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The Sharia of Moses in the TORA
Part 1 - The 248 Positive Commandments of the Tora
60 - OFFERING CATTLE OF A MINIMUM AGE
Although by rights one should not sacrifice any animal before it is thirty days old, it is nevertheless deemed acceptable from eight days on; and even according to the strict letter of the law the firstling, the Passover-offering and the tithe-offering of cattle may be offered as soon as they are eight days old.*
In speaking of the object of this commandment Maimonides says, “This is the reason why no animal could be brought that was not yet seven days old: it is imperfect and repulsive, like an untimely birth.”*