מאוּם

“Say to Aaron, ‘For the generations to come, none of your descendants who has a physical defect may approach to offer the food of his God.

No man who has any defect may approach—no man who is blind, lame, disfigured, or deformed;

No descendant of Aaron the priest who has a defect shall approach to present the food offerings to the LORD. Since he has a defect, he is not to come near to offer the food of his God.

…but because he has a defect, he must not go near the veil or approach the altar, so as not to desecrate My sanctuaries. For I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”

You must not present anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.

When a man presents a peace offering to the LORD from the herd or flock to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, it must be without blemish or defect to be acceptable.

Neither you nor a foreigner shall present food to your God from any such animal. They will not be accepted on your behalf, because they are deformed and flawed.’”

If anyone injures his neighbor, whatever he has done must be done to him:

…fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. Just as he injured the other person, the same must be inflicted on him.

“This is the statute of the law that the LORD has commanded: Instruct the Israelites to bring you an unblemished red heifer that has no defect and has never been placed under a yoke.

But if an animal has a defect, is lame or blind, or has any serious flaw, you must not sacrifice it to the LORD your God.

You shall not sacrifice to the LORD your God an ox or a sheep with any defect or serious flaw, for that is detestable to the LORD your God.

His people have acted corruptly toward Him; the blemish on them is not that of His children, but of a perverse and crooked generation.

Now there was not a man in all Israel as handsome and highly praised as Absalom. From the sole of his foot to the top of his head, he did not have a single flaw.

…then indeed you will lift up your face without blemish; you will stand firm and unafraid.

If my steps have turned from the path, if my heart has followed my eyes, or if impurity has stuck to my hands,

He who corrects a mocker brings shame on himself; he who rebukes a wicked man taints himself.

You are altogether beautiful, my darling; in you there is no flaw.

…young men without blemish, handsome, gifted in all wisdom, knowledgeable, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king’s palace—and to teach them the language and literature of the Chaldeans.