Offerings
212 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
106 sections
- All Animal Sacrifices Must be Eight Days Old or More
- Animal Sacrifices: A Type of Christ
- Antiquity of
- Burnt
- Burnt: Accompanied by Other offerings
- Burnt: Its Purpose Was to Make an Atonement for Sin
- Burnt: Music With
- Burnt: Offered Daily, Morning and Evening
- Burnt: Ordinances Concerning
- Burnt: Skins of, Belonged to Priests
- Christ's offering of Himself
- Could not Make the offerer Perfect
- Declared to be Most Holy
- Different Kinds of Burnt
- Different Kinds of Drink
- Different Kinds of First-Fruits
- Different Kinds of Free-Will
- Different Kinds of Gifts
- Different Kinds of Heave
- Different Kinds of Incense
- Different Kinds of Jealousy
- Different Kinds of Meat
- Different Kinds of Peace
- Different Kinds of Personal, for Redemption
- Different Kinds of Sin
- Different Kinds of Thank
- Different Kinds of Tithe
- Different Kinds of Trespass
- Different Kinds of Wave
- Drink: Libations of Wine offered with the Sacrifices
- Eaten
- Figurative
- Free Will with Meat and Drink offerings
- Free Will: Must be Perfect (Whole, Complete)
- Free Will: Obligatory when Signified in a Vow
- Free Will: To be Eaten by Priests
- Heave in Certain Instances This offering Was Brought to the Tabernacle, or Temple
- Heave: Consecrated by Being Elevated by the Priest
- Heave: Consisted of the Right Thigh or Hind Quarter (R. V.)
- Heave: Given to the Priests' Families As Part of Their Benefits
- Heave: Plunder, Including Captives and Other Articles of War
- Heave: To be offered on Taking Possession of the Land of Canaan
- Heave: when offered
- Hezekiah Prepared Chambers For
- Human Sacrifices: Abraham
- Human Sacrifices: Canaanites
- Human Sacrifices: Forbidden
- Human Sacrifices: Israelites
- Human Sacrifices: Moabites
- Human Sacrifices: Offered to Baal
- Human Sacrifices: Offered to Demons
- Human Sacrifices: The Sepharvites to Idols
- Insufficiency of
- Laid up in the Temple
- Made by Strangers, to be the Same As by the Jews
- Many Offenses Under the Law, Beyond the Efficacy of
- Meat: Not Mixed with Leaven (Yeast)
- Meat: Offered with the Sacrifices
- Meat: Ordinances Concerning
- Meat: Provided for in the Vision of Ezekiel
- Meat: Storage Rooms For, in the Temple Reconstructed by Ezra
- Meat: To be Eaten in the Holy Place
- Must be without Leaven (Yeast)
- Must Be: Accompanied with Leaven (Yeast)
- Must Be: Salted
- Offered at the Door of the Tabernacle
- Offered at the Door of the Temple
- Ordinance Relating to the Scapegoat
- Peace: Laws Concerning
- Required to Be: Brought in a Clean Vessel
- Required to Be: Brought to the Place Appointed of God
- Required to Be: Brought Without Delay
- Required to Be: Laid Before the Altar
- Required to Be: Offered in Love and Charity
- Required to Be: Offered in Righteous
- Required to Be: Offered Willingly
- Required to Be: Perfect
- Required to Be: Presented by the Priest
- Required to Be: The Best of Their Kind
- Sin: Ordinances Concerning
- Sin: Temporary
- Thank: Ordinances Concerning
- The Conversion of the Gentiles
- The Conversion of the Jews
- The Jews often: Abhorred, on Account of the Sins of the Priests
- The Jews often: Defrauded God of
- The Jews often: Gave the Worst They had As
- The Jews often: Presented to Idols
- The Jews often: Rejected In, Because of Sin
- The Jews often: Slow in Presenting
- Things Forbidden as The Price of a Dog
- Things Forbidden as The Price of Fornication
- Things Forbidden as Whatever Was Blemished
- Things Forbidden as Whatever Was Imperfect
- Things Forbidden as Whatever Was Unclean
- To be Made to God Alone
- Trespass: Offered by Idolaters
- Trespass: Ordinances Concerning
- Trespass: To be Eaten by the Priests
- Unacceptable, Without Gratitude
- Useless when not Accompanied by Genuine Piety
- Vow
- Wave: Belonged to the Priests
- Wave: Ordinances Concerning
- Wave: To be Eaten
- Wood: Fuel for the Temple
All Animal Sacrifices Must be Eight Days Old or More
- Leviticus 22:27 “When an ox, a sheep, or a goat is born, it must remain with its mother for seven days. From the eighth day on, it will be acceptable as a food offering presented to the LORD.
Animal Sacrifices: A Type of Christ
- Psalm 40:6–8 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require. …
- Hebrews 10:1–14 For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. …
- Isaiah 53:11–12 After the anguish of His soul, He will see the light of life and be satisfied. By His knowledge My righteous Servant will justify many, and He will bear their iniquities. …
- Leviticus 16:21 Then he is to lay both hands on the head of the live goat and confess over it all the iniquities and rebellious acts of the Israelites in regard to all their sins. He is to put them on the goat’s head and send it away into the …
- John 1:29 The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
- 1 Corinthians 5:7 Get rid of the old leaven, that you may be a new unleavened batch, as you really are. For Christ, our Passover lamb, has been sacrificed.
- 2 Corinthians 5:21 God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
- Ephesians 5:2 and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
- Hebrews 9:19–28 For when Moses had proclaimed every commandment of the law to all the people, he took the blood of calves and goats, along with water, scarlet wool, and hyssop, and sprinkled the scroll and all the people, …
- Hebrews 10:1 For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
- Hebrews 10:11–12 Day after day every priest stands to minister and to offer again and again the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. …
- Hebrews 13:11–13 Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp. …
- Revelation 5:6 Then I saw a Lamb who appeared to have been slain, standing in the center of the throne, encircled by the four living creatures and the elders. The Lamb had seven horns and seven eyes, which represent the seven spirits of God …
Antiquity of
- Genesis 4:3–4 So in the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the LORD, …
Burnt
- Leviticus 9:2 He said to Aaron, “Take for yourself a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering, both without blemish, and present them before the LORD.
Burnt: Accompanied by Other offerings
- Numbers 15:3–16 and you present a food offering to the LORD from the herd or flock to produce a pleasing aroma to the LORD — either a burnt offering or a sacrifice, for a special vow or freewill offering or appointed feast— …
Burnt: Its Purpose Was to Make an Atonement for Sin
- Leviticus 1:4 He is to lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, so it can be accepted on his behalf to make atonement for him.
