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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 us through Jesus always offer a sacrifice of praise to God—this means speaking well of God, declaring his character.
The “sacrifices” that God wants are on the inside—the brokenness of repentance. God won't reject a broken and sorrowful heart.
When you sacrifice a peace offering to the Lord, make sure you do it correctly so God will accept you.
Why don't you go to Bethel and sin? Go to Gilgal and add to your sins even more? Offer your sacrifices in the morning, bring your tithes after three days.
When Jacob got up in the morning he took the stone he'd put under his head and set it upright as a stone pillar and poured some olive oil on it.He named the place “Bethel,” (previously it was called Luz).“Leave right away and go to Paddan-aram, to the home of Bethuel, your mother's father. Find yourself a wife there—a daughter of Laban, your mother's brother.Jacob also made a solemn promise, saying, “God, if you will be with me, and take care of me on my journey, and give me food to eat and clothes to wearso I can return safely to my father's home, then you Lord will be my God.This stone pillar that I've set up will be the house of God, and I will give you one tenth of all you give me.”
then the Lord your God will choose a place where he will live with you. That's where you are to bring all that I've ordered you—your burnt offerings and sacrifices, your tithes and freewill offerings, and all the special gifts that you promise to give to the Lord.
Noah built an altar, and sacrificed some of the clean animals and birds as a burnt offering.The Lord accepted the sacrifice, and said to himself, “I won't ever again curse the ground because of human beings, even though every single thought in their minds is evil from childhood. I won't ever destroy all life again as I have just done.
Make me an altar of earth, and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and peace offerings, your sheep, goats, and cattle. Wherever I decide to be worshiped, I will come to you and bless you.
“Instruct the Israelites to bring me an offering. You are to receive my offering from everyone who willingly wants to give.
All your men must come before the Lord your God in the place He will choose three times every year: the Festival of Bread without Yeast, the Festival of Weeks, and the Festival of Shelters. No one should come before the Lord without an offering.Each of you is to bring whatever gift you can, depending on how much the Lord your God has blessed you.
They brought to the Lord an offering of six covered wagons and twelve oxen. Each leader gave an ox, and two leaders shared in giving a wagon. They presented them in front of the Tabernacle.
“Go and speak to the Israelites and tell them: When you present an offering to the Lord, you may bring as your offering an animal from the herd of cattle or the flock of sheep or goats.
The Lord called Moses and spoke to him from the Tent of Meeting, saying,If your offering is a burnt offering from a flock, either sheep or goats, you must offer a male without any defects.You are to kill it on the north side of the altar in the Lord's presence, and Aaron's sons, the priests, are to take the blood and sprinkle it on all sides of the altar.Then you are to cut it into pieces, and the priest shall carefully place the pieces, including the head and the fat, on the wood burning on the altar.You shall wash the insides and legs with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a food offering, to be accepted by the Lord.If your offering to the Lord is a burnt offering of birds, you are to offer a turtledove or a young pigeon.The priest shall take it to the altar, twist off its head, and burn it on the altar. Its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar.He must remove the crop and the feathers, and throw them to the east side of the altar into the ash pile.He shall tear it open by its wings, but not completely apart. The priest is to burn it on the altar on the burning wood. It is a burnt offering, a food offering, to be accepted by the Lord.”
Then burn all of the ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the Lord to be accepted by him.
If any other Israelite sins unintentionally and does what is not permitted by any of the commandments of the Lord his God, he is guilty.When he realizes his sin, he must bring a female goat without defects as his offering for that sin.He must put his hand on the head of the sin offering and kill it at the place of the burnt offering.If it is the high priest who sins and brings guilt on everyone, he must present to the Lord a young bull without defects as a sin offering for his sin.Then the priest is to take some of its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and pour out the rest of the blood at the bottom of the altar.He shall remove all its fat like the fat of the peace offerings and burn it on the altar and it will be accepted by the Lord. In this way the priest will make the man's sin right, and he will be forgiven.
Every day you are to sacrifice a bull as a sin offering for forgiveness. When you do this the altar needs to be purified. Anoint it to make it holy.For seven days you shall purify the altar and consecrate it. Then the altar will become completely holy, and everything that touches the altar will become holy.
