Quotes about Sacrifice

Then the priest shall take the basket from your hands and place it before the altar of the LORD your God,

And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land that You, O LORD, have given me.” Then you are to place the basket before the LORD your God and bow down before Him.

Moreover, you are to build there an altar to the LORD your God, an altar of stones. You must not use any iron tool on them.

You shall build the altar of the LORD your God with uncut stones and offer upon it burnt offerings to the LORD your God.

There you are to sacrifice your peace offerings, eating them and rejoicing in the presence of the LORD your God.

Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you.

They sacrificed to demons, not to God, to gods they had not known, to newly arrived gods, which your fathers did not fear.

“Our lives for your lives!” the men agreed. “If you do not report our mission, we will show you kindness and faithfulness when the LORD gives us the land.”

At that time the LORD said to Joshua, “Make flint knives and circumcise the sons of Israel once again.”

A total of twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai.

just as Moses the servant of the LORD had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses: “an altar of uncut stones on which no iron tool has been used.” And on it they offered burnt offerings to the LORD, and they sacrificed peace offerings.

Now therefore you are under a curse and will perpetually serve as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God.”