Exodus 12:4

Too little] According to Josephus the lower limit was fixed at ten persons. He also says that in his time (between the death of Christ and the destruction of Jerusalem) 250,000 lambs were sacrificed at the Passover and partaken of by 2,700,000 people.

5· In accordance with the principle that whatever is offered to God must be the best of its kind, the law of sacrifice required that the sacrificial animal should be a male (the superior sex) and without blemish: see intro. to Leviticus 21 and on Leviticus 22:17. So Christ 'offered Himself without spot to God' (Hebrews 9:14) as a 'lamb without blemish and without spot' (1 Peter 1:19).