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Leviticus 1:3

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If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord.
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  1. Deuteronomy 15:21Rank 1 from verse 3
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    21And if there be any blemish therein, as if it be lame, or blind, or have any ill blemish, thou shalt not sacrifice it unto the Lord thy God.

  2. Hebrews 9:14Rank 2 from verse 3
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    14How much more shall the blood of Christ, who through the eternal Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purge your conscience from dead works to serve the living God?

  3. Leviticus 22:19–24Rank 3 from verse 3
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    19Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.

    20But whatsoever hath a blemish, that shall ye not offer: for it shall not be acceptable for you.

    21And whosoever offereth a sacrifice of peace offerings unto the Lord to accomplish his vow, or a freewill offering in beeves or sheep, it shall be perfect to be accepted; there shall be no blemish therein.

    22Blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed, ye shall not offer these unto the Lord, nor make an offering by fire of them upon the altar unto the Lord.

    23Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing superfluous or lacking in his parts, that mayest thou offer for a freewill offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.

    24Ye shall not offer unto the Lord that which is bruised, or crushed, or broken, or cut; neither shall ye make any offering thereof in your land.

  4. Exodus 12:5Rank 4 from verse 3
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    5Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:

  5. Ephesians 5:27Rank 5 from verse 3
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    27That he might present it to himself a glorious church, not having spot, or wrinkle, or any such thing; but that it should be holy and without blemish.

  6. Hebrews 10:8–10Rank 6 from verse 3
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    8Above when he said, Sacrifice and offering and burnt offerings and offering for sin thou wouldest not, neither hadst pleasure therein; which are offered by the law;

    9Then said he, Lo, I come to do thy will, O God. He taketh away the first, that he may establish the second.

    10By the which will we are sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

  7. Deuteronomy 17:1Rank 7 from verse 3
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    1THOU shalt not sacrifice unto the Lord thy God any bullock, or sheep, wherein is blemish, or any evilfavouredness: for that is an abomination unto the Lord thy God.

  8. Hebrews 7:26Rank 8 from verse 3
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    26For such an high priest became us, who is holy, harmless, undefiled, separate from sinners, and made higher than the heavens;

  9. 1 Peter 1:18–19Rank 9 from verse 3
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    18Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

    19But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:

  10. Ephesians 2:18Rank 10 from verse 3
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    18For through him we both have access by one Spirit unto the Father.

  11. Genesis 22:8Rank 11 from verse 3
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    8And Abraham said, My son, God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering: so they went both of them together.

  12. Deuteronomy 12:5–6Rank 12 from verse 3
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    5But unto the place which the Lord your God shall choose out of all your tribes to put his name there, even unto his habitation shall ye seek, and thither thou shalt come:

    6And thither ye shall bring your burnt offerings, and your sacrifices, and your tithes, and heave offerings of your hand, and your vows, and your freewill offerings, and the firstlings of your herds and of your flocks:

  13. John 1:36Rank 13 from verse 3
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    36And looking upon Jesus as he walked, he saith, Behold the Lamb of God!

  14. Leviticus 6:9–13Rank 14 from verse 3
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    9Command Aaron and his sons, saying, This is the law of the burnt offering: It is the burnt offering, because of the burning upon the altar all night unto the morning, and the fire of the altar shall be burning in it.

    10And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.

    11And he shall put off his garments, and put on other garments, and carry forth the ashes without the camp unto a clean place.

    12And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings.

    13The fire shall ever be burning upon the altar; it shall never go out.

  15. 2 Corinthians 9:7Rank 15 from verse 3
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    7Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give; not grudgingly, or of necessity: for God loveth a cheerful giver.

  16. Deuteronomy 12:13–14Rank 16 from verse 3
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    13Take heed to thyself that thou offer not thy burnt offerings in every place that thou seest:

    14But in the place which the Lord shall choose in one of thy tribes, there thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, and there thou shalt do all that I command thee.

  17. Malachi 1:14Rank 17 from verse 3
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    14But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the Lord of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.

  18. Exodus 24:5Rank 18 from verse 3
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    5And he sent young men of the children of Israel, which offered burnt offerings, and sacrificed peace offerings of oxen unto the Lord.

  19. Ezekiel 20:40Rank 19 from verse 3
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    40For in mine holy mountain, in the mountain of the height of Israel, saith the Lord God, there shall all the house of Israel, all of them in the land, serve me: there will I accept them, and there will I require your offerings, and the firstfruits of your oblations, with all your holy things.

  20. Genesis 22:13Rank 20 from verse 3
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    13And Abraham lifted up his eyes, and looked, and behold behind him a ram caught in a thicket by his horns: and Abraham went and took the ram, and offered him up for a burnt offering in the stead of his son.

  21. Leviticus 3:1Rank 21 from verse 3
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    1AND if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the Lord.

  22. Numbers 29:13Rank 22 from verse 3
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    13And ye shall offer a burnt offering, a sacrifice made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord; thirteen young bullocks, two rams, and fourteen lambs of the first year; they shall be without blemish:

  23. Psalms 110:3Rank 23 from verse 3
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    3Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.

