Leviticus 3:6
Good News Translation
If a sheep or goat is used as a fellowship offering, it may be male or female, but it must be without any defects.

New Revised Standard Version
If your offering for a sacrifice of well-being to the LORD is from the flock, male or female, you shall offer one without blemish.

Contemporary English Version
Instead of a bull or a cow, you may offer any sheep or goat that has nothing wrong with it.

New American Bible
If the communion sacrifice one offers to the LORD is from the flock, be it a male or a female animal, it must be presented without blemish.

Douay-Rheims Bible
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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

a sacrifice

Galatians 4:4 But when the fulness of the time was come, God sent his Son, made of a woman, made under the law:

Ephesians 1:10 In the dispensation of the fulness of times, to re-establish all things in Christ, that are in heaven and on earth, in him.

Ephesians 2:13-22 But now in Christ Jesus, you, who some time were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of Christ. . . .

be of

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 1:2,10 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man among you that shall offer to the Lord a sacrifice of the cattle, that is, offering victims of oxen and sheep: . . .

Isaiah 60:7 All the flocks of Cedar shall be gathered together unto thee, the rams of Nabaioth shall minister to thee: they shall be offered upon my acceptable altar, and I will glorify the house of my majesty.

male

Galatians 3:28 There is neither Jew nor Greek: there is neither bond nor free: there is neither male nor female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus.

he shall

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.

Acts 4:27 For of a truth there assembled together in this city against thy holy child Jesus, whom thou hast anointed, Herod, and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles and the people of Israel,

Romans 12:1,2 I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service. . . .

Titus 2:11,12 For the grace of God our Saviour hath appeared to all men: . . .

Context
Laws for Peace Offerings
5And they shall burn them upon the altar, for a holocaust, putting fire under the wood: for an oblation of most sweet savour to the Lord. 6But if his oblation and the sacrifice of peace offering be of the flock, whether he offer male or female, they shall be without blemish.7If he offer a lamb before the Lord:…
Cross References
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 22:20
If it have a blemish you shall not offer it: neither shall it be acceptable.

Numbers 15:5
And he shall give the same measure of wine to pour out in libations for the holocaust or for the victim. For every lamb,

Leviticus 3:5
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