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79 Bible Verses about Sacrifices and Burnt Offerings
In the Bible, offering is all about showing gratitude to God. Back in Moses' time, God taught the Israelites about different kinds of offerings. They were to offer a portion of their wealth as thanks for the land God had given them. These offerings were usually things like wheat, barley, oil, and animals – basically a tenth of their income, or what we call a tithe.
Leviticus talks about offerings required when someone was dishonest, maybe about something they were supposed to be looking after, or if they stole, cheated, lied about lost property, or broke an oath. There were five main types of offerings: burnt offerings, grain offerings, peace offerings, sin offerings, and guilt offerings.
Throughout the Bible, we see different ways to give offerings. Sometimes it's to make things right with someone you've wronged, and sometimes it's simply to say "thank you" to God and seek His blessing. The reasons and situations are all over the map, but what really matters to God is the heart behind the offering – a genuine desire to connect with Him.
So let’s continually offer up a sacrifice of praise through him, which is the fruit from our lips that confess his name.
A broken spirit is my sacrifice, God. You won’t despise a heart, God, that is broken and crushed.
When you sacrifice a communal sacrifice of well-being to the LORD, offer it so that it will be accepted on your account.
Come to Bethel—and commit a crime; multiply crimes at Gilgal. Bring your sacrifices every morning, your tenth-part gifts every three days.
After Jacob got up early in the morning, he took the stone that he had put near his head, set it up as a sacred pillar, and poured oil on the top of it.He named that sacred place Bethel, though Luz was the city’s original name.Jacob made a solemn promise: “If God is with me and protects me on this trip I’m taking, and gives me bread to eat and clothes to wear,and I return safely to my father’s household, then the LORD will be my God.This stone that I’ve set up as a sacred pillar will be God’s house, and of everything you give me I will give a tenth back to you.”
At that point, you must bring all that I am commanding you, your entirely burned offerings, your sacrifices, your tenth-part gifts, your contributions, and all your best payments that you solemnly promised to the LORD, to the location the LORD your God selects for his name to reside.
But watch yourself! Make sure you don’t offer up your entirely burned offerings in just any place you see.
Noah built an altar to the LORD. He took some of the clean large animals and some of the clean birds, and placed entirely burned offerings on the altar.The LORD smelled the pleasing scent, and the LORD thought to himself, I will not curse the fertile land anymore because of human beings since the ideas of the human mind are evil from their youth. I will never again destroy every living thing as I have done.
Make for me an altar from fertile soil on which to sacrifice your entirely burned offerings, your well-being sacrifices, your sheep, and your oxen. I will come to you and bless you in every place where I make sure my name is remembered.
Tell the Israelites to collect gift offerings for me. Receive my gift offerings from everyone who freely wants to give.
Three times a year every male among you must appear before the presence of the LORD your God in the location he will select: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Booths. They must not appear before the LORD’s presence empty-handed.Each one should have his gift in hand, in precise measure with the blessing the LORD your God gives you.
They brought their offerings before the LORD: six covered wagons and twelve oxen—a wagon for every two chiefs, and an ox for every chief. They brought them near before the dwelling.
Anyone who offers sacrifices to any god, other than the LORD alone, should be destroyed.
Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When any of you present a livestock offering to the LORD, you can present it from either the herd or the flock.
Then the LORD called to Moses and said to him from the meeting tent,If the offering is an entirely burned offering from the flock—whether sheep or goat—you must present a flawless male.You must slaughter it on the north side of the altar before the LORD. Aaron’s sons the priests will toss its blood against every side of the altar.Once it has been cut into pieces, including the head and the fat, the priest will arrange these out on the wood that is on the altar fire,but its insides and lower legs must be washed with water. Then the priest will present all of it and completely burn it on the altar. It is an entirely burned offering, a food gift of soothing smell to the LORD.If the offering for the LORD is an entirely burned offering from the birds, you can present your offering from the doves or pigeons.The priest will bring it to the altar. He will tear off its head and completely burn it on the altar. Its blood will be drained against the side of the altar.Then the priest will remove its throat along with its contents and throw it by the east side of the altar, into the place for the ashes.He will then tear the bird open by its wings, without splitting it. The priest will completely burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the altar fire. It is an entirely burned offering, a food gift of soothing smell to the LORD.Speak to the Israelites and say to them: When any of you present a livestock offering to the LORD, you can present it from either the herd or the flock.If the offering is an entirely burned offering from the herd, you must present a flawless male, bringing it to the meeting tent’s entrance for its acceptance before the LORD.You must press your hand on the head of the entirely burned offering so that it will be accepted for you, to make reconciliation for you.Then you will slaughter the bull before the LORD. Aaron’s sons the priests will present the blood and toss it against every side of the altar at the meeting tent’s entrance.Then the entirely burned offering will be skinned and cut up into pieces.The sons of Aaron the priest will light the altar and lay wood on the fire.Then Aaron’s sons the priests will arrange the pieces, the head, and the fat on the wood that is on the altar fire,but the animal’s insides and lower legs must be washed with water. The priest will then completely burn all of it on the altar as an entirely burned offering, a food gift of soothing smell to the LORD.