- Leviticus 7:1 “Now this is the law of the guilt offering, which is most holy:
Burnt: Music With
- Numbers 10:10 And on your joyous occasions, your appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month, you are to blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and peace offerings to serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.”
Burnt: Offered Daily, Morning and Evening
- Genesis 15:17 When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.
- Exodus 29:38–42 This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old. …
- Leviticus 6:20 “This is the offering that Aaron and his sons must present to the LORD on the day he is anointed: a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a regular grain offering, half of it in the morning and half in the evening.
- Numbers 28:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 29:6 These are in addition to the monthly and daily burnt offerings with their prescribed grain offerings and drink offerings. They are a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.
- 1 Chronicles 16:40 to regularly present burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offerings, morning and evening, according to all that was written in the Law of the LORD, which He had commanded Israel to keep.
- 2 Chronicles 2:4 Behold, I am about to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God to dedicate to Him for burning fragrant incense before Him, for displaying the showbread continuously, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening …
- 2 Chronicles 13:11 Every morning and every evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the rows of showbread on the ceremonially clean table, and every evening they light the lamps of the gold lampstand. We …
- Ezra 3:3 They set up the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the LORD — both the morning and evening burnt offerings — even though they feared the people of the land.
- Ezekiel 46:13–15 And you shall provide an unblemished year-old lamb as a daily burnt offering to the LORD; you are to offer it every morning. …
Burnt: Ordinances Concerning
- Exodus 29:15–18 Take one of the rams, and Aaron and his sons shall lay their hands on its head. …
- Leviticus 1:1 Then the LORD called to Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying,
- Leviticus 5:7–10 If, however, he cannot afford a lamb, he may bring to the LORD as restitution for his sin two turtledoves or two young pigeons — one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. …
- Leviticus 6:9–13 “Command Aaron and his sons that this is the law of the burnt offering: The burnt offering is to remain on the hearth of the altar all night, until morning, and the fire must be kept burning on the altar. …
- Leviticus 17:8–9 Tell them that if anyone from the house of Israel or any foreigner living among them offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice …
- Leviticus 23:18 Along with the bread you are to present seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings — a food offering, …
- Leviticus 23:26–37 Again the LORD said to Moses, …
- Numbers 15:24–25 and if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, then the whole congregation is to prepare one young bull as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and drink offering …
- Numbers 19:9 Then a man who is ceremonially clean is to gather up the ashes of the heifer and store them in a ceremonially clean place outside the camp. They must be kept by the congregation of Israel for preparing the water of purification; …
- Numbers 28:26–31 On the day of firstfruits, when you present an offering of new grain to the LORD during the Feast of Weeks, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work. …
- Numbers 29:1 “On the first day of the seventh month, you are to hold a sacred assembly, and you must not do any regular work. This will be a day for you to sound the trumpets.
Burnt: Skins of, Belonged to Priests
- Leviticus 7:8 As for the priest who presents a burnt offering for anyone, the hide of that offering belongs to him.
Christ's offering of Himself
- Ephesians 5:2 and walk in love, just as Christ loved us and gave Himself up for us as a fragrant sacrificial offering to God.
Could not Make the offerer Perfect
- Hebrews 9:9 It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.
Declared to be Most Holy
- Numbers 18:9 A portion of the most holy offerings reserved from the fire will be yours. From all the offerings they render to Me as most holy offerings, whether grain offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons.
Different Kinds of Burnt
- Leviticus 1:3–17 If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to present an unblemished male. He must bring it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for its acceptance before the LORD. …
- Psalm 66:15 I will offer You fatlings as burnt offerings, with the fragrant smoke of rams; I will offer bulls and goats. Selah
Different Kinds of Drink
- Genesis 35:14 So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him— a stone marker— and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.
- Exodus 29:40 With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives, and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.
- Numbers 15:5 With the burnt offering or sacrifice of each lamb, you are to prepare a quarter hin of wine as a drink offering.
Different Kinds of First-Fruits
- Exodus 22:29 You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons.
- Deuteronomy 18:4 You are to give them the firstfruits of your grain, new wine, and oil, and the first wool sheared from your flock.
Different Kinds of Free-Will
- Leviticus 23:38 These offerings are in addition to the offerings for the LORD’s Sabbaths, and in addition to your gifts, to all your vow offerings, and to all the freewill offerings you give to the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 16:10 And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with a freewill offering that you give in proportion to how the LORD your God has blessed you,
- Deuteronomy 23:23 Be careful to follow through on what comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed to the LORD your God with your own mouth.
Different Kinds of Gifts
- Exodus 35:22 So all who had willing hearts, both men and women, came and brought brooches and earrings, rings and necklaces, and all kinds of gold jewelry. And they all presented their gold as a wave offering to the LORD.
- Numbers 7:2–88 And the leaders of Israel, the heads of their families, presented an offering. These men were the tribal leaders who had supervised the registration. …
Different Kinds of Heave
- Exodus 29:27–28 Consecrate for Aaron and his sons the breast of the wave offering that is waved and the thigh of the heave offering that is lifted up from the ram of ordination. …
- Exodus 7:14 Then the LORD said to Moses, “Pharaoh’s heart is unyielding; he refuses to let the people go.
- Numbers 15:19 and you eat the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the LORD.
Different Kinds of Incense
- Exodus 30:8 When Aaron sets up the lamps at twilight, he must burn the incense perpetually before the LORD for the generations to come.
- Malachi 1:11 For My name will be great among the nations, from where the sun rises to where it sets. In every place, incense and pure offerings will be presented in My name, because My name will be great among the nations,” says the LORD of Hosts.
- Luke 1:9 he was chosen by lot, according to the custom of the priesthood, to enter the temple of the Lord and burn incense.
Different Kinds of Jealousy
- Numbers 5:15 then he is to bring his wife to the priest. He must also bring for her an offering of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He is not to pour oil over it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, an …
Different Kinds of Meat
- Leviticus 2:1–16 “When anyone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering must consist of fine flour. He is to pour olive oil on it, put frankincense on it, …
- Numbers 15:4 then the one presenting his offering to the LORD shall also present a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter hin of olive oil.
Different Kinds of Peace
- Leviticus 3:1–17 “If one’s offering is a peace offering and he offers an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he must present it without blemish before the LORD. …
- Leviticus 7:11 Now this is the law of the peace offering that one may present to the LORD:
Different Kinds of Personal, for Redemption
- Exodus 30:13 Everyone who crosses over to those counted must pay a half shekel, according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the LORD.
- Exodus 30:15 In making the offering to the LORD to atone for your lives, the rich shall not give more than a half shekel, nor shall the poor give less.
