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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.
Therefore by him offer we a sacrifice of praising evermore to God, that is to say, the fruit of lips acknowledging to his name.
A sacrifice to God is a spirit troubled, that is, sorry for sin; God, thou shalt not despise a contrite heart, and made meek.
Come ye to Bethel, and do ye wickedly; to Gilgal, and multiply your trespassing; and offer ye early your sacrifices, in three days your tithes.
Therefore Jacob rose early, and took the stone which he had put under his head, and raised it up into a title, or sign, and poured out oil above.And he called the name of that city Bethel, which was called Luz before.but go thou, and walk forth into Mesopotamia of Syria, to the house of Bethuel, [the] father of thy mother, and take to thee from thence a wife of the daughters of Laban, thine uncle.Also Jacob avowed a vow, and said, If God is with me, and keepeth me in the way in which I go, and giveth to me loaves to eat, and clothes to be clothed with,and I turn again in prosperity to the house of my father, the Lord shall be into God to me.And this stone, which I raised into a title, shall be called the house of God; and I shall offer tithes to thee of all things which thou shalt give to me.
In the place which your Lord God choose that his name be therein. Thither ye shall bear all things, which I command to you, burnt sacrifices, and sacrifices, and the tithes, and the first fruits of your hands, and whatever is the best thing in gifts, which ye avow to the Lord.
Forsooth Noah builded an altar to the Lord, and he took of all clean beasts and birds, and offered burnt sacrifices on the altar.And the Lord savoured the odour of sweetness, and said to him, I shall no more curse the earth for men, for the wit and thought of man’s heart be ready, either prone, into evil from young waxing age; therefore I shall no more smite each living soul, as I did;
Ye shall make an altar of earth to me, and ye shall offer thereon your burnt sacrifices, and peaceable sacrifices, your sheep, and oxen; in each place in which the mind of my name shall be, I shall come to thee, and I shall bless thee.
Speak thou to the sons of Israel, that they take to me the first fruits; of each man that offereth willfully, ye shall take those [things].
In three times by the year all thy male kind shall appear in the sight of thy Lord, in the place which he choose, in the solemnity of therf loaves, and in the solemnity of weeks, and in the solemnity of tabernacles. A man shall not appear void before the Lord;but each man shall offer after that that he hath, by the blessing of his Lord God, that he gave to him.
offered gifts before the Lord, six wains covered, with twelve oxen; two dukes offered one wain, and each offered one ox. And they offered those wains before the tabernacle.
Speak thou to the sons of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, A man of you, that offereth to the Lord a sacrifice of beasts, that is, of oxen and of sheep, and offereth slain sacrifices,
Forsooth the Lord called Moses, and spake to him from the tabernacle of witnessing, saying,That if the offering is of little beasts, a burnt sacrifice of sheep, either of goats, he shall offer a male beast without wem,and he shall offer that at the side of the altar that beholdeth to the north, before the Lord. Soothly the sons of Aaron shall pour the blood thereof on the altar by compass,and they shall part the members, the head, and all things that cleave to the maw, and they shall put them on the wood, under which the fire shall be set [or put];soothly they shall wash in water the entrails and [the] feet; and the priest shall burn all things offered on the altar, into burnt sacrifice, and sweetest odour to the Lord.Forsooth if the offering of burnt sacrifice to the Lord is of birds, of turtles, or of culver birds,the priest shall offer it at the altar; and when the head is writhed to the neck, and the place of the wound is broken, he shall make the blood run down on the brink of the altar.Soothly he shall cast forth the little bladder of the throat, or the crop, and the feathers beside the altar, at the east coast, in the place in the which the ashes be wont to be cast out;and the priest shall break the wings thereof, and he shall not carve it, neither part it with iron; and he shall burn it on the altar, when fire is put under the wood; it is a burnt sacrifice, and an offering of sweetest odour to the Lord.
and thou shalt offer thus all the ram into incense on the altar; it is an offering to the Lord, the sweetest odour of the slain sacrifice of the Lord.
