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Leviticus 22:23-33 Good News Bible Catholic Edition (GNBDK)

23. As a freewill offering you may offer an animal that is stunted or not perfectly formed, but it is not acceptable in fulfilment of a vow.

24. Do not offer to the Lord any animal whose testicles have been crushed, cut, bruised, or torn off. This is not permitted in your land.

25. Do not offer as a food offering any animal obtained from a foreigner. Such animals are considered defective and are not acceptable.

26-27. When a calf or a lamb or a kid is born, it must not be taken from its mother for seven days, but after that it is acceptable as a food offering.

28. Do not sacrifice a cow and its calf or a sheep and its lamb or a goat and its kid on the same day.

29. When you offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the Lord, follow the rules so that you will be accepted;

30. eat it the same day and leave none of it until the next morning.

31. The Lord said, “Obey my commands; I am the Lord.

32. Do not bring disgrace on my holy name; all the people of Israel must acknowledge me to be holy. I am the Lord and I make you holy;

33. and I brought you out of Egypt to become your God. I am the Lord.”

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