He prohibited us from putting a blemish into consecrated animals. And that is called, placing a blemish into consecrated animals. And any one who places a blemish into consecrated animals is lashed - and this is on condition that it is at the time that the Temple exists - that it be fit as a sacrifice. And the prohibition that appears about this is, "no blemish shall be on it" (Leviticus 22:21). And the language of the Sifra (Sifra, Emor, Section 7:9) is, "'No blemish shall be on it' - do not put a blemish in it." (See Parashat Emor; Mishneh Torah, Things Forbidden on the Altar 1.)