That if a soul, that is, a singular man, of the people of the land sinneth by ignorance, that he do anything of these [things] that be forbidden in the law of the Lord, and trespasseth,and knoweth his sin, he shall offer a she-goat without wem;and he shall set his hand upon the head of the sacrifice which is for [the] sin, and he shall offer it in the place of [the] burnt sacrifice.if a priest that is anointed, hath done sin, making the people to trespass, he shall offer for his sin a calf without wem to the Lord.And the priest shall take of the blood thereof upon his finger, and he shall touch the horns of the altar of burnt sacrifice, and he shall pour the blood that is left at the foundament of the altar.Soothly he shall take away all the inner fatness, as it is wont to be done away of the sacrifices of peaceable things, and he shall burn it on the altar, into odour of sweetness to the Lord; and the priest shall pray for him, and it shall be forgiven to him.
and thou shalt offer a calf for sin by each day to cleanse; and thou shalt cleanse the altar, when thou hast offered the sacrifice of cleansing, and thou shalt anoint the altar into [the] hallowing of it.Seven days thou shalt cleanse and hallow the altar, and it shall be the holy of holy things; each man that shall touch it shall be hallowed.
Offer thou to God the sacrifice of praising; and yield thine avows [or vows] to the highest God.
if his offering is burnt sacrifice, and of the drove of oxen, he shall offer a male beast without wem at the door of the tabernacle of witnessing, to make the Lord pleased to him.And he shall set his hands on the head of the sacrifice, and it shall be acceptable, and profiting into the cleansing of him.
do he penance for his sin,and offer he of the flocks a female lamb, either a goat; and the priest shall pray for him, and for his sin.
Whereto offer ye to me [or What to me] the multitude of your sacrifices? saith the Lord. I am full; I would not the burnt sacrifices of wethers, and the inner fatness of fat beasts, and the blood of calves, and of lambs, and of bucks of goats.
when the entrails and the feet be washed with water; and the priest shall burn those [or them] on the altar, into burnt sacrifice, and to sweet odour to the Lord.
Therefore he entering into the world, saith, Thou wouldest not sacrifice and offering; but thou hast shaped a body to me;
Forsooth [the] fire shall burn ever[more] in the altar, which fire the priest shall nourish, putting wood under, in the morrowtide by each day; and when [the] burnt sacrifice is put above, the priest shall burn the inner fatness of peaceable things.This is everlasting fire, that shall never fail in the altar.
And this shall be to you a lawful thing everlasting; in the seventh month, in the tenth day of the month, ye shall torment your souls, and ye shall not do any work, neither a man born in the land, neither a comeling that is a pilgrim among you.no but he do these things before. He shall offer a calf for sin, and a ram into burnt sacrifice;The delivering from sin, and the cleansing of you, shall be in this day, ye shall be cleansed before the Lord from all your sins;
he shall wash his flesh in the holy place, and he shall be clothed in his own clothes, and after that he hath gone out, and hath offered the burnt sacrifice of himself, and of the people, he shall pray as well for himself, as for the people;
for the life of flesh is in the blood, and I gave that blood to you, that ye cleanse therewith upon mine altar for your souls, and that the blood be sprinkled for [the] sin of the soul.
I shall praise the name of God with song; and I shall magnify him with praising.And it shall please God more than a new calf bringing forth horns and claws.
