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Burnt offering
Bible Dictionary of Animals, Plants and other Objects
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Comments: Priest sacrifices bull on altar of burnt offering
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Comments: Offering Up a Burnt Sacrifice to God. Caption: "This man is offering up a burnt sacrifice to God. When an Israelite wanted to thank God for having helped him, he took a lamb out of his flock, and killed it, and put it on an altar. Then he set fire to it and burned it up. This was called a burnt sacrifice. In the tabernacle which the Israelites built, the priests offered up a sacrifice of two lambs every day. This was for all the people."
From Easton: Hebrew _olah_; i.e., "ascending," the whole being consumed by fire, and regarded as ascending to God while being consumed. Part of every offering was burnt in the sacred fire, but this was wholly burnt, a "whole burnt offering." It was the most frequent form of sacrifice, and apparently the only one mentioned in the book of Genesis. Such were the sacrifices offered by Abel (Genesis 4:3, Genesis 4:4, here called _minhah_; i.e., "a gift"), Noah (Genesis 8:20), Abraham (Genesis 22:2, Genesis 22:7, Genesis 22:8, Genesis 22:13), and by the Hebrews in Egypt (Exodus 10:25).
The law of Moses afterwards prescribed the occasions and the manner in which burnt sacrifices were to be offered. There were "the continual burnt offering" (Exodus 29:38-Luke :; Leviticus 6:9-13), "the burnt offering of every sabbath," which was double the daily one (Numbers 28:9, Numbers 28:10), "the burnt offering of every month" (28:11-15), the offerings at the Passover (19-23), at Pentecost (Leviticus 23:16), the feast of Trumpets (23:23-25), and on the day of Atonement (Leviticus 16:0).
On other occasions special sacrifices were offered, as at the consecration of Aaron (Exodus 29:0) and the dedication of the temple (1 Kings 8:5, 1 Kings 8:62-3 John :).
Free-will burnt offerings were also permitted (Leviticus 1:13), and were offered at the accession of Solomon to the throne (1 Chronicles 29:21), and at the reformation brought about by Hezekiah (2 Chronicles 29:31-Habakkuk :).
These offerings signified the complete dedication of the offerers unto God. This is referred to in Romans 12:1. (See ALTAR, SACRIFICE.)
Verses:
- Genesis 8:20
- Genesis 22:2
- Genesis 22:3
- Genesis 22:6
- Genesis 22:7
- Genesis 22:8
- Genesis 22:13
- Exodus 10:25
- Exodus 18:12
- Exodus 20:24
- Exodus 24:5
- Exodus 29:18
- Exodus 29:25
- Exodus 29:38
- Exodus 29:42
- Exodus 30:9
- Exodus 30:28
- Exodus 31:9
- Exodus 32:6
- Exodus 35:16
- Exodus 38:1
- Exodus 40:6
- Exodus 40:10
- Exodus 40:29
- Leviticus 1:3
- Leviticus 1:4
- Leviticus 1:6
- Leviticus 1:9
- Leviticus 1:10
- Leviticus 1:13
- Leviticus 1:14
- Leviticus 1:17
- Leviticus 3:5
- Leviticus 4:7
- Leviticus 4:10
- Leviticus 4:18
- Leviticus 4:24
- Leviticus 4:25
- Leviticus 4:29
- Leviticus 4:30
- Leviticus 4:33
- Leviticus 4:34
- Leviticus 5:7
- Leviticus 5:10
- Leviticus 6:9
- Leviticus 6:10
- Leviticus 6:12
- Leviticus 6:25
- Leviticus 7:2
- Leviticus 7:8
- Leviticus 7:37
- Leviticus 8:18
- Leviticus 8:21
- Leviticus 8:28
- Leviticus 9:2
- Leviticus 9:3
- Leviticus 9:7
- Leviticus 9:12
- Leviticus 9:13
- Leviticus 9:14
- Leviticus 9:16
- Leviticus 9:17
- Leviticus 9:22
- Leviticus 9:24
- Leviticus 10:19
- Leviticus 12:6
