Deuteronomy 17:1

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You must not sacrifice to him a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive to the LORD your God.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 15:21 : 21 If they have any kind of blemish– lameness, blindness, or anything else– you may not offer them as a sacrifice to the LORD your God.
  • Deut 23:18 : 18 You must never bring the pay of a female prostitute or the wage of a male prostitute into the temple of the LORD your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to the LORD your God.
  • Deut 24:4 : 4 her first husband who divorced her is not permitted to remarry her after she has become ritually impure, for that is offensive to the LORD. You must not bring guilt on the land which the LORD your God is giving you as an inheritance.
  • Mal 1:8 : 8 For when you offer blind animals as a sacrifice, is that not wrong? And when you offer the lame and sick, is that not wrong as well? Indeed, try offering them to your governor! Will he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
  • Mal 1:13-14 : 13 You also say,‘How tiresome it is.’ You turn up your nose at it,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“and instead bring what is stolen, lame, or sick. You bring these things for an offering! Should I accept this from you?” asks the LORD. 14 “There will be harsh condemnation for the hypocrite who has a valuable male animal in his flock but vows and sacrifices something inferior to the Lord. For I am a great king,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“and my name is awesome among the nations.”
  • Heb 9:14 : 14 how much more will the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without blemish to God, purify our consciences from dead works to worship the living God.
  • 1 Pet 1:19 : 19 but by precious blood like that of an unblemished and spotless lamb, namely Christ.
  • Gen 41:3-4 : 3 Then seven bad-looking, thin cows were coming up after them from the Nile, and they stood beside the other cows at the edge of the river. 4 The bad-looking, thin cows ate the seven fine-looking, fat cows. Then Pharaoh woke up.
  • Gen 41:19 : 19 Then seven other cows came up after them; they were scrawny, very bad-looking, and lean. I had never seen such bad-looking cows as these in all the land of Egypt!
  • Exod 12:5 : 5 Your lamb must be perfect, a male, one year old; you may take it from the sheep or from the goats.
  • Lev 22:20-25 : 20 You must not present anything that has a flaw, because it will not be acceptable for your benefit. 21 If a man presents a peace offering sacrifice to the LORD for a special votive offering or for a freewill offering from the herd or the flock, it must be flawless to be acceptable; it must have no flaw. 22 “‘You must not present to the LORD something blind, or with a broken bone, or mutilated, or with a running sore, or with a festering eruption, or with a feverish rash. You must not give any of these as a gift on the altar to the LORD. 23 As for an ox or a sheep with a limb too long or stunted, you may present it as a freewill offering, but it will not be acceptable for a votive offering. 24 You must not present to the LORD something with testicles that are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut off; you must not do this in your land. 25 Even from a foreigner you must not present the food of your God from such animals as these, for they are ruined and flawed; they will not be acceptable for your benefit.’”
  • Deut 25:16 : 16 For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent to the LORD your God.
  • Prov 6:16 : 16 There are six things that the LORD hates, even seven things that are an abomination to him:
  • Prov 11:1 : 1 The LORD abhors dishonest scales, but an accurate weight is his delight.
  • Prov 15:8 : 8 The LORD abhors the sacrifice of the wicked, but the prayer of the upright pleases him.
  • Prov 20:10 : 10 Diverse weights and diverse measures– the LORD abhors both of them.

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  • Deut 15:21
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    21If they have any kind of blemish– lameness, blindness, or anything else– you may not offer them as a sacrifice to the LORD your God.

  • Lev 22:19-26
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    85%

    19if it is to be acceptable for your benefit it must be a flawless male from the cattle, sheep, or goats.

    20You must not present anything that has a flaw, because it will not be acceptable for your benefit.

    21If a man presents a peace offering sacrifice to the LORD for a special votive offering or for a freewill offering from the herd or the flock, it must be flawless to be acceptable; it must have no flaw.

    22“‘You must not present to the LORD something blind, or with a broken bone, or mutilated, or with a running sore, or with a festering eruption, or with a feverish rash. You must not give any of these as a gift on the altar to the LORD.

    23As for an ox or a sheep with a limb too long or stunted, you may present it as a freewill offering, but it will not be acceptable for a votive offering.

    24You must not present to the LORD something with testicles that are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut off; you must not do this in your land.

    25Even from a foreigner you must not present the food of your God from such animals as these, for they are ruined and flawed; they will not be acceptable for your benefit.’”

    26The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Deut 14:3
    81%

    3You must not eat any forbidden thing.

  • Lev 1:10
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    10Animal from the Flock“‘If his offering is from the flock for a burnt offering– from the sheep or the goats– he must present a flawless male,

  • Num 28:19
    79%

    19“‘But you must offer to the LORD an offering made by fire, a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs one year old; they must all be unblemished.

  • Deut 25:16
    78%

    16For anyone who acts dishonestly in these ways is abhorrent to the LORD your God.

  • Lev 3:1
    78%

    1Peace Offering Regulations: Animal from the Herd“‘Now if his offering is a peace offering sacrifice, if he presents an offering from the herd, he must present before the LORD a flawless male or a female.

  • Lev 3:6
    78%

    6Animal from the Flock“‘If his offering for a peace offering sacrifice to the LORD is from the flock, he must present a flawless male or female.