and he shall offer his offering to the Lord, a lamb of one year without wem, into burnt sacrifice, and a sheep of one year without wem, for sin, and a ram without wem, a peaceable sacrifice;
For the law having a shadow of good things to come, not that image of things, may never make men nighing [or coming nigh] perfect by those same sacrifices, which they offer without ceasing by all years;In which will we be hallowed by the offering of the body of Christ Jesus once.And each priest is ready ministering each day, and oft times offering the same sacrifices, which may never do away sins.But this man offering one sacrifice for sins, for evermore sitteth in [or on] the right half of God the Father;from thenceforth abiding, till his enemies be put a stool of [or under] his feet.For by one offering he made perfect for ever[more] hallowed men.And the Holy Ghost witnesseth to us; for after that he said,This is the testament, which I shall witness to them after those days, the Lord saith, in giving my laws in the hearts of them, and in the souls of them I shall above write them;and now I shall no more think on the sins and the wickedness of them.And where remission of these is, now is there none offering for sin.Therefore, brethren, having trust into the entering of holy things, in the blood of Christ,else they should have ceased to be offered, for as much as the worshippers cleansed once, had not furthermore conscience of sin.which [he] hallowed to us a new way, and living by the covering [or by a veil], that is to say, his flesh,and we having the great priest on the house of God,nigh we with very heart, in the plenty of faith; and be our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience, and our bodies washed with clean water,and hold we the confession of our hope, bowing to no side, [or unbowing, or unpliable]; for he is true that hath made the promise.And behold we together in the stirring of charity, and of good works;not forsaking our gathering together, as it is the custom to some men, but comforting [them], and by so much the more, by how much ye see the day nighing.For why now a sacrifice for sins is not left to us, that sin willfully, after that we have taken the knowing of truth.For why some abiding of doom is dreadful, and the pursuing of fire, which shall waste adversaries.Who that breaketh Moses’ law, dieth without any mercy, by two or three witnesses;how much more guess ye, that he deserveth worse torments, which defouleth the Son of God, and holdeth the blood of the testament polluted, in which he is hallowed, and doeth despite [or wrong] to the Spirit of grace?But in them [by oft offering], mind of sins is made by all years.For we know him that said, To me vengeance, and I shall yield. And again, For the Lord shall deem his people.It is fearedful to fall into the hands of God living. [+It is fearful to fall into the hands of living God.]And have ye mind on the former days, in which ye were enlightened, and suffered great strife of passions.And in the tother ye were made a spectacle by shames, and tribulations; in another ye were made fellows of men living so.For also to bound men ye had compassion, and ye received with joy the robbing of your goods, knowing that ye have a better and a dwelling substance.Therefore do not ye lose your trust, which hath great rewarding.For patience is needful to you, that ye do the will of God, and bring again the promise.For yet a little, and he that is to come shall come, and he shall not tarry.For my just man liveth of faith; that if he withdraweth himself, he shall not please to my soul.But we be not the sons of withdrawing away into perdition, but of faith into [the] getting of soul.For it is impossible that sins be done away by blood of bulls, and of bucks of goats.
and ye shall make an offering to the Lord into burnt sacrifice, either a peaceable sacrifice, and ye pay avows, either offer gifts by free will, either in your solemnities ye burn odour of sweetness to the Lord, of oxen, either of sheep;
For from the rising of the sun till to the going down, my name is great among heathen men; and in each place a clean offering is sacrificed, and offered to my name; for my name is great among heathen men, saith the Lord of hosts.
and thou shalt offer there thine offerings, and flesh, and blood, upon the altar of thy Lord God; thou shalt pour in the altar the blood of the sacrifices; but thou shalt eat the flesh.
And Samuel said, Whether the Lord will or desireth burnt sacrifices, either slain sacrifices, and not more, rather, that men obey to the voice of the Lord? Forsooth obedience to him is better than sacrifices, and to take heed to his word is more than to offer the inner fatness of rams;
That if his offering is a sacrifice of peaceable things, and he will offer of [the] oxen, he shall offer before the Lord a male, either a female, without wem.and ever either little rein, with the fatness which is beside the guts called ileum, and the caul of the maw, with the little reins.And the priest shall burn them upon the altar, into the feeding, or nourishing, of the fire, and of the offering to the Lord.If his offering is a goat, and he offereth it to the Lord,he shall set his hand on the head thereof, and he shall offer it in the entry of the tabernacle of witnessing; and the sons of Aaron shall pour the blood thereof by compass of the altar.And they shall take thereof, into the feeding, or nourishing, of the Lord’s fire, the fatness that covereth the womb, and that covereth all the entrails,and the two little reins with the caul that is on those [or them] beside the ileum, and the fatness of the maw, with the entrails that cleave to the little reins.And the priest shall burn those [or them] on the altar, into the feeding, or nourishing, of the fire, and of sweetest odour; all the fatness shall be the Lord’s,by everlasting right in generations, and in all your dwelling places, neither in any manner ye shall eat blood, neither fatness.