Different Kinds of Sin
- Leviticus 4:3–35 If the anointed priest sins, bringing guilt on the people, he must bring to the LORD a young bull without blemish as a sin offering for the sin he has committed. …
- Leviticus 6:25 “Tell Aaron and his sons that this is the law of the sin offering: In the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered, the sin offering shall be slaughtered before the LORD; it is most holy.
- Leviticus 10:17 “Why didn’t you eat the sin offering in the holy place? For it is most holy; it was given to you to take away the guilt of the congregation by making atonement for them before the LORD.
Different Kinds of Thank
- Leviticus 7:12 If he offers it in thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil.
- Leviticus 22:29 When you sacrifice a thank offering to the LORD, offer it so that it may be acceptable on your behalf.
- Psalm 50:14 Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.
Different Kinds of Tithe
- Leviticus 27:30 Thus any tithe from the land, whether from the seed of the land or the fruit of the trees, belongs to the LORD; it is holy to the LORD.
- Numbers 18:21 Behold, I have given to the Levites all the tithes in Israel as an inheritance in return for the work they do, the service of the Tent of Meeting.
- Deuteronomy 14:22 You must be sure to set aside a tenth of all the produce brought forth each year from your fields.
Different Kinds of Trespass
- Leviticus 5:16–19 Regarding any holy thing he has harmed, he must make restitution by adding a fifth of its value to it and giving it to the priest, who will make atonement on his behalf with the ram as a guilt offering, and he will be forgiven. …
- Leviticus 6:6 Then he must bring to the priest his guilt offering to the LORD: an unblemished ram of proper value from the flock.
- Leviticus 7:1 “Now this is the law of the guilt offering, which is most holy:
Different Kinds of Wave
- Exodus 29:26 Take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s ordination and wave it before the LORD as a wave offering, and it will be your portion.
- Leviticus 7:30 With his own hands he is to bring the food offerings to the LORD; he shall bring the fat, together with the breast, and wave the breast as a wave offering before the LORD.
Drink: Libations of Wine offered with the Sacrifices
- Genesis 35:14 So Jacob set up a pillar in the place where God had spoken with him— a stone marker— and he poured out a drink offering on it and anointed it with oil.
- Exodus 29:40–41 With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives, and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine. …
- Exodus 30:9 On this altar you must not offer unauthorized incense or a burnt offering or grain offering; nor are you to pour a drink offering on it.
- Leviticus 23:13 along with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil — a food offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma — and its drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.
- Leviticus 23:18 Along with the bread you are to present seven unblemished male lambs a year old, one young bull, and two rams. They will be a burnt offering to the LORD, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings — a food offering, …
- Numbers 6:17 He shall also offer the ram as a peace offering to the LORD, along with the basket of unleavened bread. And the priest is to offer the accompanying grain offering and drink offering.
- Numbers 15:24 and if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, then the whole congregation is to prepare one young bull as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and drink offering …
- Numbers 28:5–15 along with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives. …
- Numbers 28:24–31 Offer the same food each day for seven days as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. It is to be offered with its drink offering and the regular burnt offering. …
- Numbers 29:6–11 These are in addition to the monthly and daily burnt offerings with their prescribed grain offerings and drink offerings. They are a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD. …
- Numbers 29:18–40 along with the grain and drink offerings for the bulls, rams, and lambs, according to the number prescribed. …
- 2 Kings 16:13 He offered his burnt offering and his grain offering, poured out his drink offering, and splattered the blood of his peace offerings on the altar.
- 1 Chronicles 29:21 The next day they offered sacrifices and presented burnt offerings to the LORD: a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, along with their drink offerings, and other sacrifices in abundance for all Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 29:35 Furthermore, the burnt offerings were abundant, along with the fat of the peace offerings and the drink offerings for the burnt offerings. So the service of the house of the LORD was established.
- Ezra 7:17 With this money, therefore, you are to buy as many bulls, rams, and lambs as needed, together with their grain offerings and drink offerings, and offer them on the altar at the house of your God in Jerusalem.
Eaten
- 1 Samuel 9:13 As soon as you enter the city, you will find him before he goes up to the high place to eat. The people will not eat until he comes, because he must bless the sacrifice; after that, the guests will eat. Go up at once; you will find him.”
Figurative
- Psalm 51:17 The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise.
- Jeremiah 33:11 the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, and the voices of those bringing thank offerings into the house of the LORD, saying: ‘Give thanks to the LORD of Hosts, for the LORD is good; His loving …
- Romans 12:1 Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your spiritual service of worship.
- Philippians 4:18 I have all I need and more, now that I have received your gifts from Epaphroditus. They are a fragrant offering, an acceptable sacrifice, well-pleasing to God.
- Hebrews 13:15 Through Jesus, therefore, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise, the fruit of lips that confess His name.
Free Will with Meat and Drink offerings
- Numbers 15:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
- Numbers 16:1 Now Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath son of Levi, along with some Reubenites — Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth — conducted
Free Will: Must be Perfect (Whole, Complete)
- Leviticus 22:17–25 Then the LORD said to Moses, …
Free Will: Obligatory when Signified in a Vow
- Deuteronomy 16:10 And you shall celebrate the Feast of Weeks to the LORD your God with a freewill offering that you give in proportion to how the LORD your God has blessed you,
- Deuteronomy 23:23 Be careful to follow through on what comes from your lips, because you have freely vowed to the LORD your God with your own mouth.
Free Will: To be Eaten by Priests
- Leviticus 7:11–18 Now this is the law of the peace offering that one may present to the LORD: …
Heave in Certain Instances This offering Was Brought to the Tabernacle, or Temple
- Deuteronomy 12:6 To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
- Deuteronomy 12:11 then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD.
- Deuteronomy 12:17–18 Within your gates you must not eat the tithe of your grain or new wine or oil, the firstborn of your herds or flocks, any of the offerings that you have vowed to give, or your freewill offerings or special gifts. …
Heave: Consecrated by Being Elevated by the Priest
- Exodus 29:27 Consecrate for Aaron and his sons the breast of the wave offering that is waved and the thigh of the heave offering that is lifted up from the ram of ordination.
Heave: Consisted of the Right Thigh or Hind Quarter (R. V.)
- Exodus 29:27–28 Consecrate for Aaron and his sons the breast of the wave offering that is waved and the thigh of the heave offering that is lifted up from the ram of ordination. …
- Leviticus 7:12–14 If he offers it in thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil. …
- Leviticus 7:32 And you are to give the right thigh to the priest as a contribution from your peace offering.
