after other number Genesis 8:14; Exodus 6:16, 20 + 3 times Esther;
(2) noun repeated Genesis 5:7; Genesis 11:21; Genesis 47:28, compare Genesis 5:25, 31.
c. 1000+17 Ezra 2:39 = Nehemiah 7:42 — שׁ׳ often with sacred significance: Genesis 21:28ff. (J), Exodus 37:23; Leviticus 4:6, 17; Leviticus 8:11; Leviticus 14:27 + (P); as round number Genesis 4:24 (song in J), Genesis 29:18ff; Genesis 31:23; Genesis 41:2ff (all E), etc.; on bowing + 7 times Genesis 33:3 (J; in great humility), compare WklTelAm. nos. 143, 230, 246 NeMar, 11 f.; all these probably originating with week of seven days; compare especially KöHast. DB NUMBER, 562 f., 565.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H7655.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

4:24; 4:24; 5:7; 5:25; 5:26; 5:31; 7:2; 7:3; 7:4; 7:10; 7:10; 7:11; 8:4; 8:10; 8:14; 11:21; 21:28; 21:28; 23:1; 25:17; 29:18; 29:18; 31:23; 33:3; 33:3; 37:2; 41:2; 41:2; 46:25; 47:28

Exodus

6:16; 6:20; 25:37; 37:23

Leviticus

4:6; 4:6; 4:17; 8:11; 14:27; 26:18; 26:21; 26:24; 26:28

Numbers

1:31; 2:8; 2:31; 8:2; 23:1; 23:4

Deuteronomy

15:2

Judges

8:14; 8:26; 16:13

1 Samuel

2:5

2 Samuel

21:9; 24:13; 24:13; 24:13

1 Kings

6:6; 7:17; 14:21; 14:21; 16:10; 16:15; 20:15; 20:30; 22:52

2 Kings

12:2; 13:10; 15:1; 16:1

1 Chronicles

7:11; 9:25; 21:12; 24:15; 25:24

Ezra

2:30; 2:39; 8:35

Nehemiah

7:42; 7:42; 7:68; 7:72

Job

2:13; 5:19

Psalms

119:64

Proverbs

6:16; 24:16

Isaiah

4:1

Jeremiah

32:9

Ezekiel

29:17; 30:20; 40:20; 40:26; 45:20; 45:21; 45:23

Zechariah

4:2

H7651

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Strong's Number H7651 matches the Hebrew שֶׁבַע (šeḇaʿ),
which occurs 394 times in 344 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 7 (Lev 23:15–Num 29:36)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:15 -

‘You shall also count for yourselves from the day after the sabbath, from the day when you brought in the sheaf of the wave offering; there shall be seven H7651 complete sabbaths.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:18 - ‘Along with the bread you shall bring near seven H7651 one year old male lambs without blemish and a bull from the herd and two rams; they shall be a burnt offering to Yahweh, with their grain offering and their drink offerings, an offering by fire of a soothing aroma to Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:34 - “Speak to the sons of Israel, saying, ‘On the fifteenth of this seventh month is the Feast of Booths for seven H7651 days to Yahweh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:36 - ‘For seven H7651 days you shall bring an offering by fire near to Yahweh. On the eighth day you shall have a holy convocation and bring an offering by fire near to Yahweh; it is a solemn assembly. You shall do no laborious work.

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‘On exactly the fifteenth day of the seventh month, when you have gathered in the produce of the land, you shall celebrate the feast of Yahweh for seven H7651 days, with a [fn]rest on the first day and a [fn]rest on the eighth day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:40 - ‘And on the first day you shall take for yourselves the [fn]foliage of beautiful trees, palm branches and boughs of leafy trees and willows of the brook, and you shall be glad before Yahweh your God for seven H7651 days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:41

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:41 - ‘You shall thus celebrate it as a feast to Yahweh for seven H7651 days in the year. It shall be a perpetual statute throughout your generations; you shall celebrate it in the seventh month.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 23:42

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 23:42 - ‘You shall [fn]live in booths for seven H7651 days; all the native-born in Israel shall [fn]live in booths,

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‘You are also to count off seven H7651 sabbaths of years for yourself, seven H7651 times seven H7651 years, so that you have the time of the seven H7651 sabbaths of years, namely, forty-nine years.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:18 - ‘If also after these things you do not obey Me, then I will discipline you seven H7651 times H7651 more for your sins.

