8. He shall not eat a naturally dead body or a mangled carcass, so that he becomes unclean by it; I am Yahweh.
9. “ ‘And they shall keep my obligation, and they shall not incur guilt because of it, so that they die through it, because they have profaned it; I am Yahweh who consecrates them.
10. “ ‘No stranger shall eat the votive offering; nor shall a temporary resident with a priest or a hired worker eat the votive offering.
11. But a priest, if with his money he buys a person as his possession, that one may eat it, and the descendants of his house themselves may eat his food.
12. And a priest’s daughter, when she marries a layman, she herself may not eat the votive offering.
13. But a priest’s daughter, when she becomes a widow or divorced or there is no offspring for her, and she returns to her father’s house as in her childhood, she may eat from her father’s food, but no layman may eat it.
14. And if a man eats the votive offering unintentionally, then he shall add to it a fifth of it, and he shall give the votive offering to the priest.
15. And they shall not profane the Israelites’ votive offerings that they present to Yahweh,
16. and so cause them, by their eating their votive offerings, to bear guilt requiring a guilt offering, because I am Yahweh, who consecrates them.’ ”
17. Then Yahweh spoke to Moses, saying,
18. “Speak to Aaron and to his sons and to all the Israelites, and say to them, ‘Anyone from the house of Israel or from the alien in Israel who presents his offering for any of their vows or for any of their freewill offerings that they present to Yahweh as a burnt offering,
19. it must be without defect to be acceptable for you: a male among the cattle, among the sheep, or among the goats.
20. You shall not present any animal in which is a physical defect, because it shall not be acceptable for you.
21. And if anyone brings a sacrifice of fellowship offerings for Yahweh to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering from the cattle or from the flock, it must be without defect to be acceptable; there must not be any physical defect in it.
22. The blind or the injured or the maimed or the seeping or one with a skin disorder or one with a skin eruption—these you shall not present to Yahweh, nor shall you give from them an offering made by fire on the altar for Yahweh.
23. As for an ox or sheep that is deformed or that is stunted, you may present it as a freewill offering, but for a vow it will not be accepted.