What was done with animals WITH defects?
score:3
What is an animal with a defect?
According to Deuteronomy 15:21 (NIV) lameness or blindness would be considered a defect. In my personal experience around cattle not having both testicles is a defect. So to protect the quality of your herd you wouldn't want to breed that animal back into the herd. It would however be o.k. for consumption. Even though I don't have anything to reference this too an illness and a defect would be two different things. Obviously you wouldn't want to eat a sick or ill animal.
What would they do with these animals with defects, and could they eat them?
According to Deuteronomy 15:22-23 (NIV) You are to eat it (the animals with the defect) in your own towns. Both the ceremonially unclean and the clean may eat it, as if it were a gazelle or a deer. 23 But you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
So just because it wasn't acceptable for sacrifice doesn't mean the animals with defects were wasted or destroyed. Waste not want not!
Upvote:4
I think Malachi offers a little more insight into this:
When you offer blind animals in sacrifice, is that not evil? And when you offer those that are lame or sick, is that not evil? Present that to your governor; will he accept you or show you favor? says the LORD of hosts. - Malachi 1:8 ESV
These are animals that would not be eaten or bred due to illness or other problems. The idea is that it's not really a sacrifice if it has little value to begin with.
More post
- 📝 How do Protestants interpret Matthew 16:13–20?
- 📝 What, historically, was the stance of the Catholic Church about the duty to obey non-Christian governments?
- 📝 What is "new" in the New Perspective on Paul?
- 📝 Does a Christian who commits sins against Christian doctrine and commandments still remain Christian?
- 📝 What is so special about sitting at God's "right hand"?
- 📝 What is the biblical basis for saying that Middle East Region will not have peace?
- 📝 Who symbolizes Christ in J. R. R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings"?
- 📝 How do Catholics and Eastern Orthodox justify their clergy praying with those big hats on their heads?
- 📝 Who shall not taste of death? Matthew 16:28, Mark 9:1, Luke 9:27
- 📝 Can Christians use the Ring of Solomon?
- 📝 If multiple languages cause confusion and scattering, why speak in many 'tongues'?
- 📝 Did Pelagius believe in "faith alone"?
- 📝 Do Mormons actually believe in any sort of supreme being/ultimate reality/"Absolute"?
- 📝 According to the YEC view, did the animals eat the forbidden fruit?
- 📝 How do proponents of Perseverance of the Saints have confidence in their salvation?
- 📝 What does the Bible say about people with mental illness?
- 📝 What is the biblical argument for eating meat, or that vegetarianism is possible but not commanded?
- 📝 When did people start to deny Jesus as a historical person?
- 📝 What analogies have been suggested for kenosis?
- 📝 What are the major differences between the NKJV and the ESV translations?
- 📝 Paul's analysis of Abraham's "offspring(s)" in Galatians 3
- 📝 Can a non-baptized Jehovah's Witness publisher date a non-believer?
- 📝 What is the Christian take on reincarnation?
- 📝 Why doesn’t the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod have bishops?
- 📝 Was there an official Church of England response to the 2002 survey of clergy beliefs?
- 📝 Is baptism by water necessary for salvation?
- 📝 What was the Early Church's view on slavery?
- 📝 What is the Biblical support for praying for the dead?
- 📝 Looking for source for quote from Christian author
- 📝 What are the general categories of benefits of being part of a denomination?
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 What was done with animals WITH defects?
- 📝 What crime was committed by the "thieves" crucified with Jesus?
- 📝 What is significant about the swaddling clothes with which Jesus was wrapped as a baby?
- 📝 Historically what percentage of the Catholic Church's liturgical function was done in Latin?
- 📝 What is the creationist view on animals equipped with lethal weapons?
- 📝 Where Catholicism lost influence and property during the reformation, what did Luther think should be done with the acquired assets?
- 📝 What should the man of God in 1 Kings 13 have done when faced with the old prophet's lie?
- 📝 What meaning would Philippians 2:9 have if Jesus is equal with God? Was Jesus praised for not seizing equality with himself?
- 📝 What was the early Church Fathers' understanding of the "baptism with Holy Spirit and fire"?
- 📝 What Christian denominations profess that they remain with 'that which was from the beginning' rather than 'progress' to a 'further revelation'?
- 📝 What was the weight of Noah's ark before and after the animals were loaded on to it?
- 📝 What was St. Robert Bellarmine teaching on human cooperation with grace?
- 📝 Take away the gospels, and how do we know that Jesus did what he was recorded to have done in terms of miracles?
- 📝 What do Christians mean by a "personal relationship" with Jesus?
- 📝 What evidence is there that Jesus was a carpenter?
- 📝 What was it about the death of Jesus that allows God to forgive us?
- 📝 What is the history of the concept of a "personal relationship with Jesus"?
- 📝 Why was God so upset with Moses for striking the rock the second time in the desert?
- 📝 What denominations, besides JWs, hold that the Star of Bethlehem was sent by Satan?
- 📝 What color was Augustine's skin?
- 📝 What were Martin Luther's main disagreements with the Catholic Church?
- 📝 What are the Biblical and theological problems with theistic evolution?
- 📝 At what time of day was Jesus crucified?
- 📝 What does it mean that Jesus was the "second Adam"?
- 📝 What was the difference between the Pharisees and Sadducees?
- 📝 What is the support for saying Jesus believed Genesis was a literal account of creation?
- 📝 What process was used to translate the KJV?
- 📝 Wave offering; What exactly was the point?
- 📝 What of Augustine's ecclesiology was rejected in the Reformation?
- 📝 What was Isaac Newton's view of the Trinity?