Quotes about Sacrifice
Keep His statutes and commandments, which I am giving you today, so that you and your children after you may prosper, and that you may live long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you for all time.
— Deuteronomy 4:40
You shall not worship the LORD your God in this way.
— Deuteronomy 12:4
Be careful not to offer your burnt offerings in just any place you see;
— Deuteronomy 12:13
But whenever you want, you may slaughter and eat meat within any of your gates, according to the blessing the LORD your God has given you. Both the ceremonially clean and unclean may eat it as they would a gazelle or deer,
— Deuteronomy 12:15
but you must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
— Deuteronomy 12:16
Instead, you must eat them in the presence of the LORD your God at the place the LORD your God will choose—you, your sons and daughters, your menservants and maidservants, and the Levite within your gates. Rejoice before the LORD your God in all you do,
— Deuteronomy 12:18
If the place where the LORD your God chooses to put His Name is too far from you, then you may slaughter any of the herd or flock He has given you, as I have commanded you, and you may eat it within your gates whenever you want.
— Deuteronomy 12:21
Only be sure not to eat the blood, because the blood is the life, and you must not eat the life with the meat.
— Deuteronomy 12:23
You must not eat the blood; pour it on the ground like water.
— Deuteronomy 12:24
But you are to take your holy things and your vow offerings and go to the place the LORD will choose.
— Deuteronomy 12:26
Present the meat and blood of your burnt offerings on the altar of the LORD your God. The blood of your other sacrifices must be poured out beside the altar of the LORD your God, but you may eat the meat.
— Deuteronomy 12:27
Instead, you must surely kill him. Your hand must be the first against him to put him to death, and then the hands of all the people.
— Deuteronomy 13:9