One who is bowlegged, or knock-kneed, or one who has a pikkah, or who is an ikkel. Who is an ikkel? Anyone who draws his feet together, and his knees do not touch each other. [One who has] a lump growing out of his thumb, [or] his heel protrudes backward, [or] his sole is wide like that of a goose, [or] his fingers lie one upon the other, or they are grown together [is unfit] —- [if it is only] until the joint, he is fit; [if it was] below the joint and he separated it, he is fit. [If] he had an additional [digit], and he amputated it: If it has a bone, he is unfit; if not, he is fit. [If he had] an additional digit on his hands and feet, six each, totaling twenty-four —- R’ Yehudah declares him fit, and the Sages declare him unfit. One [who] is ambidextrous —- Rabbi declares him unfit, and the Sages declare him fit. [If] he is black-skinned, or red-skinned, or an albino, or lanky, or a dwarf, or a deaf person, or a mental incompetent, or a drunk, or those afflicted with negaim that are adjudged tahor —- these are unfit in men, but fit in animals. Rabban Shimon ben Gamliel says: An animal that is mentally deficient is not [an offering] of choice. R’ Eliezer says: Also those with dangling flesh are unfit in man but fit in animals.

These are fit in man but unfit in animals: A father and son, a tereifah, one delivered by Caesarean section, one with whom a sin has been committed, or one that has killed a person. One who marries forbidden women is unfit, until he pronounces a vow pro-hibiting him from deriving benefit [from them]. One who contaminates himself with [the tumah of] dead bodies is unfit, until he pledges not to contaminate himself with [the tumah of] dead bodies.