Deuteronomy 15:19-23
English Standard Version
19 (A)“All the firstborn males that are born of your herd and flock you shall dedicate to the Lord your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock. 20 (B)You shall eat it, you and your household, before the Lord your God year by year at the place that the Lord will choose. 21 (C)But if it has any blemish, if it is lame or blind or has any serious blemish whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to the Lord your God. 22 You shall eat it within your towns. (D)The unclean and the clean alike may eat it, as though it were a gazelle or a deer. 23 (E)Only you shall not eat its blood; you shall pour it out on the ground like water.
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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.”
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- Deuteronomy 15:22 Lit. gates
- Deuteronomy 15:22 Or completely
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