If what they vowed is an animal that is acceptable as an offering to the Lord, such an animal given to the Lord becomes holy. The vow of an acceptable animal — an animal that could be offered at the altar — is the most straightforward category: the vowed animal becomes holy and goes to the altar. The becomes holy communication is the key: the vow makes the animal sacred. What is voluntarily given to God through the vow is as fully God's as what is required by the covenant's mandatory offerings.

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