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You shall eat it within your gates: the unclean and the clean [shall eat it] alike, as the gazelle, and as the hart.
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Practical Use for Blemished Animals
Commentators explain that a firstborn animal with a blemish, while unfit for a holy sacrifice, was not to be wasted. It was to be treated as common food and eaten within one's own town, just like a gazelle or deer, which were permissible for food but not for sacrifice.
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Deuteronomy
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18th Century
Presbyterian
Compare to Exodus 13:11 and following. The directions of the preceding legislation (see Numbers 18:15 and following) are here assumed, with the inj…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
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Here is instruction on what to do with the firstlings. We are not now limited as the Israelites were; we make no difference between a first calf, o…