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burnt offering

noun

burnt offering

a sacrificial offering burnt, usually on an altar, to honour, propitiate, or supplicate a deity

Middle English word dating back to 1350–1400

On the Sabbath Day an additional burnt-offering of two lambs with their meat-offering and drink-offering was required.

Next were brought one young bullock, one ram, and one lamb of the first year—all for a burnt-offering.

And the chambers and the entries thereof were by the posts of the gates, where they washed the burnt offering.

Here no evening lamb for a burnt-offering is mentioned, but the offerings are to be brought only during the mornings.

Thus shall they prepare the lamb and the meal offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.

April 20, 2024flabbergast

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