123 passages · Salvation
Noah builds an altar and offers burnt offerings. The Lord is pleased and resolves never again to curse the ground or destroy all life, as long as the seasons of the earth continue.
God tells Abraham to offer Isaac as a burnt offering on Moriah. Abraham sets out early. Isaac asks where the lamb is, and Abraham answers that God will provide.
Abraham binds Isaac and raises the knife, but the angel of the Lord stops him. Abraham sees a ram caught in a thicket, offers it instead, and names the place 'The Lord Will Provide'.
The LORD makes this month the first of the year. Each household is to keep a year-old lamb, slaughter it at twilight, put its blood on the doorframes, and eat it roasted in haste, so that judgment will pass over them.
The LORD summons Moses and leaders to worship from a distance. Moses relays the laws, the people promise to obey, and Moses writes them down, builds an altar, offers sacrifices, reads the Book of the Covenant and sprinkles blood on the people.
God gives dimensions for a gold-covered wooden ark with carrying poles, to hold the Testimony, and a gold mercy seat with two cherubim. God says he will meet and speak with Moses there.
God gives dimensions for a square hollow altar of acacia wood covered in bronze, with horns on the corners, bronze utensils, a grate and carrying poles.
God describes the bull as a sin offering, one ram as a burnt offering, and a second ram of ordination whose blood is put on the priests' ear, thumb and toe. Portions are waved before the LORD and become the priests' share.
God says Aaron's garments pass to his successors, the ordination meal must be eaten at the tent entrance and leftovers burned. For seven days a bull is offered daily to cleanse and consecrate the altar.
When a census is taken, each man twenty or older must pay a half shekel, rich and poor alike, as a ransom for his life. The money goes to the service of the Tent of Meeting.
The next day Moses returns to the LORD and asks him to forgive the people, or else blot Moses out of his book. God says he will blot out those who sinned, tells Moses to lead on with his angel, and sends a plague.
Bezalel makes the bronze-covered altar of burnt offering with its horns, utensils, grate and poles. He also makes the bronze basin and stand from the mirrors of the women who served at the tent entrance.
The passage records the amounts of gold, silver and bronze used, including silver from the half-shekel payment of 603,550 men. It says what the metals were used for, such as bases, hooks and the bronze altar.
The LORD calls to Moses from the Tent of Meeting and tells him to instruct the Israelites about bringing animal offerings from the herd or flock.
An unblemished bull is brought to the entrance, the worshiper lays a hand on it, and it is slaughtered. The priests splash the blood on the altar and burn the whole animal as a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
If the worshiper brings a sheep or goat instead, it is also an unblemished male, killed on the north side of the altar and burned whole in much the same way.
A poorer worshiper may bring a turtledove or young pigeon. The priest prepares it at the altar and burns it, and the text again calls it a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
A male or female animal from the herd, without blemish, is presented as a peace offering. The worshiper lays a hand on it, and the priests burn its fat, kidneys, and liver lobe on the altar.
A lamb or sheep from the flock is offered in the same way, with its fatty tail included in the portions burned on the altar as food for the LORD.
A goat is offered with the same fat portions burned, and all the fat is declared the LORD's. The chapter ends with a permanent rule that the Israelites must not eat fat or blood.
When the anointed priest sins unintentionally and brings guilt on the people, he brings a young bull. Its blood is sprinkled before the veil and put on the incense altar's horns, and the carcass is burned outside the camp.
If the whole congregation sins unintentionally, the elders lay hands on a young bull, and the priest handles its blood as for the priest's own offering. The bull is burned outside the camp and the people are forgiven.
A leader who sins unintentionally brings an unblemished male goat. Its blood goes on the altar of burnt offering, its fat is burned, and the priest makes atonement.
An ordinary person who sins unintentionally brings an unblemished female goat. The priest applies its blood to the altar and burns the fat, and the person is forgiven.
A commoner may instead bring an unblemished female lamb, handled the same way, and the priest makes atonement so the person is forgiven.
A person too poor for a lamb may bring two birds, one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering. If even that is too much, a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, without oil or frankincense, is accepted.
When someone unintentionally wrongs the LORD's holy things, he brings a ram as a guilt offering. He must also repay the value plus a fifth to the priest.
A person who breaks a command without realizing it is still guilty and brings a ram as a guilt offering. The priest makes atonement and he is forgiven.
The sin offering is slaughtered where the burnt offering is, and the priest who offers it eats it in the holy courtyard. If its blood was brought into the tent, the meat must instead be burned.
The guilt offering is handled like the sin offering: fat burned, blood splashed on the altar, and the meat eaten by male priests in a holy place. Priests also receive the hide of burnt offerings and most grain offerings.