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The formation of terumah is parallel to the formation of tenufah ('תְּנוּפָה, wave offering) from the verb stem nuf, "to wave," and both are found in the Hebrew Bible. [3] In a few verses, English Bible translations (such as the King James Version) have translated "heave offering," by analogy with "wave offering":
The offering containing an omer-measure of barley, described as reishit ketzirchem ("the beginning of your harvest"). [3] Josephus describes the processing of the offering as follows: After parching and crushing the little sheaf of ears and purifying the barley for grinding, they bring to the altar an issaron for God, and, having flung a ...
A guilt offering (Hebrew: אשם, romanized: ’āšām, lit. 'guilt, trespass'; plural ashamot), also referred to as a trespass offering (KJV, 1611), was a type of Biblical sacrifice, specifically a sacrifice made as a compensation payment for unintentional and certain intentional transgressions. It was distinct from the Biblical sin offering.
To bring additional offerings on Rosh Chodesh (" The New Month") — Num. 28:11; To bring additional offerings on Passover — Num. 28:19; To offer the wave offering from the meal of the new wheat — Lev. 23:10; Each man must count the Omer - seven weeks from the day the new wheat offering was brought — Lev. 23:15
The sin offering required when a priest had sinned, for which there is a similar sacrificial animal as the Yom Kippur offering, is considered by scholars to be a much later development, and only added to the text of Leviticus in the latest stages of its compilation, after sin offerings had begun to be seen as being about atonement for actual ...
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Bikkurim (Hebrew: בכורים, / b ɪ ˌ k uː ˈ r iː m, b ɪ ˈ k ʊər ɪ m /), [1] or first-fruits, are a type of sacrificial offering which was offered by ancient Israelites. In each agricultural season, the first-grown fruits were brought to the Temple and laid by the altar, and a special declaration recited.
Offerings are mentioned in the Book of Genesis, but further outlined in the later four books of the Torah, including aspects of their origins and history. [25] Cain and Abel, [ 26 ] Noah, [ 27 ] Abraham, [ 28 ] and Jacob [ 29 ] offered sacrifices, as did the Israelites at Mount Sinai.