Quotes About Sacrifice

Then all the elders of the city nearest the victim shall wash their hands by the stream over the heifer whose neck has been broken,

Accept this atonement, O LORD, for Your people Israel whom You have redeemed, and do not hold the shedding of innocent blood against them.” And the bloodshed will be atoned for.

So you shall purge from among you the guilt of shedding innocent blood, since you have done what is right in the eyes of the LORD.

then you shall bring her into your house. She must shave her head, trim her nails,

If a man has committed a sin worthy of death, and he is executed, and you hang his body on a tree,

You may take the young, but be sure to let the mother go, so that it may be well with you and that you may prolong your days.

you are to take some of the firstfruits of all your produce from the soil of the land that the LORD your God is giving you and put them in a basket. Then go to the place the LORD your God will choose as a dwelling for His Name,

Then the priest shall take the basket from your hands and place it before the altar of the LORD your God,

And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land that You, O LORD, have given me.” Then you are to place the basket before the LORD your God and bow down before Him.

Moreover, you are to build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You must not use any iron tool on them.

You shall build the altar of the LORD your God with uncut stones and offer upon it burnt offerings to the LORD your God.

There you are to sacrifice your peace offerings, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the LORD your God.

Your corpses will be food for all the birds of the air and beasts of the earth, with no one to scare them away.

Your ox will be slaughtered before your eyes, but you will not eat any of it. Your donkey will be taken away and not returned to you. Your flock will be given to your enemies, and no one will save you.

Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.

refusing to share with any of them the flesh of his children he will eat because he has nothing left in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within all your gates.

The most gentle and refined woman among you, so gentle and refined she would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground, will begrudge the husband she embraces and her son and daughter

You ate no bread and drank no wine or strong drink, so that you might know that I am the LORD your God.

They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.

which ate the fat of their sacrifices and drank the wine of their drink offerings? Let them rise up and help you; let them give you shelter!

I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh—the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”

Although you shall see from a distance the land that I am giving the Israelites, you shall not enter it.”

He said of his father and mother, ëI do not consider them.í He disregarded his brothers and did not know his own sons, for he kept Your word and maintained Your covenant.

He will teach Your ordinances to Jacob and Your law to Israel; he will set incense before You and whole burnt offerings on Your altar.