- Leviticus 7:34 I have taken from the sons of Israel the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution of their peace offerings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons as a permanent portion from the sons of Israel.’”
- Leviticus 10:15 They are to bring the thigh of the contribution and the breast of the wave offering, together with the fat portions of the food offerings, to wave as a wave offering before the LORD. It will belong permanently to you and your …
Heave: Given to the Priests' Families As Part of Their Benefits
- Leviticus 10:14 And you and your sons and daughters may eat the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution in a ceremonially clean place, because these portions have been assigned to you and your children from the peace …
- Numbers 5:9 Every sacred contribution the Israelites bring to the priest shall belong to him.
- Numbers 18:10–19 You are to eat it as a most holy offering, and every male may eat it. You shall regard it as holy. …
- Numbers 18:24 For I have given to the Levites as their inheritance the tithe that the Israelites present to the LORD as a contribution. That is why I told them that they would not receive an inheritance among the Israelites.”
Heave: Plunder, Including Captives and Other Articles of War
- Numbers 31:29 Take it from their half and give it to Eleazar the priest as an offering to the LORD.
- Numbers 31:41 Moses gave the tribute to Eleazar the priest as an offering for the LORD, as the LORD had commanded Moses.
Heave: To be offered on Taking Possession of the Land of Canaan
- Numbers 15:18–21 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you enter the land to which I am bringing you …
Heave: when offered
- Leviticus 7:12–14 If he offers it in thanksgiving, then along with the sacrifice of thanksgiving he shall offer unleavened cakes mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers coated with oil, and well-kneaded cakes of fine flour mixed with oil. …
- Numbers 6:20 The priest shall then wave them as a wave offering before the LORD. This is a holy portion for the priest, in addition to the breast of the wave offering and the thigh that was presented. After that, the Nazirite may drink wine.
- Numbers 15:19–21 and you eat the food of the land, you shall lift up an offering to the LORD. …
Hezekiah Prepared Chambers For
- 2 Chronicles 31:11 Then Hezekiah commanded them to prepare storerooms in the house of the LORD, and they did so.
Human Sacrifices: Abraham
- Genesis 22:1–19 Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered. …
- Hebrews 11:17–19 By faith Abraham, when he was tested, offered up Isaac on the altar. He who had received the promises was ready to offer his one and only son, …
Human Sacrifices: Canaanites
- Deuteronomy 12:31 You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.
Human Sacrifices: Forbidden
- Leviticus 18:21 You must not give any of your children to be sacrificed to Molech, for you must not profane the name of your God. I am the LORD.
- Leviticus 20:2–5 “Tell the Israelites, ‘Any Israelite or foreigner living in Israel who gives any of his children to Molech must be put to death. The people of the land are to stone him. …
- Deuteronomy 12:31 You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.
Human Sacrifices: Israelites
- 2 Kings 16:3 Instead, he walked in the ways of the kings of Israel and even sacrificed his son in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
- 2 Chronicles 28:3 Moreover, Ahaz burned incense in the Valley of Ben-hinnom and sacrificed his sons in the fire, according to the abominations of the nations that the LORD had driven out before the Israelites.
- 2 Kings 23:10 He also desecrated Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so that no one could sacrifice his son or daughter in the fire to Molech.
- Isaiah 57:5 who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
- Jeremiah 7:31 They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire — something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.
- Jeremiah 19:5 They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal — something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.
- Jeremiah 32:35 They have built the high places of Baal in the Valley of Ben-hinnom to make their sons and daughters pass through the fire to Molech— something I never commanded them, nor had it ever entered My mind, that they should commit such …
- Ezekiel 16:20–21 You even took the sons and daughters you bore to Me and sacrificed them as food to idols. Was your prostitution not enough? …
- Ezekiel 20:26 And I pronounced them unclean through their gifts — the sacrifice of every firstborn in the fire — so that I might devastate them, in order that they would know that I am the LORD.
- Ezekiel 20:31 When you offer your gifts, sacrificing your sons in the fire, you continue to defile yourselves with all your idols to this day. So should I be consulted by you, O house of Israel? As surely as I live, declares the Lord GOD, I …
- Ezekiel 23:37 For they have committed adultery, and blood is on their hands. They have committed adultery with their idols. They have even sacrificed their children, whom they bore to Me, in the fire as food for their idols.
- Ezekiel 23:39 On the very day they slaughtered their children for their idols, they entered My sanctuary to profane it. Yes, they did this inside My house.
Human Sacrifices: Moabites
- 2 Kings 3:27 So he took his firstborn son, who was to succeed him, and offered him as a burnt offering on the city wall. And there was great fury against the Israelites, so they withdrew and returned to their own land.
Human Sacrifices: Offered to Baal
- Jeremiah 19:5–6 They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal — something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind. …
Human Sacrifices: Offered to Demons
- Psalm 106:37–38 They sacrificed their sons and their daughters to demons. …
Human Sacrifices: The Sepharvites to Idols
- 2 Kings 17:31 the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech the gods of Sepharvaim.
Insufficiency of
- Hebrews 8:7–13 For if that first covenant had been without fault, no place would have been sought for a second. …
- Hebrews 9:1–15 Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary. …
- Hebrews 10:1–12 For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship. …
- Hebrews 10:18–20 And where these have been forgiven, an offering for sin is no longer needed. …
Laid up in the Temple
- 2 Chronicles 31:12 And they faithfully brought in the contributions, tithes, and dedicated gifts. Conaniah the Levite was the officer in charge of them, and his brother Shimei was second.
- Nehemiah 10:37 Moreover, we will bring to the priests at the storerooms of the house of our God the firstfruits of our dough, of our grain offerings, of the fruit of all our trees, and of our new wine and oil. A tenth of our produce belongs to …
Made by Strangers, to be the Same As by the Jews
- Numbers 15:14–16 And for the generations to come, if a foreigner residing with you or someone else among you wants to prepare a food offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, he is to do exactly as you do. …
Many Offenses Under the Law, Beyond the Efficacy of
- 1 Samuel 3:14 Therefore I have sworn to the house of Eli, ‘The iniquity of Eli’s house shall never be atoned for by sacrifice or offering.’”
- Psalm 51:16 For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings.
Meat: Not Mixed with Leaven (Yeast)
- Leviticus 2:4 Now if you bring an offering of grain baked in an oven, it must consist of fine flour, either unleavened cakes mixed with oil or unleavened wafers coated with oil.
- Leviticus 2:11 No grain offering that you present to the LORD may be made with leaven, for you are not to burn any leaven or honey as a food offering to the LORD.
