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  • slaughter or sacrifice") in the Hebrew Bible were typically made of earth (Exodus 20:24) or unwrought stone (20:25). Altars were generally erected in conspicuous...
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    obligatory sacrifices, including burnt-offerings, appears in the Book of Numbers 28:1-30:1. These include daily offerings, as well as additional offerings for...
    14 KB (1,841 words) - 12:54, 10 July 2024
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    in the Talmud. Whole offerings were quite rare in early times, but as the ritual became more fixed and statutory, and the concentration of sacrifice into...
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  • Korban (redirect from Sacrifices in judaism)
    Temple, sacrifices were prohibited because there was no longer a Temple, the only place allowed by halakha for sacrifices. Offering of sacrifices was briefly...
    55 KB (7,263 words) - 16:29, 3 July 2024
  • ancient times in many cultures as a seasoning, a preservative, a disinfectant, a component of ceremonial offerings, and as a unit of exchange. The Bible contains...
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    Moloch (category Human sacrifice in folklore and mythology)
    or Molek is a word which appears in the Hebrew Bible several times, primarily in the Book of Leviticus. The Bible strongly condemns practices that are...
    41 KB (5,233 words) - 15:46, 2 August 2024
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    incense. The Hebrew Bible says that Yahweh commanded the Israelites to offer offerings and sacrifices on various altars. The sacrifices were only to be offered...
    65 KB (7,743 words) - 03:46, 15 February 2024
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    bringing sacrifices. Although sacrifices could include bloodless offerings (grain and wine), the most important were animal sacrifices. Blood sacrifices were...
    39 KB (5,052 words) - 10:28, 29 June 2024
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    was another common theme in ancient religious sacrifices, such as sacrifices to the Aztec god of agriculture Xipe Totec. In ancient Japan, legends talk...
    138 KB (15,291 words) - 03:11, 1 August 2024
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    infant sacrifices occurred at certain times. Child sacrifice was preferred when there was a time of crisis and transitional times such as famine and drought...
    41 KB (6,325 words) - 12:50, 3 July 2024
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    chapter 22 of the Book of Genesis in the Hebrew Bible. In the biblical narrative, God orders Abraham to sacrifice his son Isaac at Moriah. As Abraham...
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  • the term "gift offering" originally referred to all voluntary sacrifices, but that it later came to just refer to non-meat offerings. The quintessential...
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  • April 2016. Gift offerings (nedavah "voluntary offerings"): Burnt offerings (Lev. 1.1-17), Grain offerings (minḥa, Lev. 2.1-3.17), Sacrifice of well-being...
    16 KB (2,260 words) - 07:13, 26 December 2023
  • title of the film and source novel derives from the Bible, referring to a "sacrifice by fire" and a "gift offered to God." Burnt Offerings was directed by...
    28 KB (2,744 words) - 06:29, 27 May 2024
  • Book of Leviticus (category Tabernacle and Temples in Jerusalem)
    sin) offerings (chapters 1–5) Instructions for the priests (6:1–7:38) The various offerings, with the addition of the priests' cereal offering (6:1–7:36)...
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    demonstrated by how it is referenced throughout the Bible, and by how its use was mandated with most sacrifices (Leviticus 2:13). Salt was obtained from the...
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  • Tophet (category Hebrew Bible places)
    sacrifice. Traditionally, the sacrifices have been ascribed to a god named Moloch. The Bible condemns and forbids these sacrifices, and the tophet is eventually...
    40 KB (5,182 words) - 05:51, 29 July 2024
  • Nazirite (category Hebrew words and phrases in the Hebrew Bible)
    describes in detail the sacrifices to be offered at the conclusion of the period. The nazirite would make three offerings: a lamb as a burnt offering, a ewe...
    37 KB (5,107 words) - 17:20, 11 July 2024
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    Vayikra (parashah) (category Weekly Torah readings in Adar)
    (burnt offerings); 40:7 (sacrifices); 50:3–23 (sacrifices of thanksgiving); 51:16–19 (sacrifices); 66:13–15 (burnt offerings); 107:22 (sacrifices of thanksgiving);...
    134 KB (16,538 words) - 02:44, 18 April 2024
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    Like other Greek religious thanks-offerings, offerings took the form of animal sacrifice, offerings of food and drink, and ritual dedications. News of military...
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