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Passages on this topic · 16

• Leviticus 21:17

  “Say to Aaron, ‘None of your offspring throughout their generations who has a defect may approach to offer the bread of his God.

• Leviticus 21:18

  For whatever man he is that has a defect, he shall not draw near: a blind man, or a lame, or he who has a flat nose, or any deformity,

• Leviticus 21:19

  or a man who has an injured foot, or an injured hand,

• Leviticus 21:20

  or hunchbacked, or a dwarf, or one who has a defect in his eye, or an itching disease, or scabs, or who has damaged testicles.

• Leviticus 21:21

  No man of the offspring of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall come near to offer the offerings of Yahweh made by fire. Since he has a defect, he shall not come near to offer the bread of his God.

• Leviticus 21:22

  He shall eat the bread of his God, both of the most holy, and of the holy.

• Leviticus 21:23

  He shall not come near to the veil, nor come near to the altar, because he has a defect; that he may not profane my sanctuaries, for I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.’”

• Leviticus 22:19

  that you may be accepted, you shall offer a male without defect, of the bulls, of the sheep, or of the goats.

• Leviticus 22:20

  But whatever has a defect, that you shall not offer; for it shall not be acceptable for you.

• Leviticus 22:21

  Whoever offers a sacrifice of peace offerings to Yahweh to accomplish a vow, or for a freewill offering, of the herd or of the flock, it shall be perfect to be accepted. It shall have no defect.

• Leviticus 22:22

  Blind, injured, maimed, having a wart, festering, or having a running sore: you shall not offer these to Yahweh, nor make an offering by fire of them on the altar to Yahweh.

• Leviticus 22:23

  Either a bull or a lamb that has any deformity or lacking in his parts, that you may offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.

• Leviticus 22:24

  You must not offer to Yahweh that which has its testicles bruised, crushed, broken, or cut. You must not do this in your land.

• Leviticus 22:25

  You must not offer the bread of your God from the hand of a foreigner as any of these; because their corruption is in them. There is a defect in them. They shall not be accepted for you.’”

• Ephesians 5:27

  that he might present the assembly to himself gloriously, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without defect.

• 1 Peter 1:19

  but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ;