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.’ ”

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Footnotes

oLiterally “for acceptance”
pOr “among”
qOr “among”
rThe Hebrew term refers collectively to both sheep and goats (small livestock animals)
sLiterally “for acceptance”
tOr “And”
uOr “and”
vOr “and”
wOr “and”
xOr “and”
yOr “and”
zLiterally “do” or “make”
aLiterally “a son of a foreign land”