The Burnt offering
63 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
43 sections
- Abraham Tried by the Command to offer Isaac As
- After Great Mercies
- Ashes of, Collected at Foot of the Altar, and Conveyed
- At Consecration of Kings
- At Consecration of Levites
- At Consecration Priests
- At Dedication of Sacred Places
- At Purification of Women
- Before Going to War
- Blood of, Sprinkled Round About Upon the Altar
- Devotedness to God
- Every Morning and Evening
- Every Sabbath Day
- Guilt of offering, Except in the Place Appointed
- Guilt of Unauthorised Persons offering
- Guilt Transferred To, by Imposition of Hands
- If a Bird, the Blood Was Wrung out at the Side of the Altar
- Incapable of Removing Sin, and Reconciling to God
- Knowledge of God Better Than
- Love of God Better Than
- Obedience Better Than
- Offered by the Jews Before the Law
- Required to be for the People at Large, Killed and Prepared by the Levites
- Required to Be: A Male Without Blemish
- Required to Be: Entirely Burned
- Required to Be: Killed, If a Beast, by the Person Who Brought It
- Required to Be: Killed, If a Bird, by the Priest
- Required to Be: Offered by Priests Only
- Required to Be: Offered in Righteousness
- Required to Be: Presented at the Door of the Tabernacle
- Required to Be: Voluntary
- Skin of, Given to the Priests for Clothing
- Specially Acceptable
- The Day of Atonement
- The Fat of all Peace offerings Laid On, and Consumed With
- The First Day of Every Month
- The Most Ancient of all Sacrifices
- The Most Costly, No Adequate Tribute to God
- The offering of Christ
- The Seven Days of Unleavened Bread
- To be offered Only to the Lord
- To be Taken From: The Flock or Herd
- To be Taken From: The Fowls
Abraham Tried by the Command to offer Isaac As
- Genesis 22:1–24 Some time later God tested Abraham and said to him, “Abraham!” “Here I am,” he answered. …
After Great Mercies
- 1 Samuel 6:14 The cart came to the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh and stopped there near a large rock. The people chopped up the cart and offered the cows as a burnt offering to the LORD.
- 2 Samuel 24:22 Araunah said to David, “May my lord the king take whatever seems good to him and offer it up. Here are the oxen for a burnt offering and the threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.
- 2 Samuel 24:25 And there he built an altar to the LORD and offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. Then the LORD answered the prayers on behalf of the land, and the plague upon Israel was halted.
Ashes of, Collected at Foot of the Altar, and Conveyed
- Leviticus 6:11 Then he must take off his garments, put on other clothes, and carry the ashes outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place.
At Consecration of Kings
- 1 Chronicles 29:21–23 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. …
At Consecration of Levites
- 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.
At Consecration Priests
- 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.
At Dedication of Sacred Places
- Numbers 7:15 one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb a year old for a burnt offering;
- 1 Kings 8:64 On that same day the king consecrated the middle of the courtyard in front of the house of the LORD, and there he offered the burnt offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the peace offerings, since the bronze altar before …
At Purification of Women
- Leviticus 12:6 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 …
Before Going to War
- 1 Samuel 7:9 Then Samuel took a suckling lamb and offered it as a whole burnt offering to the LORD. He cried out to the LORD on behalf of Israel, and the LORD answered him.
Blood of, Sprinkled Round About Upon the Altar
- Leviticus 1:5 And he shall slaughter the young bull before the LORD, and Aaron’s sons the priests are to present the blood and splatter it on all sides of the altar at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 1:11 He shall slaughter it on the north side of the altar before the LORD, and Aaron’s sons the priests are to splatter its blood against the altar on all sides.
Devotedness to God
- 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.
Every Morning and Evening
- Exodus 29:38–42 This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old. …
Every Sabbath Day
- Numbers 28:9–10 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. …
Guilt of offering, Except in the Place Appointed
- 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 …
Guilt of Unauthorised Persons offering
- 1 Samuel 13:12–13 I thought, ‘Now the Philistines will descend upon me at Gilgal, and I have not sought the favor of the LORD.’ So I felt compelled to offer the burnt offering.” …
Guilt Transferred To, by Imposition of Hands
- 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.
- 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.
If a Bird, the Blood Was Wrung out at the Side of the Altar
- Leviticus 1:15 Then the priest shall bring it to the altar, twist off its head, and burn it on the altar; its blood should be drained out on the side of the altar.
Incapable of Removing Sin, and Reconciling to God
- 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 I do not rebuke you for your sacrifices, and your burnt offerings are ever before Me.
- Hebrews 10:6 In burnt offerings and sin offerings You took no delight.
Knowledge of God Better Than
- Hosea 6:6 For I desire mercy, not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Love of God Better Than
- 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.”
Obedience Better Than
- 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.
- 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! …
Offered by the Jews Before the Law
- Exodus 10:25 But Moses replied, “You must also provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings to present to the LORD our God.
- Exodus 24:5 Then he sent out some young men of Israel, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls as peace offerings to the LORD.
