Leviticus 22:17–25

Acceptable Offerings

¹⁷Thenⁱ Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁸“Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israelites,^j and say to them, ‘Anyone from the house of Israel or^k from the alien in Israel who presents his offering for any of their vows or^l for any of their freewill offerings that they present to Yahweh as a burnt offering, ¹⁹it must be without defect to be acceptable for you:^m a male among the cattle, among the sheep, orⁿ among the goats. ²⁰You shall not present any animal in which is a physical defect, because it shall not be acceptable^o for you. ²¹And if anyone brings a sacrifice of fellowship offerings for Yahweh to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from^p the cattle or from^q the flock,^r it must be without defect to be acceptable;^s there must not be any physical defect in it. ²²The blind or the injured or the maimed or the seeping or one with a skin disorder or one with a skin eruption—these you shall not present to Yahweh, nor shall you give from them an offering made by fire on the altar for Yahweh. ²³As for^t an ox or sheep that is deformed or^u that is stunted, you may present it as a freewill offering, but^v for a vow it will not be accepted. ²⁴And you shall not present anything for Yahweh with bruised or^w shattered or^x torn or^y cut-off testicles, and you shall not sacrifice^z such in your land. ²⁵And you shall not present your God’s food from any of these by the hand of a foreigner,^a because their deformity is in them; a physical defect is in them; they shall not be accepted for you.’ ”