24Ye shall not offer unto the LORD that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land.
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But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.
He that is wounded in the stones, or hath his privy member cut off, shall not enter into the congregation of the LORD.
Or crookbackt, or a dwarf, or that hath a blemish in his eye, or be scurvy, or scabbed, or hath his stones broken;
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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