Required to be for the People at Large, Killed and Prepared by the Levites
- Ezekiel 44:11 Yet they shall be ministers in My sanctuary, having charge of the gates of the temple and ministering there. They shall slaughter the burnt offerings and other sacrifices for the people and stand before them to minister to them.
Required to Be: A Male Without Blemish
- 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 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: Entirely Burned
- Leviticus 1:8–9 Then Aaron’s sons the priests are to arrange the pieces, including the head and the fat, atop the burning wood on the altar. …
- Leviticus 1:12–13 He is to cut the animal into pieces, and the priest shall arrange them, including the head and fat, atop the burning wood that is on the altar. …
- Leviticus 6:9 “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.
Required to Be: Killed, If a Beast, by the Person Who Brought It
- Leviticus 1:5 And he shall slaughter the young bull before the LORD, and Aaron’s sons the priests are to present the blood and splatter it on all sides of the altar at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.
- Leviticus 1:11 He shall slaughter it on the north side of the altar before the LORD, and Aaron’s sons the priests are to splatter its blood against the altar on all sides.
Required to Be: Killed, If a Bird, by the Priest
- Leviticus 1:15 Then the priest shall bring it to the altar, twist off its head, and burn it on the altar; its blood should be drained out on the side of the altar.
Required to Be: Offered by Priests Only
- Leviticus 1:9 The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- Ezekiel 44:15 But the Levitical priests, who are descended from Zadok and who kept charge of My sanctuary when the Israelites went astray from Me, are to approach Me to minister before Me. They will stand before Me to offer Me fat and blood, …
Required to Be: Offered in Righteousness
- Psalm 51:19 Then You will delight in righteous sacrifices, in whole burnt offerings; then bulls will be offered on Your altar.
Required to Be: Presented 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.
- 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 12:14 you must offer them only in the place the LORD will choose in one of your tribal territories, and there you shall do all that I command you.
Required to Be: Voluntary
- 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 22:18–19 “Speak to Aaron and his sons and all the Israelites and tell them, ‘Any man of the house of Israel or any foreign resident who presents a gift for a burnt offering to the LORD, whether to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering, …
Skin of, Given to the Priests for Clothing
- Leviticus 7:8 As for the priest who presents a burnt offering for anyone, the hide of that offering belongs to him.
- Genesis 3:21 And the LORD God made garments of skin for Adam and his wife, and He clothed them.
Specially Acceptable
- Genesis 8:21 When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living …
- Leviticus 1:9 The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- Leviticus 1:13 The entrails and legs must be washed with water, and the priest shall present all of it and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- Leviticus 1:17 He shall tear it open by its wings, without dividing the bird completely. And the priest is to burn it on the altar atop the burning wood. It is a burnt offering, a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
The Day of Atonement
- Leviticus 16:3 This is how Aaron is to enter the Holy Place: with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.
- Leviticus 16:5 And he shall take from the congregation of Israel two male goats for a sin offering and one ram for a burnt offering.
- Numbers 29:8 Present as a pleasing aroma to the LORD a burnt offering of one young bull, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
The Fat of all Peace offerings Laid On, and Consumed With
- Leviticus 3:5 Then Aaron’s sons are to burn it on the altar atop the burnt offering that is on the burning wood, as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
- Leviticus 6:12 The fire on the altar shall be kept burning; it must not be extinguished. Every morning the priest is to add wood to the fire, arrange the burnt offering on it, and burn the fat portions of the peace offerings on it.
The First Day of Every Month
- Numbers 28:11 At the beginning of every month, you are to present to the LORD a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
The Most Ancient of all Sacrifices
- Genesis 4:4 while Abel brought the best portions of the firstborn of his flock. And the LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering,
- Genesis 8:20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD. And taking from every kind of clean animal and clean bird, he offered burnt offerings on the altar.
- Genesis 22:2 “Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
- Genesis 22:13 Then Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram in a thicket, caught by its horns. So he went and took the ram and offered it as a burnt offering in place of his son.
- Job 1:5 And when the days of feasting were over, Job would send for his children to purify them, rising early in the morning to offer burnt offerings for all of them. For Job thought, “Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in …
The Most Costly, No Adequate Tribute to God
- Isaiah 40:16 Lebanon is not sufficient for fuel, nor its animals enough for a burnt offering.
- Psalm 50:9–13 I have no need for a bull from your stall or goats from your pens, …
The offering of Christ
- 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 10:8–10 In the passage above He says, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor did You delight in them” (although they are offered according to the law). …
The Seven Days of Unleavened Bread
- Numbers 28:19 Present to the LORD a food offering, a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old, all unblemished.
- Numbers 28:24 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.
To be offered Only to the Lord
- 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.
To be Taken From: The Flock or Herd
- Leviticus 1:2 “Speak to the Israelites and tell them: When any of you brings an offering to the LORD, you may bring as your offering an animal from the herd or the flock.
To be Taken From: The Fowls
- Leviticus 1:14 If, instead, one’s offering to the LORD is a burnt offering of birds, he is to present a turtledove or a young pigeon.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.