Then turn the entire ram into smoke by burning it on the altar. It is an entirely burned offering for the LORD, a soothing smell, a food gift for the LORD.
If any ordinary person sins unintentionally by breaking one of the LORD’s commands, doing something that shouldn’t be done, and becomes guilty of sin—once the sin they committed is made known to them—they must bring as their offering a flawless female goat because of the sin that was committed.They will press their hand on the head of the purification offering. It will be slaughtered at the place for the entirely burned offerings.The priest will take some of its blood and, using his finger, will put it on the horns of the altar of entirely burned offerings. But he will pour all the rest of the blood out at the base of the altar.He will remove all of its fat, just as the fat from a communal sacrifice of well-being is removed. Then the priest will completely burn it on the altar as a soothing smell to the LORD. In this way, the priest will make reconciliation for them, and they will be forgiven.
Every day you should offer a bull as a purification offering for reconciliation. You should remove the sin from the altar through a ritual of reconciliation, and you should anoint the altar to make it holy.Seven days you should perform the ritual of reconciliation for the altar and make it holy. In this way, the altar will become most holy, and whatever touches the altar will also become holy.
If the offering is an entirely burned offering from the herd, you must present a flawless male, bringing it to the meeting tent’s entrance for its acceptance before the LORD.You must press your hand on the head of the entirely burned offering so that it will be accepted for you, to make reconciliation for you.
at that point, when you have become guilty of sin in one of these ways, you must confess how you have sinnedand bring to the LORD as compensation for the sin that was committed a female from the flock, either a sheep or goat, as a purification offering. The priest will then make reconciliation for you, to remove your sin.
What should I think about all your sacrifices? says the LORD. I’m fed up with entirely burned offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts. I don’t want the blood of bulls, lambs, and goats.
but the animal’s insides and lower legs must be washed with water. The priest will then completely burn all of it on the altar as an entirely burned offering, a food gift of soothing smell to the LORD.
Therefore, when he comes into the world he says, “You didn’t want a sacrifice or an offering, ” “but you prepared a body for me; ”
The altar fire must be kept burning; it must not go out. Each morning the priest will burn wood on it, will lay out the entirely burned offering on it, and will completely burn the fat of the well-being offering on it.A continuous fire must be kept burning on the altar; it must not go out.
The priest will dress in his linen robe, with linen undergarments on his body. Because the fire will have devoured the entirely burned offering on the altar, he must remove the ashes and place them beside the altar.Command Aaron and his sons: This is the Instruction for the entirely burned offering—the entirely burned offering that must remain on the altar hearth all night until morning, while the fire is kept burning.
This will be a permanent rule for you: On the tenth day of the seventh month, you must deny yourselves. You must not do any work—neither the citizen nor the immigrant who lives among you.On that day reconciliation will be made for you in order to cleanse you. You will be clean before the LORD from all your sins.
He will bathe his body in water in a holy place and dress in his priestly clothing. Then he will go out and perform the entirely burned offerings for himself and for the people. In this way, he will make reconciliation for himself and for the people.
A creature’s life is in the blood. I have provided you the blood to make reconciliation for your lives on the altar, because the blood reconciles by means of the life.
I will praise God’s name with song; I will magnify him with thanksbecause that is more pleasing to the LORD than an ox, more pleasing than a young bull with full horns and hooves.
and offer a gift to the LORD, consisting of a flawless one-year-old male lamb as an entirely burned offering, a flawless one-year-old female lamb as a purification offering, one flawless ram as a well-being sacrifice,
The Law is a shadow of the good things that are coming, not the real things themselves. It never can perfect the ones who are trying to draw near to God through the same sacrifices that are offered continually every year.Otherwise, wouldn’t they have stopped being offered? If the people carrying out their religious duties had been completely cleansed once, no one would have been aware of sin anymore.Instead, these sacrifices are a reminder of sin every year,because it’s impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.
and you make a food gift to the LORD as a soothing smell for the LORD from the herd or the flock—whether an entirely burned offering, or a sacrifice to fulfill a solemn promise, or a spontaneous gift, or at your sacred seasons—
Nevertheless, from sunrise to sunset, my name will be great among the nations. Incense and a pure grain offering will be offered everywhere in my name, because my name is great among the nations, says the LORD of heavenly forces.
offering up your entirely burned sacrifices—both meat and blood—on the LORD your God’s altar. The blood from your sacrifices must be poured out on the LORD your God’s altar, but you are allowed to eat the meat.