- Leviticus 6:14–18 Now this is the law of the grain offering: Aaron’s sons shall present it before the LORD in front of the altar. …
- Leviticus 10:12–13 And Moses said to Aaron and his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, “Take the grain offering that remains from the food offerings to the LORD and eat it without leaven beside the altar, because it is most holy. …
- Numbers 6:15 together with their grain offerings and drink offerings — and a basket of unleavened cakes made from fine flour mixed with oil and unleavened wafers coated with oil.
- Numbers 6:17 He shall also offer the ram as a peace offering to the LORD, along with the basket of unleavened bread. And the priest is to offer the accompanying grain offering and drink offering.
Meat: Offered with the Sacrifices
- Numbers 15:3–16 and you present a food offering to the LORD from the herd or flock to produce a pleasing aroma to the LORD — either a burnt offering or a sacrifice, for a special vow or freewill offering or appointed feast— …
Meat: Ordinances Concerning
- Exodus 29:40–41 With the first lamb offer a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives, and a drink offering of a quarter hin of wine. …
- Exodus 30:9 On this altar you must not offer unauthorized incense or a burnt offering or grain offering; nor are you to pour a drink offering on it.
- Exodus 40:29 He placed the altar of burnt offering near the entrance to the tabernacle, the Tent of Meeting, and offered on it the burnt offering and the grain offering, just as the LORD had commanded him.
- Leviticus 2:1 “When anyone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering must consist of fine flour. He is to pour olive oil on it, put frankincense on it,
- Leviticus 5:11–12 But if he cannot afford two turtledoves or two young pigeons, he may bring a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a sin offering. He must not put olive oil or frankincense on it, because it is a sin offering. …
- Leviticus 6:14–23 Now this is the law of the grain offering: Aaron’s sons shall present it before the LORD in front of the altar. …
- Leviticus 7:9–13 Likewise, every grain offering that is baked in an oven or cooked in a pan or on a griddle belongs to the priest who presents it, …
- Leviticus 7:37 This is the law of the burnt offering, the grain offering, the sin offering, the guilt offering, the ordination offering, and the peace offering,
- Leviticus 9:17 Next he presented the grain offering, took a handful of it, and burned it on the altar in addition to the morning’s burnt offering.
- Leviticus 23:13 along with its grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil — a food offering to the LORD, a pleasing aroma — and its drink offering of a quarter hin of wine.
- Leviticus 23:16–17 You shall count off fifty days until the day after the seventh Sabbath, and then present an offering of new grain to the LORD. …
- Numbers 4:16 Eleazar son of Aaron the priest shall oversee the oil for the light, the fragrant incense, the daily grain offering, and the anointing oil. He has oversight of the entire tabernacle and everything in it, including the holy …
- Numbers 5:15 then he is to bring his wife to the priest. He must also bring for her an offering of a tenth of an ephah of barley flour. He is not to pour oil over it or put frankincense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, an …
- Numbers 5:18 After the priest has the woman stand before the LORD, he is to let down her hair and place in her hands the grain offering of memorial, which is the grain offering for jealousy. The priest is to hold the bitter water that brings a curse.
- Numbers 5:25–26 The priest shall take from her hand the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the LORD, and bring it to the altar. …
- Numbers 8:8 Then have them take a young bull with its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you are to take a second young bull for a sin offering.
- Numbers 15:3–16 and you present a food offering to the LORD from the herd or flock to produce a pleasing aroma to the LORD — either a burnt offering or a sacrifice, for a special vow or freewill offering or appointed feast— …
- Numbers 15:24 and if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, then the whole congregation is to prepare one young bull as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and drink offering …
- Numbers 18:9 A portion of the most holy offerings reserved from the fire will be yours. From all the offerings they render to Me as most holy offerings, whether grain offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons.
- Numbers 28:5 along with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives.
- Numbers 28:9 On the Sabbath day, present two unblemished year-old male lambs, accompanied by a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, as well as a drink offering.
- Numbers 28:12–13 along with three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering with each bull, two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering with the ram, …
- Numbers 28:20–21 The grain offering shall consist of fine flour mixed with oil; offer three-tenths of an ephah with each bull, two-tenths of an ephah with the ram, …
- Numbers 28:26–31 On the day of firstfruits, when you present an offering of new grain to the LORD during the Feast of Weeks, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work. …
- Numbers 29:3–4 together with their grain offerings of fine flour mixed with oil— three-tenths of an ephah with the bull, two-tenths of an ephah with the ram, …
- Numbers 29:14 along with the grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil with each of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths of an ephah with each of the two rams,
Meat: Provided for in the Vision of Ezekiel
- Ezekiel 42:13 Then the man said to me, “The north and south chambers facing the temple courtyard are the holy chambers where the priests who approach the LORD will eat the most holy offerings. There they will place the most holy offerings— the …
Meat: Storage Rooms For, in the Temple Reconstructed by Ezra
- Nehemiah 12:44 And on that same day men were appointed over the rooms that housed the supplies, contributions, firstfruits, and tithes. The portions specified by the Law for the priests and Levites were gathered into these storerooms from the …
- Nehemiah 13:5–6 and had prepared for Tobiah a large room where they had previously stored the grain offerings, the frankincense, the temple articles, and the tithes of grain, new wine, and oil prescribed for the Levites, singers, and …
Meat: To be Eaten in the Holy Place
- Leviticus 10:13 You shall eat it in a holy place, because it is your share and your sons’ share of the food offerings to the LORD; for this is what I have been commanded.
- Numbers 18:9–10 A portion of the most holy offerings reserved from the fire will be yours. From all the offerings they render to Me as most holy offerings, whether grain offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons. …
Must be without Leaven (Yeast)
- Exodus 23:18 You must not offer the blood of My sacrifices with anything leavened, nor may the fat of My feast remain until morning.
- Exodus 34:25 Do not offer the blood of a sacrifice to Me along with anything leavened, and do not let any of the sacrifice from the Passover Feast remain until morning.
Must Be: Accompanied with Leaven (Yeast)
- Leviticus 7:13 Along with his peace offering of thanksgiving he is to present an offering with cakes of leavened bread.
- Amos 4:5 Offer leavened bread as a thank offering, and loudly proclaim your freewill offerings. For that is what you children of Israel love to do,” declares the Lord GOD.
Must Be: Salted
- Leviticus 2:13 And you shall season each of your grain offerings with salt. You must not leave the salt of the covenant of your God out of your grain offering; you are to add salt to each of your offerings.
- Ezekiel 43:24 You must present them before the LORD; the priests are to sprinkle salt on them and sacrifice them as a burnt offering to the LORD.
- Mark 9:49 For everyone will be salted with fire.
