Deuteronomy 15:21

If it has any defect—is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

World English Bible

In The King James Version

And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the LORD thy God.

In Context

20You shall eat it before the LORD your God year by year in the place which the LORD shall choose, you and your household.

22You shall eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle and as the deer.

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Cross References

Leviticus 22:19that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without defect, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.

Leviticus 22:23Either a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a free will offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.

Malachi 1:7You offer polluted bread on my altar. You say, ‘How have we polluted you?’ In that you say, ‘The LORD’s table is contemptible.’

Matthew Henry on Deuteronomy 15:20-23

19 All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the Lord thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep. 20 Thou shalt eat it before the Lord thy God year by year in the place which the Lord shall choose, thou and thy household. 21 And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the Lord thy God. 22 Thou shalt eat it within thy gates: the… Read the whole commentary →

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