“Ye 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.”
You must not offer to the Lord an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn or cut. You must not do this in your own land. The prohibition on offering animals with damaged reproductive organs — parallel to the prohibition on priests with damaged testicles (Leviticus 21:20) — communicates the completeness standard applied to the reproductive capacity. The and you must not do this in your own land prohibition against castrating animals (implied by the listing of the methods of testicular damage) extends the prohibition beyond the altar to the community's animal management.
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