20 Each year you and your household are to eat it before the LORD your God in the place the LORD will choose. 21 But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God. 22 Eat it within your gates; both the ceremonially unclean and clean may eat it as they would a gazelle or a deer.
Deuteronomy 15:20–22
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Deuteronomy 12:14–16
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Deuteronomy 12:20–22
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Deuteronomy 27:6–8
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Deuteronomy 17:1–2
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