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Another burnt-offering is that of Jethro, Moses' father-in-law (Exodus 18:12). The Nevi'im section of the Hebrew Bible, particularly passages in the Book of Judges, presents the practice of the burnt offering. [10] In the story of Gideon, a slaughter offering of a young goat and unleavened bread is consumed by fire sent from heaven. [13]
Burnt offering (olah), entirely burnt on the altar; Peace offering (shelamim), mostly eaten by humans; Sin offering (hatat) Guilt offering (asham) Gift offering (mincha), consisting of vegetable rather than animal products; Sacrifices offered on specific occasions include: Daily offerings (tamid) Mussaf (additional) offering for Shabbat and ...
Blood sacrifices were divided into burnt offerings (Hebrew: עלה קרבנות) in which the whole unmaimed animal was burnt, guilt offerings (in which part was burnt and part left for the priest) and peace offerings (in which similarly only part of the undamaged animal was burnt and the rest eaten in ritually pure conditions).
All or only part of a sacrificial animal may be offered; some cultures, like the ancient and modern Greeks, eat most of the edible parts of the sacrifice in a feast, and burnt the rest as an offering. Others burnt the whole animal offering, called a holocaust. Usually, the best animal or best share of the animal is the one presented for offering.
A freewill offering can be eaten for two days, and burned the third day. Meat that touches anything unclean is burned. Only a clean person eats peace offerings. Fat or blood is not eaten. One presents the peace offering himself, the fat is burned, the breast goes to the priests, and the right thigh to the priest offering the sacrifice.
Burnt offerings could be bulls, rams or male goats, or turtle doves or pigeons, which the priest burned completely on wood on the altar. Meal offerings were of choice flour with oil, from which priest would remove a token portion to burn on the altar, and the remainder the priests could eat.
In slaughter offerings, the portion allocated to the deity was mainly the fat, the part which can most easily be burnt. The animals, having first been checked to ensure they were free from disease and unblemished (a requirement of the sacrifice), were brought to the north side of the altar, and killed by either the offeror, or a priest. The ...
A sin offering also occurs in 2 Chronicles 29:21 where seven bulls, seven rams, seven lambs and seven he-goats were sacrificed on the command of King Hezekiah for the kingdom, for the sanctuary, and for Judah. Like all types of sacrifices offered on the altar, the flour had to be unscented and the animal had to be completely unblemished.