Leviticus 3:1

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

When you offer sacrifices to ask my blessing, you may offer either a bull or a cow, but there must be nothing wrong with the animal.

Cross References

1 Chronicles 21:26

David built an altar and offered sacrifices to please the LORD and sacrifices to ask his blessing. David prayed, and the LORD answered him by sending fire down on the altar.

Exodus 20:24

Build an altar out of earth, and offer on it your sacrifices of sheep, goats, and cattle. Wherever I choose to be worshipped, I will come down to bless you.

Exodus 24:5

He also sent some young men to burn offerings and to sacrifice bulls as special offerings to the LORD.

Proverbs 7:14

“I had to offer a sacrifice, and there is enough meat left over for a feast.

Ezekiel 43:27

From then on, the priests will use this altar to offer sacrifices to please me and sacrifices to ask my blessing. Then I will be pleased with the people of Israel. I, the LORD God, have spoken.

Ezekiel 45:15

Finally, they must bring one sheep out of every two hundred from their flocks. These offerings will be used as grain sacrifices, as well as sacrifices to please me and those to ask my blessing. I, the LORD, will be pleased with these sacrifices and will forgive the sins of my people.

Leviticus 1:10

If you sacrifice a ram or a goat, it must not have anything wrong with it.

Leviticus 17:5

And so, when you sacrifice an animal to ask my blessing, it must not be done out in a field,

Leviticus 3:6

Instead of a bull or a cow, you may offer any sheep or goat that has nothing wrong with it.

Leviticus 9:18

At last, he killed the bull and the ram as a sacrifice to ask the LORD's blessing on the people. Aaron's sons brought him the blood, and he splattered it against the four sides of the altar.

Leviticus 9:4

Then the people must offer a bull and a ram as a sacrifice to ask the LORD's blessing and also a grain sacrifice mixed with oil. Do this, because the LORD will appear to you today.

Amos 5:22

I won't accept your offerings or animal sacrifices— not even your very best.

Malachi 1:14

Instead of offering the acceptable animals you have promised, you bring me those that are unhealthy. I will punish you for this, because I am the great King, the LORD All-Powerful, and I am worshipped by nations everywhere.

Malachi 1:8

But isn't it wrong to offer animals that are blind, crippled, or sick? Just try giving those animals to your governor. That certainly wouldn't please him or make him want to help you.

Numbers 15:8

If a bull is offered as a sacrifice to please me or to ask my blessing,

Numbers 6:14

and offer three animals that have nothing wrong with them: a year-old ram as a sacrifice to please me, a year-old female lamb as a sacrifice for sin, and a full-grown ram as a sacrifice to ask my blessing.

Colossians 1:20

And God was pleased for him to make peace by sacrificing his blood on the cross, so that all beings in heaven and on earth would be brought back to God.

Hebrews 10:22

So let's come near God with pure hearts and a confidence that comes from having faith. Let's keep our hearts pure, our consciences free from evil, and our bodies washed with clean water.

1 John 1:3

We are telling you what we have seen and heard, so that you may share in this life with us. And we share in it with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.

Judges 20:26

The people of Israel went to the place of worship at Bethel, where the sacred chest was being kept. They sat on the ground, crying and not eating for the rest of the day. Then about sunset, they offered sacrifices to please the LORD and to ask his blessing. Phinehas the priest then prayed, “Our LORD, the people of Benjamin are our relatives. Should we stop fighting or attack them again?” “Attack!” the LORD answered. “Tomorrow I will let you defeat them.”

Judges 21:4

Early the next morning, the Israelites built an altar and offered sacrifices to please the LORD and to ask his blessing.