These be the sacrifices which ye owe to offer; two lambs of one year, without wem, each day, into ever-lasting burnt sacrifice.And ye shall offer a buck of goats, which is offered for cleansing,besides [the] burnt sacrifice ever-lasting, and the moist [or liquor] sacrifices thereof; ye shall offer all things without wem, with their moist [or liquor] sacrifices.Ye shall offer one lamb early, and the tother at eventide.
In that day the king hallowed the middle of the great street, that was before the house of the Lord; for he made there burnt sacrifice[s], and offering, and the inner fatness of peaceable things; for the brazen altar that was before the Lord was too little, and it might not take the burnt sacrifice, and the offering, and the inner fatness of peaceable things.
And when Solomon shedding out his prayers had full ended them, fire came down from heaven, and it devoured the burnt sacrifices, and the slain sacrifices; and the majesty, or shining, of the Lord full-filled the house.
Thou wouldest or desiredest not sacrifice and offering; but thou madest perfectly ears to me. Thou askedest not burnt sacrifice, and other sacrifice for sin;then I said, Lo! I come. In the head of the book it is written of me,that I should do thy will; my God, I would also to do it; and thy law in the midst of mine heart.
Whereto offer ye to me [or What to me] the multitude of your sacrifices? saith the Lord. I am full; I would not the burnt sacrifices of wethers, and the inner fatness of fat beasts, and the blood of calves, and of lambs, and of bucks of goats.When ye came before my sight, who asked of your hands these things, that ye should go in my foreyards?Offer ye no more sacrifice in vain; incense is abomination to me; I shall not suffer new moon, and sabbath, and other feasts. For your companies be wicked;
Forsooth when the prince maketh a willful burnt sacrifice, either willful peaceable sacrifices to the Lord, the gate that beholdeth to the east shall be opened to him; and he shall make his burnt sacrifice, and his peaceable sacrifices, as it is wont to be done in the day of sabbath; and he shall go out, and the gate shall be closed after that he went out.
Thou wouldest or desiredest not sacrifice and offering; but thou madest perfectly ears to me. Thou askedest not burnt sacrifice, and other sacrifice for sin;
For if thou haddest would or desired sacrifice, I had given it; truly thou shalt not delight in burnt sacrifice.A sacrifice to God is a spirit troubled, that is, sorry for sin; God, thou shalt not despise a contrite heart, and made meek.
And almost all things be cleansed in blood by the law; and without shedding of blood remission of sins is not made.
I shall enter into thine house in burnt sacrifices; I shall yield to thee my vows,which my lips spake distinctly. And my mouth spake in my tribulation;I shall offer to thee burnt sacrifices full of marrow, with the burning of rams; I shall offer to thee oxes [or oxen] with bucks of goats.
God is Lord, and he hath given light to us. Ordain ye a solemn day in thick peoples; till to the horns of the altar.
and the Lord would defoul him in sickness. If he putteth his life for sin, he shall see his seed long enduring, and the will of the Lord shall be addressed in his hand.
For I spake not with your fathers, and I commanded not to them of the word of burnt sacrifices, and of slain sacrifices, in the day in which I led them out of the land of Egypt.But I commanded this word to them, and I said, Hear ye my voice, and I shall be God to you, and ye shall be a people to me; and go ye in all the way which I commanded to you, that it be well to you.