Offered at the Door of the Tabernacle
- Leviticus 1:3 If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he is to present an unblemished male. He must bring it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting for its acceptance before the LORD.
- Leviticus 3:2 He is to lay his hand on the head of the offering and slaughter it at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. Then Aaron’s sons the priests shall splatter the blood on all sides of the altar.
- Leviticus 17:4 instead of bringing it to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting to present it as an offering to the LORD before His tabernacle— that man shall incur bloodguilt. He has shed blood and must be cut off from among his people.
- Leviticus 17:8–9 Tell them that if anyone from the house of Israel or any foreigner living among them offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice …
Offered at the Door of the Temple
- 2 Chronicles 7:12 the LORD appeared to him at night and said to him: “I have heard your prayer and have chosen this place for Myself as a house of sacrifice.
- 1 Kings 8:62 Then the king and all Israel with him offered sacrifices before the LORD.
- 1 Kings 12:27 If these people go up to offer sacrifices in the house of the LORD at Jerusalem, their hearts will return to their lord, Rehoboam king of Judah; then they will kill me and return to Rehoboam king of Judah.”
Ordinance Relating to the Scapegoat
- Leviticus 16:7–26 Then he shall take the two goats and present them before the LORD at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. …
Peace: Laws Concerning
- Exodus 29:19–22 Take the second ram, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on its head. …
- Exodus 29:31 You are to take the ram of ordination and boil its flesh in a holy place.
- Leviticus 7:11–15 Now this is the law of the peace offering that one may present to the LORD: …
- Leviticus 7:18 If any of the meat from his peace offering is eaten on the third day, it will not be accepted. It will not be credited to the one who presented it; it shall be an abomination, and the one who eats of it shall bear his iniquity.
- Leviticus 9:3–4 Then speak to the Israelites and say, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, a calf and a lamb — both a year old and without blemish — for a burnt offering, …
- Leviticus 9:15–21 Aaron then presented the people’s offering. He took the male goat for the people’s sin offering, slaughtered it, and offered it for sin like the first one. …
- Leviticus 23:19 You shall also prepare one male goat as a sin offering and two male lambs a year old as a peace offering.
- Numbers 6:14 and he is to present an offering to the LORD of an unblemished year-old male lamb as a burnt offering, an unblemished year-old female lamb as a sin offering, and an unblemished ram as a peace offering —
- Numbers 10:10 And on your joyous occasions, your appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month, you are to blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and peace offerings to serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.”
Required to Be: Brought in a Clean Vessel
- Isaiah 66:20 And they will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the LORD on horses and chariots and wagons, on mules and camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the LORD, “just as the Israelites bring an offering in …
Required to Be: Brought to the Place Appointed of God
- Deuteronomy 12:6 To that place you are to bring your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and heave offerings, your vow offerings and freewill offerings, as well as the firstborn of your herds and flocks.
- Psalm 27:6 Then my head will be held high above my enemies around me. At His tabernacle I will offer sacrifices with shouts of joy; I will sing and make music to the LORD.
- Hebrews 9:9 It is an illustration for the present time, because the gifts and sacrifices being offered were unable to cleanse the conscience of the worshiper.
Required to Be: Brought Without Delay
- Exodus 22:29–30 You must not hold back offerings from your granaries or vats. You are to give Me the firstborn of your sons. …
Required to Be: Laid Before the Altar
- Matthew 5:23–24 So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, …
Required to Be: Offered in Love and Charity
- Matthew 5:23–24 So if you are offering your gift at the altar and there remember that your brother has something against you, …
Required to Be: Offered in Righteous
- Malachi 3:3 And He will sit as a refiner and purifier of silver; He will purify the sons of Levi and refine them like gold and silver. Then they will present offerings to the LORD in righteousness.
Required to Be: Offered Willingly
- Leviticus 22:19 must offer an unblemished male from the cattle, sheep, or goats in order for it to be accepted on your behalf.
Required to Be: Perfect
- Leviticus 22:21 When a man presents a peace offering to the LORD from the herd or flock to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, it must be without blemish or defect to be acceptable.
Required to Be: Presented by the Priest
- Hebrews 5:1 Every high priest is appointed from among men to represent them in matters relating to God, to offer gifts and sacrifices for sins.
Required to Be: The Best of Their Kind
- Malachi 1:14 “But cursed is the deceiver who has an acceptable male in his flock and vows to give it, but sacrifices a defective animal to the Lord. For I am a great King,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and My name is to be feared among the nations.
Sin: Ordinances Concerning
- Exodus 29:10–14 You are to present the bull at the front of the Tent of Meeting, and Aaron and his sons are to lay their hands on its head. …
- Hebrews 13:11–13 Although the high priest brings the blood of animals into the Holy Place as a sacrifice for sin, the bodies are burned outside the camp. …
- Leviticus 4:1 Then the LORD said to Moses,
- Leviticus 5:1 “If someone sins by failing to testify when he hears a public charge about something he has witnessed, whether he has seen it or learned of it, he shall bear the iniquity.
- Leviticus 6:1–7 And the LORD said to Moses, …
- Leviticus 6:26–30 The priest who offers it shall eat it; it must be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting. …
- Leviticus 9:1–21 On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel. …
- Leviticus 12:6–8 When the days of her purification are complete, whether for a son or for a daughter, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for …
- Leviticus 14:19 Then the priest is to sacrifice the sin offering and make atonement for the one to be cleansed from his uncleanness. After that, the priest shall slaughter the burnt offering
- Leviticus 14:22 and two turtledoves or two young pigeons, whichever he can afford, one to be a sin offering and the other a burnt offering.
- Leviticus 14:31 one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, together with the grain offering. In this way the priest will make atonement before the LORD for the one to be cleansed.
- Leviticus 15:30 The priest is to sacrifice one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for her before the LORD for her unclean discharge.
- Leviticus 23:19 You shall also prepare one male goat as a sin offering and two male lambs a year old as a peace offering.
- Numbers 6:10–11 On the eighth day he must bring two turtledoves or two young pigeons to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. …
- Numbers 6:14 and he is to present an offering to the LORD of an unblemished year-old male lamb as a burnt offering, an unblemished year-old female lamb as a sin offering, and an unblemished ram as a peace offering —
- Numbers 6:16 The priest is to present all these before the LORD and make the sin offering and the burnt offering.
- Numbers 8:8 Then have them take a young bull with its grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, and you are to take a second young bull for a sin offering.
- Numbers 8:12 And the Levites are to lay their hands on the heads of the bulls, and offer to the LORD one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering, to make atonement for the Levites.
- Numbers 15:27 Also, if one person sins unintentionally, he is to present a year-old female goat as a sin offering.
