Acceptable Offerings

¹⁷ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁸ “Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the people of Israel and say to them, ^(A)When any one of the house of Israel or of the sojourners in Israel presents a burnt offering as his offering, for any of their vows or freewill offerings that they offer to the Lord, ¹⁹ if it is to be accepted for you it shall be a ^(B)male without blemish, of the bulls or the sheep or the goats. ^20 (C)You shall not offer anything that has a blemish, for it will not be acceptable for you. ²¹ And when anyone ^(D)offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to the Lord ^(E)to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the herd or from the flock, to be accepted it must be perfect; there shall be no blemish in it. ²² Animals ^(F)blind or disabled or mutilated or having a discharge or ^(G)an itch or scabs you shall not offer to the Lord or give them to the Lord as a food ^(H)offering on the altar. ²³ You may present a bull or a lamb that has a part ^(I)too long or too short for a freewill offering, but for a vow offering it cannot be accepted. ²⁴ Any animal that has its testicles bruised or crushed or torn or cut you shall not offer to the Lord; you shall not do it within your land, ²⁵ neither shall you offer as ^(J)the bread of your God any such animals gotten from a foreigner. Since there is a ^(K)blemish in them, because of their mutilation, they will not be accepted for you.”

¹⁶ And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, ¹⁷ “Speak to Aaron, saying, None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a blemish may ^(A)approach to offer the bread of his God. ¹⁸ For no one who has a blemish shall draw near, a man ^(B)blind or lame, or one who has a mutilated face ^(C)or a limb too long, ¹⁹ or a man who has an injured foot or an injured hand, ²⁰ or a hunchback or a dwarf or a man with a ^(D)defect in his sight or an itching disease or scabs or ^(E)crushed testicles. ²¹ No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a blemish shall come near to ^(F)offer the Lord's food offerings; since he has a blemish, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God. ²² He may eat the bread of his God, both of ^(G)the most holy and of the ^(H)holy things, ²³ but he shall not go through the veil or approach the altar, because he has a blemish, that he may not ^(I)profane my sanctuaries,^{[a] (J)}for I am the Lord who sanctifies them.” ²⁴ So Moses spoke to Aaron and to his sons and to all the people of Israel.