For I would or desire mercy, and not sacrifice, and I would the knowing of God, more than burnt sacrifices.
and that they shall give an offering, after that it is said in the law of the Lord, A pair of turtles, or two culver birds.
What worthy thing shall I offer to the Lord? shall I bow the knee to the high God? Whether shall I offer to him brunt sacrifices, and calves of one year?Whether God may be satisfied in thousands of wethers, either in many thousands of fat goat bucks? Whether I shall give my first begotten for my great trespass, the fruit of my womb for sin of my soul?I shall show to thee, thou man, what is good, and what the Lord asketh of thee; forsooth for to do doom, and for to love mercy, and be busy for to walk with thy God.
But though I be offered or slain on the sacrifice and service of your faith, I have joy, and I thank you all.
But go ye, and learn what it is, I will mercy, and not sacrifice; for I came, not to call rightful [or rightwise] men, but sinful men to penance.
And if ye knew, what it is, I will mercy, and not sacrifice, ye should never have condemned innocents.
and I am fixed to the cross, that I live to God with Christ. And now live not I, but Christ liveth in me. But that I live now in flesh, I live in the faith of God’s Son, that loved me, and gave himself for me. [with Christ I am fixed to the cross. Forsooth I live now, not I, but Christ liveth in me. Forsooth that I live now in flesh, I live in the faith of God’s son, the which loved me, and betook himself for me.]
[and] that he be loved of all the heart, and of all the mind, and of all the understanding, and of all the soul, and of all the strength, and to love the neighbour as himself, is greater [or is more], than all burnt offerings and sacrifices.
Another day John saw Jesus coming to him, and he said, Lo! the lamb of God; lo! he that doeth away the sins of the world.
to thee I shall offer a sacrifice of praising; and I shall inwardly call the name of the Lord.
Therefore, brethren, I beseech you by the mercy of God, that ye give your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing to God, and your service reasonable.
and walk ye in love, as Christ loved us, and gave himself for us an offering and a sacrifice to God, into the odour of sweetness.
else it behooved him to suffer oft from the beginning of the world; but now once in the ending of the worlds, to the destruction of sin by his sacrifice he appeared.
For I have all things, and abound; I am [full]-filled [or replete] with those things taken of Epaphroditus, which ye sent into the odour of sweetness, a covenable sacrifice, pleasing to God.
Therefore if thou offerest thy gift at the altar, and there thou bethinkest, that thy brother hath somewhat [or something] against thee,leave there thy gift before the altar, and go first to be reconciled to thy brother, and then thou shalt come, and shalt offer thy gift.
neither by blood of goat bucks, or of calves, but by his own blood, entered once into the holy things, that were found by an everlasting redemption.
how much more the blood of Christ, which by the Holy Ghost offered himself unwemmed to God, shall cleanse our conscience from dead works, to serve God that liveth? [or to serve to living God?]
But this man offering one sacrifice for sins, for evermore sitteth in [or on] the right half of God the Father;
Therefore by him offer we a sacrifice of praising evermore to God, that is to say, the fruit of lips acknowledging to his name.And do not ye forget well-doing, and communing; for by such sacrifices God is well-served.
witting that not by corruptible gold, either silver, ye be bought again of your vain living of fathers’ tradition,but by the precious blood as of the lamb undefouled and unspotted, Christ Jesus,
and ye yourselves as quick stones, be ye above builded into spiritual houses, and an holy priesthood, to offer spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.
and he is the forgiveness [or helping] for our sins; and not only for our sins, but also for the sins of all the world.
And they sung a new song, and said, Lord our God, thou art worthy to take the book, and to open the seals of it; for thou were slain, and again-boughtest us to God in thy blood, of each lineage, and tongue, and people, and nation;
And another angel came, and stood before the altar, and had a golden censer; and many incenses were given to him, that he should give of the prayers of all saints on the golden altar, that is before the throne of God.And the smoke of the incenses of the prayers of the holy men ascended or went up from the angel’s hand before God.