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‘If then, you walk in hostility against Me and are unwilling to obey Me, I will increase the plague on you seven H7651 times H7651 according to your sins.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:24 - then I will walk in hostility against you; and I, even I, will strike you seven H7651 times H7651 for your sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lev 26:28

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 26:28 - then I will walk in wrathful hostility against you, and I, even I, will discipline you seven H7651 times H7651 for your sins.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:31 - their numbered men of the tribe of Zebulun were 57,400 H7651.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 1:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:39 - their numbered men of the tribe of Dan were 62,700 H7651.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:8 - and his army, even his numbered men, 57,400 H7651.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:26

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:26 - and his army, even their numbered men, 62,700 H7651.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 2:31

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 2:31 - “The total of the numbered men of the camp of Dan was 157,600 H7651. They shall set out last by their standards.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:22 - Their numbered men, in the numbering of every male from a month old and upward, even their numbered men were 7,500 H7651.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 4:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 4:36 - Their numbered men by their families were 2,750 H7651.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 8:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 8:2 - “Speak to Aaron and say to him, ‘When you [fn]mount the lamps, the seven H7651 lamps will give light in the front of the lampstand.’”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 12:14

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:14 - But Yahweh said to Moses, “If her father had but spit in her face, would she not bear her dishonor for seven H7651 days? Let her be shut up for seven H7651 days outside the camp, and afterward she may be received again.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 12:15

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 12:15 - So Miriam was shut up outside the camp for seven H7651 days, and the people did not set out until Miriam was received again.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 13:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 13:22 - And they had gone up into the Negev and [fn]came to Hebron where Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the [fn]descendants of Anak were. (Now Hebron was built seven H7651 years before Zoan in Egypt.)

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 16:49

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 16:49 - But those who died by the plague were 14,700 H7651, besides those who died on account of Korah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 19:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:4 - ‘Next Eleazar the priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and sprinkle some of its blood toward the front of the tent of meeting seven H7651 times.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:11 -

‘The one who touches the corpse of any [fn]person shall be unclean for seven H7651 days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:14 -

‘This is the law when a man dies in a tent: everyone who comes into the tent and everyone who is in the tent shall be unclean for seven H7651 days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 19:16 - ‘Also, anyone who in the open field touches one who has been slain with a sword or who has died naturally, or a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean for seven H7651 days.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:1 -

Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven H7651 altars for me here, and prepare seven H7651 bulls and seven H7651 rams for me here.”

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Now God met Balaam, and he said to Him, “I have set up the seven H7651 altars, and I have offered up a bull and a ram on each altar.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:14 - So he took him to the field of Zophim, to the top of Pisgah, and built seven H7651 altars and offered a bull and a ram on each altar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 23:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 23:29 - And Balaam said to Balak, “Build seven H7651 altars for me here and prepare seven H7651 bulls and seven H7651 rams for me here.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:7 -

These are the families of the Reubenites, and those who were numbered of them were 43,730 H7651.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:34 -

These are the families of Manasseh; and those who were numbered of them were 52,700 H7651.

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These are those who were numbered of the sons of Israel, 601,730 H7651.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:11 -

‘Then at the beginning of each of your months you shall bring near a burnt offering to Yahweh: two bulls from the herd and one ram, seven H7651 male lambs one year old without blemish;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:17 - ‘And on the fifteenth day of this month shall be a feast; unleavened bread shall be eaten for seven H7651 days.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 28:19

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:19 - ‘And you shall bring near an offering by fire, a burnt offering to Yahweh: two bulls from the herd and one ram and seven H7651 male lambs one year old; they shall be for you without blemish.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 28:21

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:21 - ‘A tenth of an [fn]ephah you shall offer for [fn]each of the seven H7651 lambs;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 28:24

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:24 - ‘After this manner you shall offer daily, for seven H7651 days, the food of the offering by fire, of a soothing aroma to Yahweh; it shall be offered with its drink offering in addition to the continual burnt offering.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:27 - ‘And you shall bring near a burnt offering for a soothing aroma to Yahweh: two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven H7651 male lambs one year old;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 28:29

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 28:29 - a tenth for [fn]each of the seven H7651 lambs;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:2 - ‘And you shall offer a burnt offering as a soothing aroma to Yahweh: one bull from the herd, one ram, and seven H7651 male lambs one year old without blemish;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:4

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:4 - and one-tenth for [fn]each of the seven H7651 lambs.

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:8

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:8 - ‘And you shall bring near a burnt offering to Yahweh as a soothing aroma: one bull from the herd, one ram, seven H7651 male lambs one year old, having them without blemish;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:10 - a tenth for each of the seven H7651 lambs;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:12 -

‘Then on the fifteenth day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no laborious work, and you shall celebrate a feast to Yahweh for seven H7651 days.

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‘Then on the seventh day: seven H7651 bulls, two rams, fourteen male lambs one year old without blemish;

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Unchecked Copy Box Num 29:36

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 29:36 - ‘But you shall bring near a burnt offering, an offering by fire, as a soothing aroma to Yahweh: one bull, one ram, seven H7651 male lambs one year old without blemish;

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