- Numbers 28:15 In addition to the regular burnt offering with its drink offering, one male goat is to be presented to the LORD as a sin offering.
- Numbers 28:22–24 Include one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you. …
- Numbers 28:30 Include one male goat to make atonement for you.
- Numbers 29:5–6 Include one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you. …
- Numbers 29:11 Include one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement and the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offerings.
- Numbers 29:16–38 Include one male goat as a sin offering, in addition to the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offering. …
Sin: Temporary
- Daniel 11:31 His forces will rise up and desecrate the temple fortress. They will abolish the daily sacrifice and set up the abomination of desolation.
- Hebrews 9:1 Now the first covenant had regulations for worship and also an earthly sanctuary.
- Hebrews 10:1 For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to worship.
Thank: Ordinances Concerning
- Leviticus 7:11–15 Now this is the law of the peace offering that one may present to the LORD: …
- Leviticus 22:29 When you sacrifice a thank offering to the LORD, offer it so that it may be acceptable on your behalf.
- Deuteronomy 12:11–12 then the LORD your God will choose a dwelling for His Name. And there you are to bring everything I command you: your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and special gifts, and all the choice offerings you vow to the LORD. …
The Conversion of the Gentiles
- Romans 15:16 to be a minister of Christ Jesus to the Gentiles in the priestly service of the gospel of God, so that the Gentiles might become an offering acceptable to God, sanctified by the Holy Spirit.
The Conversion of the Jews
- Isaiah 66:20 And they will bring all your brothers from all the nations as a gift to the LORD on horses and chariots and wagons, on mules and camels, to My holy mountain Jerusalem,” says the LORD, “just as the Israelites bring an offering in …
The Jews often: Abhorred, on Account of the Sins of the Priests
- 1 Samuel 2:17 Thus the sin of these young men was severe in the sight of the LORD, for they were treating the LORD’s offering with contempt.
The Jews often: Defrauded God of
- Malachi 3:8 Will a man rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you ask, ‘How do we rob You?’ In tithes and offerings.
The Jews often: Gave the Worst They had As
- Malachi 1:8 When you offer blind animals for sacrifice, is it not wrong? And when you present the lame and sick ones, is it not wrong? Try offering them to your governor! Would he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Hosts.
- Malachi 1:13 You also say: ‘Oh, what a nuisance!’ And you turn up your nose at it,” says the LORD of Hosts. “You bring offerings that are stolen, lame, or sick! Should I accept these from your hands?” asks the LORD.
The Jews often: Presented to Idols
- Ezekiel 20:28 When I brought them into the land that I swore to give them and they saw any high hill or leafy tree, there they offered their sacrifices, presented offerings that provoked Me, sent up their fragrant incense, and poured out their …
The Jews often: Rejected In, Because of Sin
- Isaiah 1:13 Bring your worthless offerings no more; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and convocations— I cannot endure iniquity in a solemn assembly.
- Malachi 1:10 “Oh, that one of you would shut the temple doors, so that you would no longer kindle useless fires on My altar! I take no pleasure in you,” says the LORD of Hosts, “and I will accept no offering from your hands.
The Jews often: Slow in Presenting
- Nehemiah 13:10–12 I also learned that because the portions for the Levites had not been given to them, all the Levites and singers responsible for performing the service had gone back to their own fields. …
Things Forbidden as The Price of a Dog
- Deuteronomy 23:18 You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
Things Forbidden as The Price of Fornication
- Deuteronomy 23:18 You must not bring the wages of a prostitute, whether female or male, into the house of the LORD your God to fulfill any vow, because both are detestable to the LORD your God.
Things Forbidden as Whatever Was Blemished
- Leviticus 22:20 You must not present anything with a defect, because it will not be accepted on your behalf.
Things Forbidden as Whatever Was Imperfect
- Leviticus 22:24 You are not to present to the LORD an animal whose testicles are bruised, crushed, torn, or cut; you are not to sacrifice them in your land.
Things Forbidden as Whatever Was Unclean
- Leviticus 27:11 But if the vow involves any of the unclean animals that may not be brought as an offering to the LORD, the animal must be presented before the priest.
- Leviticus 27:27 But if it is among the unclean animals, then he may redeem it according to your valuation and add a fifth of its value. If it is not redeemed, then it shall be sold according to your valuation.
To be Made to God Alone
- Exodus 22:20 If anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.
- Judges 13:16 And the angel of the LORD replied, “Even if I stay, I will not eat your food. But if you prepare a burnt offering, offer it to the LORD.” For Manoah did not know that it was the angel of the LORD.
Trespass: Offered by Idolaters
- 1 Samuel 6:3 They replied, “If you return the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it away empty, but by all means return it to Him with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why His hand has not been lifted from you.”
- 1 Samuel 6:8 Take the ark of the LORD, set it on the cart, and in a chest beside it put the gold objects you are sending back to Him as a guilt offering. Then send the ark on its way,
- 1 Samuel 6:17–18 As a guilt offering to the LORD, the Philistines had sent back one gold tumor for each city: Ashdod, Gaza, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron. …
Trespass: Ordinances Concerning
- Leviticus 5:1 “If someone sins by failing to testify when he hears a public charge about something he has witnessed, whether he has seen it or learned of it, he shall bear the iniquity.
- Leviticus 6:1–7 And the LORD said to Moses, …
- Leviticus 7:1–7 “Now this is the law of the guilt offering, which is most holy: …
- Leviticus 14:10–22 On the eighth day he is to bring two unblemished male lambs, an unblemished ewe lamb a year old, a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with olive oil, and one log of olive oil. …
- Leviticus 15:15 The priest is to sacrifice them, one as a sin offering and the other as a burnt offering. In this way the priest will make atonement for the man before the LORD because of his discharge.
- Leviticus 15:29–30 On the eighth day she is to take two turtledoves or two young pigeons and bring them to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting. …
- Leviticus 19:21–22 The man, however, must bring a ram to the entrance to the Tent of Meeting as his guilt offering to the LORD. …
- Numbers 6:12 He must rededicate his time of separation to the LORD and bring a year-old male lamb as a guilt offering. But the preceding days shall not be counted, because his separation was defiled.
- Ezra 10:19 They pledged to send their wives away, and for their guilt they presented a ram from the flock as a guilt offering.
Trespass: To be Eaten by the Priests
- Leviticus 7:6–7 Every male among the priests may eat of it. It must be eaten in a holy place; it is most holy. …
- Leviticus 14:13 Then he is to slaughter the lamb in the sanctuary area where the sin offering and burnt offering are slaughtered. Like the sin offering, the guilt offering belongs to the priest; it is most holy.
