If you offer an animal from the flock as a fellowship offering to the Lord, you are to offer a male or female without defect. The fellowship offering from the flock — sheep or goats — follows the same pattern as the herd offering: male or female, without defect. The extension of the fellowship offering to the flock democratizes the covenant meal: not only those wealthy enough to own cattle but those with only a small flock can participate in the shared meal that the fellowship offering creates. The fellowship that the shelem establishes between the offerer and God is available at every economic level of the covenant community.

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