Leviticus 22:20
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If it have a blemish you shall not offer it: neither shall it be acceptable.

Leviticus 22:25 you shall not offer bread to your God, from the hand of a stranger, nor any other thing that he would give: because they are all corrupted, and defiled. You shall not receive them.

Deuteronomy 15:21 But if it have a blemish, or be lame, or blind, or in any part disfigured or feeble, it shall not be sacrificed to the Lord thy God.

Deuteronomy 17:1 Thou shalt not sacrifice to the Lord thy God a sheep, or an ox, wherein there is blemish, or any fault: for that is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

Malachi 1:8,13,14 If you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if you offer the lame and the sick, is it not evil? offer it to thy prince, if he will be pleased with it, or if he will regard thy face, saith the Lord of hosts. . . .

Context
Worthy Offerings
19To be offered by you: it shall be a male without blemish of the beeves, or of the sheep, or of the goats. 20If it have a blemish you shall not offer it: neither shall it be acceptable.21The man that offereth a victim of peace offerings to the Lord, either paying his vows, or offering of his own accord, whether of beeves or of sheep, shall offer it without blemish, that it may be acceptable. There shall be no blemish in it.…
Cross References
Hebrews 9:14
How much more shall the blood of Christ, who by the Holy Ghost offered himself unspotted unto God, cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve the living God?

1 Peter 1:19
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb unspotted and undefiled

Leviticus 1:3
If his offering be a holocaust, and of the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish, at the door of the testimony, to make the Lord favourable to him.

Leviticus 3:1
And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offerings, and he will offer of the herd, whether male or female: he shall offer them without blemish before the Lord.

Leviticus 3:6
But if his oblation and the sacrifice of peace offering be of the flock, whether he offer male or female, they shall be without blemish.

Numbers 19:2
This is the observance of the victim, which the Lord hath ordained. Command the children of Israel, that they bring unto thee a red cow of full age, in which there is no blemish, and which hath not carried the yoke:

Numbers 29:8
And you shall offer a holocaust to the Lord for a most sweet odour, one calf of the herd, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without blemish:

Deuteronomy 15:21
But if it have a blemish, or be lame, or blind, or in any part disfigured or feeble, it shall not be sacrificed to the Lord thy God.

Deuteronomy 17:1
Thou shalt not sacrifice to the Lord thy God a sheep, or an ox, wherein there is blemish, or any fault: for that is an abomination to the Lord thy God.

Ezekiel 45:18
Thus saith the Lord God: In the first month, the first of the month, thou shalt take a calf of the herd without blemish, and thou shalt expiate the sanctuary.

Malachi 1:8
If you offer the blind for sacrifice, is it not evil? and if you offer the lame and the sick, is it not evil? offer it to thy prince, if he will be pleased with it, or if he will regard thy face, saith the Lord of hosts.

Malachi 1:14
Cursed is the deceitful man that hath in his flock a male, and making a vow offereth in sacrifice that which is feeble to the Lord: for I am a great King, saith the Lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the Gentiles.

Lexicon
You must not
לֹ֣א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

present
תַקְרִ֑יבוּ (ṯaq·rî·ḇū)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - second person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 7126: To come near, approach

anything
כֹּ֛ל (kōl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3605: The whole, all, any, every

with
אֲשֶׁר־ (’ă·šer-)
Pronoun - relative
Strong's Hebrew 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that

a defect,
מ֖וּם (mūm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3971: To stain, a blemish

because
כִּי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

it will not
לֹ֥א (lō)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's Hebrew 3808: Not, no

be
יִהְיֶ֥ה (yih·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

accepted on your behalf.
לְרָצ֖וֹן (lə·rā·ṣō·wn)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7522: Goodwill, favor, acceptance, will


Additional Translations
You must not present anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.But whatever has a blemish, that shall you not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

They shall not bring to the Lord anything that has a blemish in it, for it shall not be acceptable for you.

Nothing that hath a defect shall ye present; for it shall not be acceptable for you.

But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

But whatever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

But whatever has a blemish, that you shall not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

nothing in which is blemish do ye bring near, for it is not for a pleasing thing for you.
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