Quotes about Sacrifice
As for the censers of those who sinned at the cost of their own lives, hammer them into sheets to overlay the altar, for these were presented before the LORD, and so have become holy. They will serve as a sign to the Israelites.”
— Numbers 16:38
So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers brought by those who had been burned up, and he had them hammered out to overlay the altar,
— Numbers 16:39
Then Moses placed the staffs before the LORD in the Tent of the Testimony.
— Numbers 17:7
I give you all the freshest olive oil and all the finest new wine and grain that the Israelites give to the LORD as their firstfruits.
— Numbers 18:12
The firstborn of every womb, whether man or beast, that is offered to the LORD belongs to you. But you must surely redeem every firstborn son and every firstborn male of unclean animals.
— Numbers 18:15
But you must not redeem the firstborn of an ox, a sheep, or a goat; they are holy. You are to sprinkle their blood on the altar and burn their fat as an offering made by fire, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
— Numbers 18:17
And their meat belongs to you, just as the breast and right thigh of the wave offering belong to you.
— Numbers 18:18
And the LORD instructed Moses,
— Numbers 18:25
Your offering will be reckoned to you as grain from the threshing floor or juice from the winepress.
— Numbers 18:27
You must present the offering due the LORD from all the best of every gift, the holiest part of it.’
— Numbers 18:29
Therefore say to the Levites, ‘When you have presented the best part, it will be reckoned to you as the produce of the threshing floor or winepress.
— Numbers 18:30
Give it to Eleazar the priest, and he will have it brought outside the camp and slaughtered in his presence.
— Numbers 19:3