Then Samuel replied, “Does the LORD want entirely burned offerings and sacrifices as much as obedience to the LORD? Listen to this: obeying is better than sacrificing, paying attention is better than fat from rams,
If the offering is a communal sacrifice of well-being, the one who offers the herd animal—whether it is male or female—must present a flawless specimen before the LORD.the two kidneys and the fat around them at the loins; and the lobe on the liver, which should be removed with the kidneys.The priest will then completely burn all of this on the altar as food—as a food gift for the LORD.If the offering is a goat, you must present it before the LORD.You must press your hand on its head and slaughter it before the meeting tent. Aaron’s sons will toss its blood against every side of the altar.Then you may present as your offering—a food gift for the LORD—the fat that covers and surrounds the insides;the two kidneys and the fat around them at the loins; and the lobe on the liver, which should be removed with the kidneys.The priest will then completely burn all of this on the altar as food—as a food gift for a soothing smell. All fat belongs to the LORD.This is a permanent rule for your future generations, wherever you live: you must not eat any fat or blood.You must press your hand on the head of the offering and slaughter it at the meeting tent’s entrance. Aaron’s sons the priests will toss the blood against every side of the altar.Then you can offer a food gift to the LORD from the communal sacrifice of well-being: the fat that covers and surrounds the insides;the two kidneys and the fat around them at the loins; and the lobe on the liver, which should be removed with the kidneys.Aaron’s sons will completely burn all of this on the altar—along with the entirely burned offering on the wood that is on the altar fire—as a food gift of soothing smell to the LORD.If the offering for a communal sacrifice of well-being for the LORD is from the flock—whether it is male or female—you must present a flawless specimen.If you present a sheep as the offering, you must present it before the LORD.You must press your hand on the head of the offering and slaughter it before the meeting tent. Aaron’s sons will toss the blood against every side of the altar.Then you may offer the fat from the communal sacrifice of well-being as a food gift for the LORD: the whole fat tail, which should be removed close to the tailbone; the fat that covers and surrounds the insides;
You will say to them: This is the food gift that you must present to the LORD: two flawless one-year-old lambs as the regular entirely burned offering every day.One lamb you will offer in the morning and the second at twilight,
On that day the king made holy the middle of the courtyard in front of the LORD’s temple. He had to offer the entirely burned offerings, grain offerings, and the fat of well-being sacrifices there, because the bronze altar that was in the LORD’s presence was too small to contain the entirely burned offerings, the grain offerings, and the fat of the well-being sacrifices.
As soon as Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and consumed the entirely burned offering and the sacrifices, while the LORD’s glory filled the temple.
You don’t relish sacrifices or offerings; you don’t require entirely burned offerings or compensation offerings— but you have given me ears!So I said, “Here I come! I’m inscribed in the written scroll.I want to do your will, my God. Your Instruction is deep within me.”
Let God recall your many grain offerings; let him savor your entirely burned offerings. Selah
What should I think about all your sacrifices? says the LORD. I’m fed up with entirely burned offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed beasts. I don’t want the blood of bulls, lambs, and goats.When you come to appear before me, who asked this from you, this trampling of my temple’s courts?Stop bringing worthless offerings. Your incense repulses me. New moon, sabbath, and the calling of an assembly— I can’t stand wickedness with celebration!
Whenever the prince makes a spontaneous gift to the LORD, whether it is an entirely burned offering or a well-being sacrifice, the gate facing east will be opened for him, and he will present his entirely burned offering and well-being sacrifices, just as he does on the Sabbath day. When he leaves, the gate will be closed after he has gone out.
You don’t relish sacrifices or offerings; you don’t require entirely burned offerings or compensation offerings— but you have given me ears!
You don’t want sacrifices. If I gave an entirely burned offering, you wouldn’t be pleased.A broken spirit is my sacrifice, God. You won’t despise a heart, God, that is broken and crushed.
Almost everything is cleansed by blood, according to the Law’s regulations, and there is no forgiveness without blood being shed.
