Also you must offer fellowship offerings and eat them there, rejoicing before the <sc>Lordsc> your God.

You may not sacrifice the Passover in just any of your villages<n id="1" /> that the <sc>Lordsc> your God is giving you,

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.

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.

There must not be a scrap of yeast within your land<n id="1" /> for seven days, nor can any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain until the next morning.<n id="2" />

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.

This shall be the priests&#8217; fair allotment<n id="1" /> from the people who offer sacrifices, whether bull or sheep &#8211; they must give to the priest the shoulder, the jowls, and the stomach.

<p class="poetry">They sacrificed to demons, not God,p> <p class="poetry">to gods they had not known;p> <p class="poetry">to new gods who had recently come along,p> <p class="poetry">gods your ancestors<n id="1" /> had not known about.p>

<p class="poetry">They will summon peoples to the mountain,p> <p class="poetry">there they will sacrifice proper<n id="1" /> sacrifices;p> <p class="poetry">for they will enjoy<n id="2" /> the abundance of the seas,p> <p class="poetry">and the hidden treasures of the shores.<n id="3" />p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">On the other hand, you may slaughter and eat meat as you please when the <sc>Lordsc> your God blesses you<n id="1" /> in all your villages.<n id="2" /> Both the ritually pure and impure may eat it, whether it is a gazelle or an ibex.

If the place he<n id="1" /> chooses to locate his name is too far for you, you may slaughter any of your herd and flock he<n id="2" /> has given you just as I have stipulated; you may eat them in your villages<n id="3" /> just as you wish.

but you must sacrifice it<n id="1" /> in the evening in<n id="2" /> the place where he<n id="3" /> chooses to locate his name, at sunset, the time of day you came out of Egypt.