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A worshipper presents one healthy offering sheep to the priest, then attempts to substitute a second animal; the priest gently marks both animals as consecrated and keeps them together. Exactly two living animals, equal care, no good-versus-bad cruelty, slaughter, blood, branding, written tags, or visible deity.
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Leviticus 27:9-10

A vowed offering animal is not exchanged

Vows, Valuations, and Tithes · Leviticus 27

Story guide: A worshipper presents one healthy offering sheep to the priest, then attempts to substitute a second animal; the priest gently marks both animals as consecrated and keeps them together. Exactly two living animals, equal care, no good-versus-bad cruelty, slaughter, blood, branding, written tags, or visible deity.

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9And if it is an animal from which they present an offering to Yahweh, everything that one gives from it to Yahweh shall be holy.

10He shall not replace it or exchange it, good for bad or bad for good; and if he does indeed exchange one animal for another, then both it and its substitute shall be holy.

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