If your offering is a burnt offering from a herd of cattle, you must offer a male without any defects. Bring it to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting so it can be accepted before the Lord.Put your hand on the head of the burnt offering, so it can be accepted on your behalf to make you right.
If you become guilty in one of these ways, you must confess your sin,and you must take your guilt offering of a female lamb or goat to the Lord as a sin offering for your sin. The priest will make your sin right.
What use are all your many sacrifices to me? asks the Lord. I am sick and tired of your burnt offerings of rams and the fat of sacrificial animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats!
You shall wash the insides and legs with water, and the priest shall burn all of it on the altar as a burnt offering, a food offering, to be accepted by the Lord.
That's why when Christ came into the world he said, “You didn't want sacrifices or offerings, but you did prepare a body for me.
The fire on the altar must be kept burning—don't let it go out. Each morning the priest is to add wood to the fire, carefully place the burnt offering on it, and burn the fat parts of the peace offerings on it.The fire must be kept burning on the altar continually—don't let it go out.
This regulation applies to you for all time. The tenth day of the seventh month is a day of self-denial for you. You are not to do any work. This applies to all who are native-born and also any foreigner who living among you,These are the instructions as to how Aaron is to enter the sanctuary. He is to come with a young bull for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering.for on this day the process of making you right will be done, to make you clean from all your sins, clean before the Lord.
He is to wash himself with water in the sanctuary and put on his own clothes. Then he will go out and sacrifice his burnt offering and the people's burnt offering that makes him and the people right.
Life is in the body's blood. I have given it to you so that by putting it on the altar your lives can be made right, for it is the lifeblood that makes people's lives right.
I will praise God's character in song; I will say how incredible he is and how thankful I am. The Lord is happier with this than with offering animals as sacrifices: cattle, or bulls with horns and hooves.
There they are to present an offering to the Lord of a one-year-old male lamb without defects as a burnt offering, a one-year-old female lamb without defects as a sin offering, and a ram without defects as a peace offering.
The law is just a shadow of the good that was to come, and not the actual reality. So it can never through the repeated sacrifices offered year after year make right those who come to worship God.through which we all are made holy through Jesus Christ offering his body once and for all time.Every priest officiates in the services day after day, again and again offering the same sacrifices that can never remove sins.But this Priest, after he had offered for sins a single sacrifice that lasts forever, sat down at God's right hand.Now he waits until all his enemies are conquered, becoming like a footstool for him.For by a single sacrifice he has set right forever those who are being made holy.As the Holy Spirit also tells us, for having said,“This is the agreement that I will make with them later on, says the Lord. I will put my laws inside them, and I will write them in their minds.” Then he adds,“I won't remember their sins and lawlessness anymore.”Once free from such things, sin offerings are no longer needed.Now we have the confidence, brothers and sisters, to enter the Most Holy Place by the blood of Jesus.Otherwise wouldn't the sacrifices have stopped being offered? If the worshipers had been made clean once and for all, they wouldn't have had guilty consciences any longer.Through his life and death, he opened up a brand-new, living way through the veil to God.Since we have such a great priest placed in charge over the house of God,let us come close to God with sincere minds, totally trusting in him. Our minds have been sprinkled to purify them from our evil way of thinking, and our bodies have been washed clean by pure water.So let us hold onto the hope we're telling others about, never hesitating, for God who promised is trustworthy.Let's think about how we can motivate one another to love and to do what is good.We should not give up meeting together, as some have done. In fact we should be encouraging one another, especially as you see the End approaching. For if we deliberately go on sinning after we've understood the truth, there's no longer any sacrifice for sins.All that's left is fear, expecting the impending judgment and the terrible fire that destroys those who are hostile to God.Someone who rejects the law of Moses is put to death without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses.How much worse do you think someone will deserve their punishment if they have trampled underfoot the Son of God, if they have disregarded the blood that sealed the agreement and makes us holy, treating it as ordinary and trivial, and have abused the Spirit of grace?But in fact those sacrifices remind people of sins year after year,We know God, and he said, “I will make sure that justice is done; I will give people what they deserve.” He also said, “The Lord will judge his people.”It's terrifying to come under the power of the living God.Just remember the past when, after you understood the truth, you experienced a great deal of suffering.Sometimes you were made a spectacle of, being insulted and attacked; at other times you stood in solidarity with those who were suffering.You showed your sympathy for those in prison, and took it cheerfully when your possessions were confiscated, knowing that you have something better coming that will truly last.So don't lose your confidence in God—it will be richly rewarded.You need to be patient so that having done what God wants, you'll receive what he has promised.“In just a little while he will come, as he said—he won't delay.Those who do what is right will live by trusting in God, and if they draw back from their commitment, I won't be pleased with them.”But we're not the kind of people who draw back and end up being lost. We are those who trust in God to save us.because it's impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to remove sins.
