Deuteronomy 17:1-3

New Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

17 You must not sacrifice to the Lord your God an ox or a sheep that has a defect, anything seriously wrong; for that is abhorrent to the Lord your God.

² If there is found among you, in one of your towns that the Lord your God is giving you, a man or woman who does what is evil in the sight of the Lord your God, and transgresses his covenant ³ by going to serve other gods and worshiping them—whether the sun or the moon or any of the host of heaven, which I have forbidden—