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Nothing that hath a defect shall ye present;
for it shall not be acceptable for you.
Leviticus 22:20
But if there be a defect therein,
if it be lame, or blind,
or have any evil defect,
thou shalt not sacrifice it
to Jehovah thy God.
Deuteronomy 15:21
Thou shalt not sacrifice to Jehovah thy God an ox or sheep wherein is a defect,
or anything bad;
for it is an abomination
to Jehovah thy God.
Deuteronomy 17:1
And if ye offer
the blind for sacrifice,
is it not evil?
And if ye offer
the lame and sick,
is it not evil?
Present it now unto thy governor:
will he be pleased with thee?
or will he accept thy person?
saith Jehovah of hosts.
Malachi 1:8
And ye say:
Behold, what a weariness!
And ye have puffed at it,
saith Jehovah of hosts,
and ye bring that which was torn,
and the lame,
and the sick;
thus ye bring the oblation:
should I accept this of your hand?
saith Jehovah.
Malachi 1:13
Yea, cursed be the deceiver,
who hath in his flock a male,
and voweth and sacrificeth unto the Lord
a corrupt thing;
for I am a great King, saith Jehovah of hosts, and my name is terrible among the nations.
Malachi 1:14
For our fathers have transgressed,
and done evil
in the sight of Jehovah our God,
and have forsaken him
and turned away their faces
from the habitation of Jehovah,
and have turned their backs.
2 Chronicles 29:6
Above, saying:
Sacrifices and offerings and burnt-offerings
and sacrifices for sin
thou willedst not,
neither tookest pleasure in
(which are offered according to the law);
Hebrews 10:8
Behold, at the entry of the temple of Jehovah, between the porch and the altar,
were about five and twenty men,
with their backs
toward the temple of Jehovah
and their faces toward the east;
and they worshipped the sun
toward the east.
Ezekiel 8:16
Saying to a stock:
Thou art my father;
and to a stone:
Thou hast brought me forth;
for they have turned the back unto me,
and not the face ...
for as the number of thy cities,
are thy gods, O Judah.
Jeremiah 2:27-28
Yea, ye took up the tent of Moloch,
and the star of your god Remphan,
the forms which ye made
to do homage to them;
Acts 7:43
And they forsook
all the commandments
of Jehovah their God,
and made them molten images,
two calves,
and made an Asherah,
and worshipped
all the host of the heavens,
and served Baal;
2 Kings 17:16
And changed
the glory of the incorruptible God
into the likeness
of an image of corruptible man
and of birds and quadrupeds and reptiles.
Romans 1:23
And they caused
their sons
and their daughters
to pass through the fire,
and used divination and enchantments,
and sold themselves
to do evil in the sight of Jehovah,
to provoke him to anger.
2 Kings 17:17
Therefore Jehovah was very angry with Israel, and removed them out of his sight:
there remained but the tribe of Judah only.
2 Kings 17:18
And he caused his son
to pass through the fire,
and used magic and divination,
and appointed necromancers and soothsayers: he wrought evil beyond measure
in the sight of Jehovah,
to provoke him to anger.
2 Kings 21:6
Wherefore
coming into the world
he says:
Sacrifice and offering thou willedst not;
but thou hast prepared me a body.
Thou tookest no pleasure
in burnt-offerings and sacrifices for sin.
Then I said:
Lo, I come
(in the roll of the book it is written of me)
to do, O God, thy will.
Palms 40:6-8 - Hebrews 10:5-8
Knowing
that ye have been redeemed,
from your vain conversation
... by precious blood,
as of a lamb
without blemish and without spot,
the blood of Christ,
foreknown indeed
before the foundation of the world,
but who has been manifested
at the end of times
for your sakes,
1 Peter 1:18-21
A lamb without blemish and without spot.
1 Peter 1:18-21
He takes away the first
that he may establish the second;
Hebrews 10:9
Then he said:
Lo, I come to do thy will...
by which will
we have been sanctified
through the offering
of the body of Jesus Christ
once for all.
Hebrews 10:9-10
Behold the Lamb of God,
who takes away the sin of the world.
John 1:29