'Nor from a foreigner's hand shall you offer any of these as the bread of your God, because their corruption [is] in them, [and] defects [are] in them. They shall not be accepted on your behalf.' "

"Speak to the children of Israel, saying: 'If a woman has conceived, and borne a male child, then she shall be unclean seven days; as in the days of her customary impurity she shall be unclean.

'And on the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.

' When you come into the land, and have planted all kinds of trees for food, then you shall count their fruit as uncircumcised. Three years it shall be as uncircumcised to you. [It] shall not be eaten.

'But in the fourth year all its fruit shall be holy, a praise to the LORD.

"Likewise you shall do with your oxen [and] your sheep. It shall be with its mother seven days; on the eighth day you shall give it to Me.