So I’ll enter your house with entirely burned offerings. I’ll keep the promises I made to you,the ones my lips uttered, the ones my mouth spoke when I was in deep trouble.I will offer the best burned offerings to you along with the smoke of sacrificed rams. I will offer both bulls and goats. Selah
The LORD is God! He has shined a light on us! So lead the festival offering with ropes all the way to the horns of the altar.
But the LORD wanted to crush him and to make him suffer. If his life is offered as restitution, he will see his offspring; he will enjoy long life. The LORD’s plans will come to fruition through him.
On the day I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt, I didn’t say a thing—I gave no instructions—about entirely burned offerings or sacrifices.Rather, this is what I required of them: Obey me so that I may become your God and you may become my people. Follow the path I mark out for you so that it may go well with you.
I desire faithful love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God instead of entirely burned offerings.
They offered a sacrifice in keeping with what’s stated in the Law of the Lord, A pair of turtledoves or two young pigeons.
With what should I approach the LORD and bow down before God on high? Should I come before him with entirely burned offerings, with year-old calves?Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, with many torrents of oil? Should I give my oldest child for my crime; the fruit of my body for the sin of my spirit?He has told you, human one, what is good and what the LORD requires from you: to do justice, embrace faithful love, and walk humbly with your God.
But even if I am poured out like a drink offering upon the altar of service for your faith, I am glad. I’m glad with all of you.
Go and learn what this means: I want mercy and not sacrifice. I didn’t come to call righteous people, but sinners.”
If you had known what this means, I want mercy and not sacrifice, you wouldn’t have condemned the innocent.
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. And the life that I now live in my body, I live by faith, indeed, by the faithfulness of God’s Son, who loved me and gave himself for me.
And to love God with all of the heart, a full understanding, and all of one’s strength, and to love one’s neighbor as oneself is much more important than all kinds of entirely burned offerings and sacrifices.”
The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look! The Lamb of God who takes away the sin of the world!
So, brothers and sisters, because of God’s mercies, I encourage you to present your bodies as a living sacrifice that is holy and pleasing to God. This is your appropriate priestly service.
Live your life with love, following the example of Christ, who loved us and gave himself for us. He was a sacrificial offering that smelled sweet to God.
If that were so, then Jesus would have to suffer many times since the foundation of the world. Instead, he has now appeared once at the end of the ages to get rid of sin by sacrificing himself.
I now have plenty and it is more than enough. I am full to overflowing because I received the gifts that you sent from Epaphroditus. Those gifts give off a fragrant aroma, an acceptable sacrifice that pleases God.
Therefore, if you bring your gift to the altar and there remember that your brother or sister has something against you,leave your gift at the altar and go. First make things right with your brother or sister and then come back and offer your gift.
He entered the holy of holies once for all by his own blood, not by the blood of goats or calves, securing our deliverance for all time.
how much more will the blood of Jesus wash our consciences clean from dead works in order to serve the living God? He offered himself to God through the eternal Spirit as a sacrifice without any flaw.
We have been made holy by God’s will through the offering of Jesus Christ’s body once for all.because it’s impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.Therefore, when he comes into the world he says, “You didn’t want a sacrifice or an offering, ” “but you prepared a body for me; ”“you weren’t pleased with entirely burned offerings or a sin offering. ”“So then I said, ” “Look, I’ve come to do your will, God.” “This has been written about me in the scroll.” He says above, “You didn’t want ”and “you weren’t pleased with a sacrifice or an offering ”or “with entirely burned offerings or a purification offering,” which are offered because the Law requires them.Then he said, “Look, I’ve come to do your will”. He puts an end to the first to establish the second.
But when this priest offered one sacrifice for sins for all time, he sat down at the right side of God.
So let’s continually offer up a sacrifice of praise through him, which is the fruit from our lips that confess his name.Don’t forget to do good and to share what you have because God is pleased with these kinds of sacrifices.
Live in this way, knowing that you were not liberated by perishable things like silver or gold from the empty lifestyle you inherited from your ancestors.Instead, you were liberated by the precious blood of Christ, like that of a flawless, spotless lamb.
You yourselves are being built like living stones into a spiritual temple. You are being made into a holy priesthood to offer up spiritual sacrifices that are acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.
They took up a new song, saying, “You are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals, because you were slain, and by your blood you purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.
Another angel came and stood at the altar, and he held a gold bowl for burning incense. He was given a large amount of incense, in order to offer it on behalf of the prayers of all the saints on the gold altar in front of the throne.The smoke of the incense offered for the prayers of the saints rose up before God from the angel’s hand.