- Leviticus 12:8
- Leviticus 14:13
- Leviticus 14:19
- Leviticus 14:20
- Leviticus 14:22
- Leviticus 14:31
- Leviticus 15:15
- Leviticus 15:30
- Leviticus 16:3
- Leviticus 16:5
- Leviticus 16:24
- Leviticus 17:4
- Leviticus 17:8
- Leviticus 22:18
- Leviticus 23:12
- Leviticus 23:18
- Leviticus 23:37
- Numbers 6:11
- Numbers 6:14
- Numbers 6:16
- Numbers 7:15
- Numbers 7:21
- Numbers 7:27
- Numbers 7:33
- Numbers 7:39
- Numbers 7:45
- Numbers 7:51
- Numbers 7:57
- Numbers 7:63
- Numbers 7:69
- Numbers 7:75
- Numbers 7:81
- Numbers 7:87
- Numbers 8:12
- Numbers 10:10
- Numbers 15:3
- Numbers 15:5
- Numbers 15:8
- Numbers 15:24
- Numbers 23:3
- Numbers 23:6
- Numbers 23:15
- Numbers 23:17
- Numbers 28:3
- Numbers 28:6
- Numbers 28:10
- Numbers 28:11
- Numbers 28:13
- Numbers 28:14
- Numbers 28:15
- Numbers 28:19
- Numbers 28:23
- Numbers 28:24
- Numbers 28:27
- Numbers 28:31
- Numbers 29:2
- Numbers 29:6
- Numbers 29:8
- Numbers 29:11
- Numbers 29:13
- Numbers 29:16
- Numbers 29:19
- Numbers 29:22
- Numbers 29:25
- Numbers 29:28
- Numbers 29:31
- Numbers 29:34
- Numbers 29:36
- Numbers 29:38
- Numbers 29:39
- Deuteronomy 12:6
- Deuteronomy 12:11
- Deuteronomy 12:13
- Deuteronomy 12:14
- Deuteronomy 12:27
- Deuteronomy 13:16
- Deuteronomy 27:6
- Deuteronomy 33:10
- Joshua 8:31
- Joshua 22:23
- Joshua 22:26
- Joshua 22:27
- Joshua 22:28
- Joshua 22:29
- Judges 6:26
- Judges 11:31
- Judges 13:16
- Judges 13:23
- Judges 20:26
- Judges 21:4
- 1 Samuel 6:14
- 1 Samuel 6:15
- 1 Samuel 7:9
- 1 Samuel 7:10
- 1 Samuel 10:8
- 1 Samuel 13:9
- 1 Samuel 13:10
- 1 Samuel 13:12
- 1 Samuel 15:12
- 1 Samuel 15:22
- 2 Samuel 6:17
- 2 Samuel 6:18
- 2 Samuel 24:22
- 2 Samuel 24:24
- 2 Samuel 24:25
- 1 Kings 3:4
- 1 Kings 3:15
- 1 Kings 8:64
- 1 Kings 9:25
- 1 Kings 10:5
- 1 Kings 18:34
- 1 Kings 18:38
- 2 Kings 3:27
- 2 Kings 5:17
- 2 Kings 10:24
- 2 Kings 10:25
- 2 Kings 16:13
- 2 Kings 16:15
- 1 Chronicles 6:49
- 1 Chronicles 16:1
- 1 Chronicles 16:2
- 1 Chronicles 16:40
- 1 Chronicles 21:23
- 1 Chronicles 21:24
- 1 Chronicles 21:26
- 1 Chronicles 21:29
- 1 Chronicles 22:1
- 1 Chronicles 23:31
- 1 Chronicles 29:21
- 2 Chronicles 1:6
- 2 Chronicles 2:4
- 2 Chronicles 4:6
- 2 Chronicles 7:1
- 2 Chronicles 7:7
- 2 Chronicles 8:12
- 2 Chronicles 9:4
- 2 Chronicles 13:11
- 2 Chronicles 23:18
- 2 Chronicles 24:14
- 2 Chronicles 29:7
- 2 Chronicles 29:18
- 2 Chronicles 29:24
- 2 Chronicles 29:27
- 2 Chronicles 29:28
- 2 Chronicles 29:31
- 2 Chronicles 29:32
- 2 Chronicles 29:34
- 2 Chronicles 29:35
- 2 Chronicles 30:15
- 2 Chronicles 31:2
- 2 Chronicles 31:3
- 2 Chronicles 35:12
- 2 Chronicles 35:14
- 2 Chronicles 35:16
- Ezra 3:2
- Ezra 3:3
- Ezra 3:4
- Ezra 3:5
- Ezra 3:6
- Ezra 6:9
- Ezra 8:35
- Nehemiah 10:33
- Job 1:5
- Job 42:8
- Psalms 40:6
- Psalms 50:8
- Psalms 51:16
- Psalms 51:19
- Psalms 66:13
- Psalms 66:15
- Isaiah 1:11
- Isaiah 40:16
- Isaiah 43:23
- Isaiah 56:7
- Jeremiah 6:20
- Jeremiah 7:21
- Jeremiah 7:22
- Jeremiah 14:12
- Jeremiah 17:26
- Jeremiah 19:5
- Jeremiah 33:18
- Ezekiel 40:38
- Ezekiel 40:39
- Ezekiel 40:42
- Ezekiel 43:18
- Ezekiel 43:24
- Ezekiel 43:27
- Ezekiel 44:11
- Ezekiel 45:15
- Ezekiel 45:17
- Ezekiel 45:23
- Ezekiel 45:25
- Ezekiel 46:2
- Ezekiel 46:4
- Ezekiel 46:12
- Ezekiel 46:13
- Ezekiel 46:15
- Daniel 11:31
- Hosea 6:6
- Amos 5:22
- Micah 6:6
- Mark 12:33
- Hebrews 10:6
- Hebrews 10:8
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