If they have any kind of blemish &#8211; lameness, blindness, or anything else<n id="1" /> &#8211; you may not offer them as a sacrifice to the <sc>Lordsc> your God.

<t /><p class="bodytext">Observe the month Abib<n id="1" /> and keep the Passover to the <sc>Lordsc> your God, for in that month<n id="2" /> he<n id="3" /> brought you out of Egypt by night.

You must sacrifice the Passover animal<n id="1" /> (from the flock or the herd) to the <sc>Lordsc> your God in the place where he<n id="2" /> chooses to locate his name.

Then you are to celebrate the Festival of Weeks<n id="1" /> before the <sc>Lordsc> your God with the voluntary offering<n id="2" /> that you will bring, in proportion to how he<n id="3" /> has blessed you.

You must not sacrifice to him<n id="1" /> a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive<n id="2" /> to the <sc>Lordsc> your God.

so that they cannot teach you all the abhorrent ways they worship<n id="1" /> their gods, causing you to sin against the <sc>Lordsc> your God.

When you make a vow to the <sc>Lordsc> your God you must not delay in fulfilling it, for otherwise he<n id="1" /> will surely<n id="2" /> hold you accountable as a sinner.<n id="3" />

Then<n id="1" /> he will elevate you above all the nations he has made and you will receive praise, fame, and honor.<n id="2" /> You will<n id="3" /> be a people holy to the <sc>Lordsc> your God, as he has said.p>

<p class="bodytext">Then Moses and the Levitical priests spoke to all Israel: &#8220;Be quiet and pay attention, Israel. Today you have become the people of the <sc>Lordsc> your God.

Secret things belong to the <sc>Lordsc> our God, but those that are revealed belong to us and our descendants<n id="1" /> forever, so that we might obey all the words of this law.p>

<p class="poetry">Is this how you repay<n id="1" /> the <sc>Lordsc>,p> <p class="poetry">you foolish, unwise people?p> <p class="poetry">Is he not your father, your creator?p> <p class="poetry">He has made you and established you.p>

Achan told Joshua, &#8220;It is true. I have sinned against the <sc>Lordsc> God of Israel in this way:<n id="1" />

Gideon built an altar for the <sc>Lordsc> there, and named it &#8220;The <sc>Lordsc> is on friendly terms with me.&#8221;<n id="1" /> To this day it is still there in Ophrah of the Abiezrites.p>

When I and all who are with me blow our trumpets, you also blow your trumpets all around the camp. Then say, &#8216;For the <sc>Lordsc> and for Gideon!&#8217;&#8221;p>

All three units blew their trumpets and broke their jars. They held the torches in their left hand and the trumpets in their right.<n id="1" /> Then they yelled, &#8220;A sword for the <sc>Lordsc> and for Gideon!&#8221;

then whoever is the first to come through<n id="1" /> the doors of my house to meet me when I return safely from fighting the Ammonites &#8211; he<n id="2" /> will belong to the <sc>Lordsc> and<n id="3" /> I will offer him up as a burnt sacrifice.&#8221;

Manoah took a young goat and a grain offering and offered them on a rock to the <sc>Lordsc>. The <sc>Lordsc>&#8217;s messenger did an amazing thing as Manoah and his wife watched.<n id="1" />

He said, &#8220;May you be rewarded<n id="1" /> by the <sc>Lordsc>, my dear!<n id="2" /> This act of devotion<n id="3" /> is greater than what you did before.<n id="4" /> For you have not sought to marry<n id="5" /> one of the young men, whether rich or poor.<n id="6" />

<p class="bodytext">These are the gold sores that the Philistines brought as a guilt offering to the <sc>Lordsc> &#8211; one for each of the following cities: Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron.

So Samuel took a nursing lamb<n id="1" /> and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the <sc>Lordsc>. Samuel cried out to the <sc>Lordsc> on Israel&#8217;s behalf, and the <sc>Lordsc> answered him.p>