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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]
The schedule of obligatory sacrifices included two daily lamb burnt-offerings. [64] However, the physical participation of God in the consumption of sacrificial offerings is debatable. The seeming all-time peak occurred with his conclusive victory as Yahweh when Elijah challenged worshippers of the Canaanite deity Baal to pray for fire to light ...
According to the Bible, the fire on the altar was lit directly by the hand of God and was not permitted to go out (Leviticus 6:12–13). No strange fire could be placed upon the altar. The burnt offerings would remain on the altar throughout the night before they could be removed (Leviticus 6:9).
Guilt offerings are required when a person deals deceitfully or by robbery. The priests keep the fire burning, every morning feeding it wood. The meal offering (mincha) is presented before the altar, a handful burned, and the balance eaten by the priests. On the occasion of the High Priest’s anointment, the meal offering is prepared with oil ...
Sacrifice is the offering of material possessions or the lives of animals or humans to a deity as an act of propitiation or worship. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Evidence of ritual animal sacrifice has been seen at least since ancient Hebrews and Greeks, and possibly existed before that.
The nazirite is described as being "holy" and "holy unto God"; [8] yet at the same time, he or she must bring a sin offering. This has led to divergent approaches to the nazirite in the Talmud , and later authorities, with some viewing the nazirite as an ideal, and others viewing the nazirite as a sinner.
''Offering to Molech'' in Bible Pictures and What They Teach Us, by Charles Foster, 1897.The drawing is a typical depiction of child sacrifice. Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to please or appease a deity, supernatural beings, or sacred social order, tribal, group or national loyalties in order to achieve a desired result.
Jephthah's daughter, sometimes later referred to as Seila or as Iphis, is a figure in the Hebrew Bible, whose story is recounted in Judges 11. The judge Jephthah had just won a battle over the Ammonites, and vowed he would give the first thing that came out of his house as a burnt offering to God. However, his only child, an unnamed daughter ...