“But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.”
Do not bring anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf. The negative statement of the acceptability principle: the defective animal will not be accepted. The purpose of the without-defect requirement is not ritual formalism but the reality of divine acceptance. God does not accept defective offerings. Malachi 1:8 records God's rebuke of priests who offer blind, crippled, and diseased animals: when you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is that not wrong? The prophet's rebuke is the prophetic application of the Levitical requirement.
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