What is the context?
Firstborn male animals from herd and flock are set apart to the Lord. They may not first be used for ordinary agricultural work or shearing; the household is to eat before the Lord at His chosen place.
An animal with a serious defect must not be sacrificed, but may be eaten in the towns by ceremonially clean or unclean people. The blood prohibition remains. The passage distinguishes what is fit for sacrifice from what may serve as ordinary food.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley relates the annual eating to the recurring feasts. The instructions continue the distinction in chapter 12 between sacred offerings and local meals. A defective animal’s exclusion from sacrifice is not a statement that a disabled human being has less worth or may not approach God.
What is our position?
We don't have a position on this passage yet. When our study reaches a conclusion the text supports, it will appear here.
Where can I study this further?
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