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Tim Maas
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If the Israelite owner of a first-born donkey (or ass) was unable to redeem the animal through the sacrifice of a lamb or kid, then the ass itself was to be killed as a sacrifice by the breaking of its neck (rather then through the shedding of its blood) because, despite the donkey's extensive use by the Israelites as a beast of burden, it was a ceremonially unclean animal (because it did not chew the cud, as noted in Leviticus 11:26), and therefore was not acceptable as a blood sacrifice.
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