Quotes About Sacrifice

So Moses and Eleazar the priest received from them all the articles made out of gold.

All the gold that the commanders of thousands and of hundreds presented as an offering to the LORD weighed 16,750 shekels.

And Moses and Eleazar the priest received the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds and brought it into the Tent of Meeting as a memorial for the Israelites before the LORD.

But Moses asked the Gadites and Reubenites, “Shall your brothers go to war while you sit here?

But we will arm ourselves and be ready to go ahead of the Israelites until we have brought them into their place. Meanwhile, our little ones will remain in the fortified cities for protection from the inhabitants of the land.

Moses replied, “If you will do this—if you will arm yourselves before the LORD for battle,

and if every one of your armed men crosses the Jordan before the LORD, until He has driven His enemies out before Him,

The Gadites and Reubenites said to Moses, “Your servants will do just as our lord commands.

Our children, our wives, our livestock, and all our animals will remain here in the cities of Gilead.

But your servants are equipped for war, and every man will cross over to the battle before the LORD, just as our lord says.”

The Gadites and Reubenites replied, “As the LORD has spoken to your servants, so we will do.

At the LORDís command, Aaron the priest climbed Mount Hor and died there on the first day of the fifth month, in the fortieth year after the Israelites had come out of the land of Egypt.

The avenger of blood is to put the murderer to death; when he finds him, he is to kill him.

Do not pollute the land where you live, for bloodshed pollutes the land, and no atonement can be made for the land on which the blood is shed, except by the blood of the one who shed it.

We devoted them to destruction, as we had done to Sihon king of Heshbon, utterly destroying the men, women, and children of every city.

For I will not be crossing the Jordan, because I must die in this land. But you shall cross over and take possession of that good land.

And there you will serve man-made gods of wood and stone, which cannot see or hear or eat or smell.

Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.

When I went up on the mountain to receive the tablets of stone, the tablets of the covenant that the LORD made with you, I stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights. I ate no bread and drank no water.

Then I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, as I had done the first time. I did not eat bread or drink water because of all the sin you had committed in doing what was evil in the sight of the LORD and provoking Him to anger.

And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.

So I fell down before the LORD for forty days and forty nights, because the LORD had said He would destroy you.

Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.

You shall not worship the LORD your God in this way.