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Deuteronomy 15:21

World English Bible

If it has any defect—is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.

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Deuteronomy 15:21 in other translations

And if it have any blemish, as if it be lame or blind, any ill blemish whatsoever, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto Jehovah thy God.

Deuteronomy 15:21 · American Standard Version

Deuteronomy 15:21 in context

  1. 19You shall dedicate all the firstborn males that are born of your herd and of your flock to Yahweh your God. You shall do no work with the firstborn of your herd, nor shear the firstborn of your flock.
  2. 20You shall eat it before Yahweh your God year by year in the place which Yahweh shall choose, you and your household.
  3. 21If it has any defect—is lame or blind, or has any defect whatever, you shall not sacrifice it to Yahweh your God.
  4. 22You shall eat it within your gates. The unclean and the clean shall eat it alike, as the gazelle and as the deer.
  5. 23Only you shall not eat its blood. You shall pour it out on the ground like water.