Malachi condemns blind, lame, and sick sacrificial animals in direct continuity with Leviticus 22’s rule that offerings presented to the LORD must be without disqualifying blemish.

Leviticus 21 uses the Hebrew blemish term mum for bodily conditions that restrict a priest from altar service while preserving his priestly food rights. Leviticus 22 uses the same blemish vocabulary for sacrificial animals that may not be offered. The shared terminology links priestly and sacrificial wholeness requirements without implying that affected priests are morally defective or less valuable persons.

Hebrews 9:14 says Christ offered himself to God “without spot,” drawing on sacrificial wholeness language familiar from Torah’s rules for acceptable animals, including Leviticus 22. The connection is strong Christological development of the unblemished-offering theme, though Hebrews does not quote Leviticus 22 by name and the phrase also carries moral significance in relation to Christ.

First Peter describes Christ as a lamb “without blemish and without spot,” language that strongly belongs to the Torah’s sacrificial acceptability world, including Leviticus 22’s rejection of blemished offerings. The Christological connection is strong, though Peter does not identify Leviticus 22 as the sole source for the phrase.