  • Mal 1:14
    77%

    14“There will be harsh condemnation for the hypocrite who has a valuable male animal in his flock but vows and sacrifices something inferior to the Lord. For I am a great king,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies,“and my name is awesome among the nations.”

  • Mal 1:8
    77%

    8For when you offer blind animals as a sacrifice, is that not wrong? And when you offer the lame and sick, is that not wrong as well? Indeed, try offering them to your governor! Will he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.

  • Deut 7:26
    77%

    26You must not bring any abhorrent thing into your house and thereby become an object of divine wrath along with it. You must absolutely detest and abhor it, for it is an object of divine wrath.

  • Lev 27:9-11
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    77%

    9Redemption of Vowed Animals“‘If what is vowed is a kind of animal from which an offering may be presented to the LORD, anything which he gives to the LORD from this kind of animal will be holy.

    10He must not replace or exchange it, good for bad or bad for good, and if he does indeed exchange one animal for another animal, then both the original animal and its substitute will be holy.

    11If what is vowed is an unclean animal from which an offering must not be presented to the LORD, then he must stand the animal before the priest,

  • Num 29:36
    77%

    36But you must offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, one bull, one ram, seven lambs one year old, all of them without blemish,

  • Num 18:17
    77%

    17But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow or a sheep or a goat; they are holy. You must splash their blood on the altar and burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

  • Deut 17:2
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    2Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you– in one of your villages that the LORD your God is giving you– who sins before the Lord your God and breaks his covenant

  • Num 29:8
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    8But you must offer a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs one year old, all of them without blemish.

  • Num 29:2
    76%

    2You must offer a burnt offering as a sweet aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs one year old without blemish.

  • Lev 1:2-3
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    2“Speak to the Israelites and tell them,‘When someone among you presents an offering to the LORD, you must present your offering from the domesticated animals, either from the herd or from the flock.

    3Burnt Offering Regulations: Animal from the Herd“‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd he must present it as a flawless male; he must present it at the entrance of the Meeting Tent for its acceptance before the LORD.

  • Lev 17:8
    76%

    8“You are to say to them:‘Any man from the house of Israel or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst, who offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice

  • Deut 15:19
    76%

    19Giving God the Best You must set apart for the LORD your God every firstborn male born to your herds and flocks. You must not work the firstborn of your bulls or shear the firstborn of your flocks.

  • Lev 17:3
    76%

    3“Blood guilt will be accounted to any man from the house of Israel who slaughters an ox or a lamb or a goat inside the camp or outside the camp,

  • Deut 12:31
    75%

    31You must not worship the LORD your God the way they do! For everything that is abhorrent to him, everything he hates, they have done when worshiping their gods. They even burn up their sons and daughters before their gods!

  • Exod 23:19
    75%

    19The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the LORD your God.“You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

  • Exod 22:20
    75%

    20“Whoever sacrifices to a god other than the LORD alone must be utterly destroyed.

  • Deut 12:17
    75%

    17You will not be allowed to eat in your villages your tithe of grain, new wine, olive oil, the firstborn of your herd and flock, any votive offerings you have vowed, or your freewill and personal offerings.

  • Deut 12:4
    75%

    4You must not worship the LORD your God the way they worship.

  • Deut 14:21
    75%

    21You may not eat any corpse, though you may give it to the resident foreigner who is living in your villages and he may eat it, or you may sell it to a foreigner. You are a people holy to the LORD your God. Do not boil a young goat in its mother’s milk.

  • Deut 23:18
    75%

    18You must never bring the pay of a female prostitute or the wage of a male prostitute into the temple of the LORD your God in fulfillment of any vow, for both of these are abhorrent to the LORD your God.

  • Num 28:11
    75%

    11Monthly Offerings“‘On the first day of each month you must offer as a burnt offering to the LORD two young bulls, one ram, and seven unblemished lambs a year old,

  • Ezek 43:25
    75%

    25“For seven days you will provide every day a goat for a sin offering; a young bull and a ram from the flock, both without blemish, will be provided.

  • Exod 34:15
    75%

    15Be careful not to make a covenant with the inhabitants of the land, for when they prostitute themselves to their gods and sacrifice to their gods, and someone invites you, you will eat from his sacrifice;

  • Exod 34:26
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    26“The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the LORD your God.You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

  • Num 29:13
    75%

    13You must offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the LORD: thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs each one year old, all of them without blemish.

  • Deut 16:5
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    5You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of your villages that the LORD your God is giving you,

  • Lev 21:20
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    20or a hunchback, or a dwarf, or one with a spot in his eye, or a festering eruption, or a feverish rash, or a crushed testicle.

  • Lev 18:24
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    24Warning against the Abominations of the Nations“‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.

  • Deut 18:12
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    12Whoever does these things is abhorrent to the LORD and because of these detestable things the LORD your God is about to drive them out from before you.

  • Exod 29:1
    74%

    1The Consecration of Aaron and His Sons“Now this is what you are to do for them to consecrate them so that they may minister as my priests. Take a young bull and two rams without blemish;

  • Lev 18:21
    74%

    21You must not give any of your children as an offering to Molech, so that you do not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD!

  • Deut 18:9
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    9Provision for Prophetism When you enter the land the LORD your God is giving you, you must not learn the abhorrent practices of those nations.