19Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
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If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.
And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish.
That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 17-33)Here are four laws concerning sacrifices:— I. Whatever was offered in sacrifice to God should be without blemish, otherwise it should not be accepted. This had often been mentioned in the particular institutions of the several sorts of offerings. Now here they are told what was to be accounted a blemish which rendered a beast unfit for sacrifice: if it was blind, or lame, had a wen, or the mange (…
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