John Gill's Bible Commentary Ver. 1. Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God any bullock or sheep wherein is blemish , etc.] No sacrifice of any sort, whether burnt offering, sin offering, or peace offering, was to have any blemish in it; typical of the unblemished and immaculate Lamb of God, who, being without sin, offered himself without spot to God, and so could take away the sins of others by the sacrifice of himself; (see Leviticus 22:18-25), [or] any evilfavouredness ; any sickness or disease upon it of any sort, which made it ill favoured to the sight, or disagreeable to the smell, or however unacceptable for sacrifice: for that is an abomination to the Lord thy God ; every such blemished and ill favoured sacrifice; (see Malachi 1:8,14).
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-7 - No creature which had any blemish was to be offered in sacrifice to God. We are thus called to remember the perfect, pure, and spotles sacrifice of Christ, and reminded to serve God with the best of ou abilities, time, and possession, or our pretended obedience will be hateful to him. So great a punishment as death, so remarkable a deat as stoning, must be inflicted on the Jewish idolater. Let all who in our day set up idols in their hearts, remember how God punished thi crime in Israel.
Original Hebrew לא3808 תזבח2076 ליהוה3068 אלהיך430 שׁור7794 ושׂה7716 אשׁר834 יהיה1961 בו מום3971 כל3605 דבר1697 רע7451 כי3588 תועבת8441 יהוה3068 אלהיך430 הוא׃1931
