Malachi 1:7-8
1:7 You are offering improper sacrifices on my altar, yet you ask, ‘How have we offended you?’ By treating the table
of the
Lord as if it is of no importance!
1:8 For when you offer blind animals as a sacrifice, is that not wrong? And when you offer the lame and sick,
is that not wrong as well? Indeed, try offering them
to your governor! Will he be pleased with you
or show you favor?” asks the
Lord who rules over all.
Leviticus 22:8
22:8 He must not eat an animal that has died of natural causes
or an animal torn by beasts and thus become unclean by it. I am the
Lord.
Leviticus 22:19-23
22:19 if it is to be acceptable for your benefit
it must be a flawless male from the cattle, sheep, or goats.
22:20 You must not present anything that has a flaw,
because it will not be acceptable for your benefit.
22:21 If a man presents a peace offering sacrifice to the
Lord for a special votive offering
or for a freewill offering from the herd or the flock, it must be flawless to be acceptable;
it must have no flaw.
22:22 “‘You must not present to the Lord something blind, or with a broken bone, or mutilated, or with a running sore, or with a festering eruption, or with a feverish rash. You must not give any of these as a gift on the altar to the Lord.
22:23 As for an ox or a sheep with a limb too long or stunted, you may present it as a freewill offering, but it will not be acceptable for a votive offering.
Deuteronomy 15:21
15:21 If they have any kind of blemish – lameness, blindness, or anything else
– you may not offer them as a sacrifice to the
Lord your God.
Ezekiel 4:14
4:14 And I said, “Ah, sovereign Lord, I have never been ceremonially defiled before. I have never eaten a carcass or an animal torn by wild beasts; from my youth up, unclean meat has never entered my mouth.”
Ezekiel 44:31
44:31 The priests will not eat any bird or animal that has died a natural death or was torn to pieces by a wild animal.