You must set apart to the LORD your God every firstborn male produced by your herds and flocks. You are not to put the firstborn of your oxen to work, nor are you to shear the firstborn of your flock. Each year you and your household are to eat it before the LORD your God in the place the LORD will choose. But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God. Eat it within your gates; both the ceremonially unclean and clean may eat it as they would a gazelle or a deer. But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
You are not to present to the LORD any animal that is blind, injured, or maimed, or anything with a running sore, a festering rash, or a scab; you must not put any of these on the altar as an offering made by fire to the LORD.
Significance
Leviticus 22:22 provides a detailed list of specific blemishes that disqualify an animal from sacrifice: blind (עִוֶּרֶת, ivveret), broken (שָׁבוּר, shavur), maimed, having sores, scabs, or running sores. Deuteronomy 15:21 echoes this by singling out lameness (פִּסֵּחַ, pisseach) and blindness (עִוֵּר, ivver) as representative disqualifying defects for firstborn animals. While Leviticus 22 provides the comprehensive catalog, Deuteronomy 15 distills it to the most obvious cases and adds the practical ruling that blemished firstborn may be eaten as non-sacrificial food "within your gates." The texts work together: Leviticus provides the exhaustive standard; Deuteronomy offers the accessible summary and the practical alternative.
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