Leviticus 22:21

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Leviticus 22:19–23 · Berean Standard Bible

19 must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for it to be accepted on your behalf.

20 You must not present anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.

21 When a man presents a peace offering to the LORD from the herd or flock to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, it must be without blemish or defect to be acceptable.

22 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.

23 You may present as a freewill offering an ox or sheep that has a deformed or stunted limb, but it is not acceptable in fulfillment of a vow.

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Leviticus 3:1

“If one’s offering is a peace offering and he offers an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he must present it without blemish before the LORD.

Leviticus 3:6

If, however, one’s peace offering to the LORD is from the flock, he must present a male or female without blemish.

Leviticus 7:11

Now this is the law of the peace offering that one may present to the LORD:

Leviticus 7:12

If he offers it in thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.

Leviticus 7:13

Along with his peace offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of leavened bread.

Leviticus 7:14

From the cakes he must present one portion of each offering as a contribution to the LORD. It belongs to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offering.

Leviticus 7:15

The meat of the sacrifice of his peace offering of thanksgiving must be eaten on the day he offers it; none of it may be left until morning.

Leviticus 7:16

If, however, the sacrifice he offers is a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, but the remainder may be eaten on the next day.

Leviticus 7:17

But any meat of the sacrifice remaining until the third day must be burned up.

Leviticus 7:18

If any of the meat from his peace offering is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who presented it; it shall be an abomination, and the one who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.

Leviticus 7:19

Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. As for any other meat, anyone who is ceremonially clean may eat it.

Leviticus 7:20

But if anyone who is unclean eats meat from the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 7:21

If one touches anything unclean, whether human uncleanness, an unclean animal, or any unclean, detestable thing, and then eats any of the meat of the peace offering that belongs to the LORD, that person must be cut off from his people.”

Leviticus 7:22

Then the LORD said to Moses,

Leviticus 7:23

“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘You are not to eat any of the fat of an ox, a sheep, or a goat.

Leviticus 7:24

The fat of an animal found dead or mauled by wild beasts may be used for any other purpose, but you must not eat it.

Leviticus 7:25

If anyone eats the fat of an animal from which an offering made by fire may be presented to the LORD, the one who eats it must be cut off from his people.

Leviticus 7:26

You must not eat the blood of any bird or animal in any of your dwellings.

Leviticus 7:27

If anyone eats blood, that person must be cut off from his people.’”

Leviticus 7:28

Then the LORD said to Moses,

Leviticus 7:29

“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘Anyone who presents a peace offering to the LORD must bring it as his sacrifice to the LORD.

Leviticus 7:30

With his own hands he is to bring the offerings made by fire to the LORD; he shall bring the fat, together with the breast, and wave the breast as a wave offering before the LORD.

Leviticus 7:31

The priest is to burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons.

Leviticus 7:32

And you are to give the right thigh to the priest as a contribution from your peace offering.

Leviticus 7:33

The son of Aaron who presents the blood and fat of the peace offering shall have the right thigh as a portion.

Leviticus 7:34

I have taken from the sons of Israel the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution of their peace offerings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons as a permanent portion from the sons of Israel.’”

Leviticus 7:35

This is the portion of the offerings made by fire to the LORD for Aaron and his sons since the day they were presented to serve the LORD as priests.

Leviticus 7:36

On the day they were anointed, the LORD commanded that this be given them by the sons of Israel. It is a permanent portion for the generations to come.

Leviticus 7:37

This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, and the peace offering,

Leviticus 7:38

which the LORD gave Moses on Mount Sinai on the day He commanded the Israelites to present their offerings to the LORD in the Wilderness of Sinai.

Genesis 28:20

Then Jacob made a vow, saying, “If God will be with me and watch over me on this journey, and if He will provide me with food to eat and clothes to wear,

Genesis 35:1

Then God said to Jacob, “Arise, go up to Bethel, and settle there. Build an altar there to the God who appeared to you when you fled from your brother Esau.”

Genesis 35:2

So Jacob told his household and all who were with him, “Get rid of the foreign gods that are among you. Purify yourselves and change your garments.

Genesis 35:3

Then let us arise and go to Bethel. I will build an altar there to God, who answered me in my day of distress. He has been with me wherever I have gone.”

Numbers 15:3

and you present an offering made by fire to the LORD from the herd or flock to produce a pleasing aroma to the LORD—either a burnt offering or a sacrifice, for a special vow or freewill offering or appointed feast—

Numbers 15:8

When you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice to fulfill a vow or as a peace offering to the LORD,

Deuteronomy 23:21

If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin.

Deuteronomy 23:22

But if you refrain from making a vow, you will not be guilty of sin.

Deuteronomy 23:23

Be careful to follow through on what comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed to the LORD your God with your own mouth.

Psalms 50:14

Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.

Proverbs 7:14

“I have made my peace offerings; today I have paid my vows.

Ecclesiastes 5:4

When you make a vow to God, do not delay in fulfilling it, because He takes no pleasure in fools. Fulfill your vow.

Ecclesiastes 5:5

It is better not to vow than to make a vow and not fulfill it.