◄ Deuteronomy 15:21 ►
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Good News Translation
But if there is anything wrong with the animals, if they are crippled or blind or have any other serious defect, you must not sacrifice them to the LORD your God.

New Revised Standard Version
But if it has any defect—any serious defect, such as lameness or blindness—you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD your God;

Contemporary English Version
But if the animal is lame or blind or has something else wrong with it, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

New American Bible
But if a firstling has any defect, lameness or blindness, any such serious defect, you shall not sacrifice it to the LORD, your God,

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

Leviticus 22:20,24 If it have a blemish you shall not offer it: neither shall it be acceptable. . . .

Malachi 1:7,8 To you, O priests, that despise my name, and have said: Wherein have we despised thy name? You offer polluted bread upon my altar, and you say: Wherein have we polluted thee? In that you say: The table of the Lord is contemptible. . . .

Context
Firstborn Animals
…20In the sight of the Lord thy God shalt thou eat them every year, in the place that the Lord shall choose, thou and thy house. 21But 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.22But thou shalt eat it within the gates of thy city: the clean and the unclean shall eat them alike, as the roe and as the hart.…
Cross References
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 22:19
To be offered by you: it shall be a male without blemish of the beeves, or of the sheep, or of the goats.

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

Numbers 28:19
And you shall offer a burnt sacrifice a holocaust to the Lord, two calves of the herd, one ram, seven lambs of a year old, without blemish:

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 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
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.

Deuteronomy 15:20
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