Quotes About Sacrifice

and said to Moses, “We are unclean because of a dead body, but why should we be excluded from presenting the LORDís offering with the other Israelites at the appointed time?”

“Tell the Israelites: ëWhen any one of you or your descendants is unclean because of a dead body, or is away on a journey, he may still observe the Passover to the LORD.

Such people are to observe it at twilight on the fourteenth day of the second month. They are to eat the lamb, together with unleavened bread and bitter herbs;

they may not leave any of it until morning or break any of its bones. They must observe the Passover according to all its statutes.

And on your joyous occasions, your appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month, you are to blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and fellowship offerings to serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.”

So that place was called Taberah, because the fire of the LORD had burned among them.

We remember the fish we ate freely in Egypt, along with the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic.

Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ëCarry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,í to the land that You swore to give their fathers?

You will eat it not for one or two days, nor for five or ten or twenty days,

If all our flocks and herds were slaughtered for them, would they have enough? Or if all the fish in the sea were caught for them, would they have enough?”

Why is the LORD bringing us into this land to fall by the sword? Our wives and children will become plunder. Would it not be better for us to go back to Egypt?”

Then Moses and Aaron fell facedown before the whole assembly of the congregation of Israel.

Joshua son of Nun and Caleb son of Jephunneh, who were among those who had spied out the land, tore their clothes

and you present an offering made by fire to the LORD from the herd or flock to produce a pleasing aroma to the LORD—either a burnt offering or a sacrifice, for a special vow or freewill offering or appointed feast—

then the one presenting his offering to the LORD shall also present a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter hin of olive oil.

With the burnt offering or sacrifice of each lamb, you are to prepare a quarter hin of wine as a drink offering.

With a ram you are to prepare a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a third of a hin of olive oil,

and a third of a hin of wine as a drink offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

When you prepare a young bull as a burnt offering or sacrifice to fulfill a vow or as a peace offering to the LORD,

present with the bull a grain offering of three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with half a hin of olive oil.

Also present half a hin of wine as a drink offering. It is an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

This is to be done for each bull, ram, lamb, or goat.

This is how you must prepare each one, no matter how many.

Everyone who is native-born shall prepare these things in this way when he presents an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.