When you bring an offering to the Lord from your herd or flock (whether it's a burnt offering, a sacrifice to fulfill a promise you made, or a freewill or festival offering) that will be acceptable to the Lord,
I am honored by nations from the farthest east to the distant west; everywhere people make offerings to me of incense and pure sacrifices. I am honored among the nations, says the Lord Almighty.
Present your burnt offerings, the meat and blood, on the altar of the Lord your God. The blood of your other sacrifices is to be poured out beside the altar of the Lord your God, but you are allowed to eat the meat.
“Does the Lord prefer burnt offerings and sacrifices, or obedience to what he says?” Samuel asked. “Listen! Obedience is better than sacrifice. Paying attention is more important than offering the fat of rams.
“When you want to give a peace offering and you offer an animal from a herd of cattle, whether male or female, you must present one without any defects before the Lord.both kidneys with the fat on them by the loins, and the best part of the liver, which you are to remove together with the kidneys.Then the priest is to burn this on the altar as a food offering, a food offering to the Lord.If your offering is a goat, you are to present it before the Lord.Put your hand on its head and kill it in front of the Tent of Meeting. Then Aaron's sons the priests will sprinkle the blood on all sides of the altar.From your offering you are to present a food offering to the Lord made up of all the fat that covers the insides,both kidneys with the fat on them by the loins, and the best part of the liver, which you are to remove together with the kidneys.Then the priest is to burn this on the altar as a food offering, an offering to the Lord using fire. All the fat is for the Lord.You must not eat any fat or any blood. This regulation is for all time and for all future generations everywhere you live.”
Tell them you are to present to the Lord every day two male lambs a year old as a continual burnt offering.Also present a male goat as an offering to make you right.Present these offerings along with their drink offerings in addition to the continual burnt offering and its grain offering. Make sure the animals sacrificed have no defects.”Offer one lamb in the morning and one in the evening before it gets dark,
On that same day, the king dedicated the center of the courtyard in front of the Lord's Temple. There he presented burnt offerings, grain offerings, and the fat of the friendship offerings, since the bronze altar in the Lord's presence was too small to hold all these offerings.
When Solomon finished praying, fire came down from heaven and burned up the burnt offering and the sacrifices, and the glory of the Lord filled the Temple.
You don't want sacrifices and offerings. Now you have helped me understand—you're not asking for burnt offerings or sin offerings. Then I said, “Look! Here I am! I've come to do what is written about me in the scroll of the Book.I am pleased to do your will, my God—your Law guides my mind.”
What use are all your many sacrifices to me? asks the Lord. I am sick and tired of your burnt offerings of rams and the fat of sacrificial animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats!When you come to appear before me in worship, who asked you to proudly tramp around my courts?Don't bring me any more meaningless offerings; your incense is offensive to me. Your new moon festivals and Sabbath observations and your calling of special religious meetings—I can't stand them because they're evil, as are your solemn assemblies.
When the prince decides to make a freewill offering to the Lord, whether it's a burnt offering or a peace offering, the east gate is to be opened for him. He shall offer his burnt offering or peace offering in the same way he does on the Sabbath. When he leaves, the gate must be closed after him.
You don't want sacrifices and offerings. Now you have helped me understand—you're not asking for burnt offerings or sin offerings.
For sacrifices don't make you happy, or I would bring one; burnt offerings aren't what pleases you.The “sacrifices” that God wants are on the inside—the brokenness of repentance. God won't reject a broken and sorrowful heart.
