Leviticus 22:19

Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish— Laws are next given to provide for the perfection of the sacrifices, as well as of the sacrificers. Upon this head, we refer to the last note of the foregoing chapter, The strangers in Israel, Leviticus 22:18 signify the proselytes of the gate, such as had embraced the Mosaic law. At your own will might be rendered more consistently with the former verse, for your acceptance, or to be accepted; as it is rendered in the 21st verse, and by several of the ancient versions. The same attention to the perfection of victims was found among the heathens: they thought that unworthy to be offered to their gods, which was not excellent and complete in its kind. "No lame animal is to be sacrificed," says the Greek scholiast on Aristophanes; "and, in general, nothing must be offered to the gods, but what is sound and perfect:" τελειον και υγιες.