- Numbers 18:9–10 A portion of the most holy offerings reserved from the fire will be yours. From all the offerings they render to Me as most holy offerings, whether grain offerings or sin offerings or guilt offerings, that part belongs to you and your sons. …
Unacceptable, Without Gratitude
- Psalm 50:8 I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
- Psalm 50:14 Sacrifice a thank offering to God, and fulfill your vows to the Most High.
Useless when not Accompanied by Genuine Piety
- 1 Samuel 15:22 But Samuel declared: “Does the LORD delight in burnt offerings and sacrifices as much as in obedience to His voice? Behold, obedience is better than sacrifice, and attentiveness is better than the fat of rams.
- Psalm 40:6 Sacrifice and offering You did not desire, but my ears You have opened. Burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not require.
- Psalm 50:8–14 I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me. …
- Psalm 51:16–17 For You do not delight in sacrifice, or I would bring it; You take no pleasure in burnt offerings. …
- Proverbs 21:3 To do righteousness and justice is more desirable to the LORD than sacrifice.
- Proverbs 21:27 The sacrifice of the wicked is detestable— how much more so when brought with ill intent!
- Isaiah 1:11–14 “What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. …
- Isaiah 40:16 Lebanon is not sufficient for fuel, nor its animals enough for a burnt offering.
- Isaiah 66:3 Whoever slaughters an ox is like one who slays a man; whoever sacrifices a lamb is like one who breaks a dog’s neck; whoever presents a grain offering is like one who offers pig’s blood; whoever offers frankincense is like one …
- Jeremiah 6:20 What use to Me is frankincense from Sheba or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable; your sacrifices do not please Me.”
- Jeremiah 7:21–23 This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Add your burnt offerings to your other sacrifices and eat the meat yourselves! …
- Jeremiah 14:12 Although they may fast, I will not listen to their cry; although they may offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will finish them off by sword and famine and plague.”
- Hosea 6:6 For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
- Hosea 8:13 Though they offer sacrifices as gifts to Me, and though they eat the meat, the LORD does not accept them. Now He will remember their iniquity and punish their sins: They will return to Egypt.
- Amos 5:21–24 “I hate, I despise your feasts! I cannot stand the stench of your solemn assemblies. …
- Micah 6:6–8 With what shall I come before the LORD when I bow before the God on high? Should I come to Him with burnt offerings, with year-old calves? …
- Mark 12:33 and to love Him with all your heart and with all your understanding and with all your strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself. This is more important than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.”
Vow
- Leviticus 7:16–17 If, however, the sacrifice he offers is a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, but the remainder may be eaten on the next day. …
- Leviticus 22:17–25 Then the LORD said to Moses, …
- Deuteronomy 23:21–23 If you make a vow to the LORD your God, do not be slow to keep it, because He will surely require it of you, and you will be guilty of sin. …
Wave: Belonged to the Priests
- Exodus 29:26–28 Take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s ordination and wave it before the LORD as a wave offering, and it will be your portion. …
- Leviticus 7:31 The priest is to burn the fat on the altar, but the breast belongs to Aaron and his sons.
- Leviticus 7:34 I have taken from the sons of Israel the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution of their peace offerings, and I have given them to Aaron the priest and his sons as a permanent portion from the sons of Israel.’”
- Leviticus 8:29 He also took the breast — Moses’ portion of the ram of ordination — and waved it before the LORD as a wave offering, as the LORD had commanded him.
- Leviticus 9:21 but he waved the breasts and the right thigh as a wave offering before the LORD, as Moses had commanded.
- Leviticus 23:20 The priest is to wave the lambs as a wave offering before the LORD, together with the bread of the firstfruits. The bread and the two lambs shall be holy to the LORD for the priest.
- Numbers 18:11 And this is yours as well: the offering of their gifts, along with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given this to you and your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. Every ceremonially clean person in your …
- Numbers 18:18 And their meat belongs to you, just as the breast and right thigh of the wave offering belong to you.
Wave: Ordinances Concerning
- Exodus 29:22 Take the fat from the ram, the fat tail, the fat covering the entrails, the lobe of the liver, both kidneys with the fat on them, and the right thigh (since this is a ram for ordination),
- Exodus 29:26–28 Take the breast of the ram of Aaron’s ordination and wave it before the LORD as a wave offering, and it will be your portion. …
- Leviticus 7:29–34 “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘Anyone who presents a peace offering to the LORD must bring it as his sacrifice to the LORD. …
- Leviticus 8:25–29 And Moses took the fat— the fat tail, all the fat that was on the entrails, the lobe of the liver, and both kidneys with their fat— as well as the right thigh. …
- Leviticus 9:19–21 They also brought the fat portions from the ox and the ram— the fat tail, the fat covering the entrails, the kidneys, and the lobe of the liver— …
- Leviticus 10:14–15 And you and your sons and daughters may eat the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution in a ceremonially clean place, because these portions have been assigned to you and your children from the peace …
- Leviticus 23:10–11 “Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest. …
- Leviticus 23:17–20 Bring two loaves of bread from your dwellings as a wave offering, each made from two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour, baked with leaven, as the firstfruits to the LORD. …
- Numbers 5:25 The priest shall take from her hand the grain offering for jealousy, wave it before the LORD, and bring it to the altar.
- Numbers 6:19–20 And the priest is to take the boiled shoulder from the ram, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and put them into the hands of the Nazirite who has just shaved the hair of his consecration. …
Wave: To be Eaten
- Leviticus 10:14–15 And you and your sons and daughters may eat the breast of the wave offering and the thigh of the contribution in a ceremonially clean place, because these portions have been assigned to you and your children from the peace …
- Numbers 18:11 And this is yours as well: the offering of their gifts, along with all the wave offerings of the Israelites. I have given this to you and your sons and daughters as a permanent statute. Every ceremonially clean person in your …
- Numbers 18:18–19 And their meat belongs to you, just as the breast and right thigh of the wave offering belong to you. …
- Numbers 18:31 And you and your households may eat the rest of it anywhere; it is the compensation for your work at the Tent of Meeting.
Wood: Fuel for the Temple
- Nehemiah 10:34 We have cast lots among the priests, Levites, and people for the donation of wood by our families at the appointed times each year. They are to bring it to the house of our God to burn on the altar of the LORD our God, as it is …
- Nehemiah 13:31 I also arranged for contributions of wood at the appointed times, and for the firstfruits. Remember me, O my God, with favor.
Related topics
SacrificesThe Burnt offeringAtonementThe Altar of Burnt-OfferingMeat-OfferingsSin-Offering
Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.