Quotes about Sacrifice
Give me my wives and children for whom I have served you, that I may go on my way. You know how hard I have worked for you.”
— Genesis 30:26
I did not bring you anything torn by wild beasts; I bore the loss myself. And you demanded payment from me for what was stolen by day or night.
— Genesis 31:39
Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat a meal. And after they had eaten, they spent the night on the mountain.
— Genesis 31:54
200 female goats, 20 male goats, 200 ewes, 20 rams,
— Genesis 32:14
There he set up an altar and called it El-Elohe-Israel.
— Genesis 33:20
So they gave Jacob all their foreign gods and all their earrings, and Jacob buried them under the oak near Shechem.
— Genesis 35:4
Then they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.
— Genesis 37:31
If you are honest, leave one of your brothers in custody while the rest of you go and take back grain to relieve the hunger of your households.
— Genesis 42:19
But if you will not send him, we will not go; for the man told us, ‘You will not see my face again unless your brother is with you.’”
— Genesis 43:5
And Judah said to his father Israel, “Send the boy with me, and we will go at once, so that we may live and not die—neither we, nor you, nor our children.
— Genesis 43:8
So the men took these gifts, along with double the amount of silver, and Benjamin as well. Then they hurried down to Egypt and stood before Joseph.
— Genesis 43:15
So we said to my lord, ‘The boy cannot leave his father. If he were to leave, his father would die.’
— Genesis 44:22