And the Lord spake unto Moses At the same time, as before, in a continued discourse, the subject being of the same kind, relating to sacrifices: saying, as follows.
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Don't offer to God an animal with bruised, crushed, torn, or cut-off testicles. Don't do this in your own land
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but don't accept them from foreigners and present them as food for your God either. Because of deformities and defects they will not be acceptable."
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"When a calf or lamb or goat is born, it is to stay with its mother for seven days. After the eighth day, it is acceptable as an offering, a gift to God.
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Don't slaughter both a cow or ewe and its young on the same day.
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