Deuteronomy 15:19-23

International Standard Version

Offering the Firstborn Male Animals

¹⁹ “Set apart for the Lord your God every firstborn male among your herd and flock. You are not to put the firstborn of your ox to work or shear the firstborn of your flock. ²⁰ Instead, in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your household are to eat them every year at the place the Lord will choose. ²¹ If it has a blemish—lameness, blindness, or any kind of defect—you must not sacrifice it to the Lord your God. ²² In your cities,^[a] both the unclean and the clean together are to eat it together,^[b] as the gazelle and the deer, ²³ but you are not to eat its blood. Pour it on the ground like water.”