According to ceremonial law, almost everything is made clean with blood, and without shedding blood nothing is made ritually free from the stain of sin.
I will come to your Temple with burnt offerings; I will fulfill my promises to you,the promises I made when I was in trouble.I will sacrifice burnt offerings to you of fattened livestock—the smoke of the sacrifice of rams, offerings of bulls and goats. Selah.
The Lord is God, and his goodness shines on us. Branches in hand, start the procession up towards the altar.
However, it was the Lord's will for him to be crushed and to suffer, for when he gives his life as a guilt offering he will see his descendants, he will have a long life, and what the Lord wants will be achieved through him.
When I led your forefathers out of Egypt I didn't just give them instructions about burnt offerings and sacrifices,This is the commandment I gave them: Obey me, and I will be your God, and you will be my people. Follow everything I have commanded you to do, so that all will go well for you.
I want your true love, not your sacrifices; I want you to know me, not your burnt offerings.
There they made a sacrifice, as God's law also states, of “a pair of turtle doves or two young pigeons.”
What should I take with me when I approach the Lord, when I bow down before the God of heaven? Shall I come before him with burnt offerings, with calves a year old?Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams, or ten thousand rivers of olive oil? Shall I sacrifice my firstborn child for my rebellion, my own flesh and blood for the sins I have committed?The Lord has told you what is good, and what the Lord asks from you: to do what is right, to love kindness, and to walk in humility with your God.
So even if I pour out my life as a sacrifice and offering so you may trust in God, I'm happy for it, and I'm glad together with all of you,
Go and discover what this means: ‘I want mercy, not sacrifice.’ For I didn't come to call those who do what's right—I came to call sinners.”
If you'd known the meaning of this Scripture, ‘I want mercy, and not sacrifice,’ you wouldn't have condemned those who are innocent.
I've been crucified with Christ— so it's no longer I who lives, but it is Christ living in me. The life I now live in this body, I live by trusting in the Son of God, who loved me, and who gave himself for me.
We are to love him with all our heart, all our understanding, and all our strength, and we are to love our neighbor as ourselves. This is far more important than offerings and sacrifices.”
The next day John saw Jesus approaching him, and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
So I encourage you, my brothers and sisters, because of God's compassion for you, to dedicate your bodies as a living offering that is holy and pleasing to God. This is the logical way to worship.
“Bring me those who trust in me—those who confirmed the agreement with me through sacrifice.”
Live in love, just as Christ loved you. He gave himself for us, a gift and sacrificial offering to God like a sweet-smelling perfume.
Otherwise Christ would have had to suffer many times since the creation of the world. No: just this one time at the end of the present age he came to remove sin by sacrificing himself.
For I have everything, more than I need! I'm thankful to receive from Epaphroditus the things you sent. They're like a sweet-smelling sacrifice that pleases God and that he approves of.
If you're at the altar making an offering, and remember that your brother has something against you,leave your offering on the altar and go and make peace with him first, and afterwards come back and make your offering.
He didn't enter through the blood of goats and calves, but through his own blood. He entered once, for all time, into the Most Holy Place, setting us free forever.
how much more does the blood of Christ—who offered himself in his sinless life to God through the eternal Spirit—clean your consciences from your past sinful lives so you can serve the living God?
But this Priest, after he had offered for sins a single sacrifice that lasts forever, sat down at God's right hand.
So let us through Jesus always offer a sacrifice of praise to God—this means speaking well of God, declaring his character.And don't forget to do what is good, and to share with others what you have, for God is pleased when you make such sacrifices.
You already know that you were not set free from your pointless way of living that you inherited from your forefathers by things that don't have lasting value, like silver or gold.You were set free by the costly blood of Christ, who was like a lamb with no flaw or defect.
you also become like living stones, being built into a spiritual house. You are a holy priesthood that offers spiritual sacrifices that God welcomes through Jesus Christ.
They sang a new song, “You are worthy to take the scroll and open its seals, for you were slain and with your blood you redeemed for God people from every tribe, language, people, and nation.
Then another angel came and stood at the altar. He had a golden censer and he was given a large quantity of incense to add to the prayers of all the saints on the golden altar that stands in front of the throne.The smoke of the incense rose together with the prayers of the saints before God from the hand of the angel.