  24. Psalms 40:8Rank 24 from verse 3
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    8I delight to do thy will, O my God: yea, thy law is within my heart.

  25. Exodus 29:18Rank 25 from verse 3
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    18And thou shalt burn the whole ram upon the altar: it is a burnt offering unto the Lord: it is a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

  26. Exodus 29:42Rank 26 from verse 3
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    42This shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord: where I will meet you, to speak there unto thee.

  27. Exodus 32:6Rank 27 from verse 3
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    6And they rose up early on the morrow, and offered burnt offerings, and brought peace offerings; and the people sat down to eat and to drink, and rose up to play.

  28. Isaiah 1:11Rank 28 from verse 3
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    11To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the Lord: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

  29. John 10:9Rank 29 from verse 3
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    9I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

  30. Luke 1:35Rank 30 from verse 3
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    35And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee: therefore also that holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the Son of God.

  31. Numbers 29:8–11Rank 31 from verse 3
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    8But ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the Lord for a sweet savour; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year; they shall be unto you without blemish:

    9And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals to a bullock, and two tenth deals to one ram,

    10A several tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:

    11One kid of the goats for a sin offering; beside the sin offering of atonement, and the continual burnt offering, and the meat offering of it, and their drink offerings.

  32. Genesis 22:2Rank 32 from verse 3
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    2And he said, Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.

  33. Genesis 8:20Rank 33 from verse 3
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    20¶ And Noah builded an altar unto the Lord; and took of every clean beast, and of every clean fowl, and offered burnt offerings on the altar.

  34. Numbers 23:10–11Rank 34 from verse 3
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    10Who can count the dust of Jacob, and the number of the fourth part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous, and let my last end be like his!

    11And Balak said unto Balaam, What hast thou done unto me? I took thee to curse mine enemies, and, behold, thou hast blessed them altogether.

  35. Numbers 23:3Rank 35 from verse 3
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    3And Balaam said unto Balak, Stand by thy burnt offering, and I will go: peradventure the Lord will come to meet me: and whatsoever he sheweth me I will tell thee. And he went to an high place.

  36. Zechariah 13:7Rank 36 from verse 3
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    7¶ Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the Lord of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and I will turn mine hand upon the little ones.

  37. 2 Corinthians 8:12Rank 37 from verse 3
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    12For if there be first a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.

  38. Exodus 29:4Rank 38 from verse 3
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    4And Aaron and his sons thou shalt bring unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, and shalt wash them with water.

  39. Exodus 35:5Rank 39 from verse 3
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    5Take ye from among you an offering unto the Lord: whosoever is of a willing heart, let him bring it, an offering of the Lord; gold, and silver, and brass,

  40. John 10:7Rank 40 from verse 3
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    7Then said Jesus unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, I am the door of the sheep.

  41. Leviticus 17:9Rank 41 from verse 3
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    9And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer it unto the Lord; even that man shall be cut off from among his people.

  42. Leviticus 4:23Rank 42 from verse 3
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    23Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish:

  43. Numbers 23:19Rank 43 from verse 3
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    19God is not a man, that he should lie; neither the son of man, that he should repent: hath he said, and shall he not do it? or hath he spoken, and shall he not make it good?

  44. Exodus 35:21Rank 44 from verse 3
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    21And they came, every one whose heart stirred him up, and every one whom his spirit made willing, and they brought the Lord’s offering to the work of the tabernacle of the congregation, and for all his service, and for the holy garments.

  45. Exodus 35:29Rank 45 from verse 3
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    29The children of Israel brought a willing offering unto the Lord, every man and woman, whose heart made them willing to bring for all manner of work, which the Lord had commanded to be made by the hand of Moses.

  46. Exodus 36:3Rank 46 from verse 3
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    3And they received of Moses all the offering, which the children of Israel had brought for the work of the service of the sanctuary, to make it withal. And they brought yet unto him free offerings every morning.

  47. Exodus 38:1Rank 47 from verse 3
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    1AND he made the altar of burnt offering of shittim wood: five cubits was the length thereof, and five cubits the breadth thereof; it was foursquare; and three cubits the height thereof.

  48. Leviticus 16:7Rank 48 from verse 3
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    7And he shall take the two goats, and present them before the Lord at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

  49. Leviticus 17:4Rank 49 from verse 3
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    4And bringeth it not unto the door of the tabernacle of the congregation, to offer an offering unto the Lord before the tabernacle of the Lord; blood shall be imputed unto that man; he hath shed blood; and that man shall be cut off from among his people:

  50. Leviticus 7:16Rank 50 from verse 3
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    16But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:

  51. Leviticus 8:18Rank 51 from verse 3
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    18¶ And he brought the ram for the burnt offering: and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.

  52. Leviticus 8:21Rank 52 from verse 3
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    21And he washed the inwards and the legs in water; and Moses burnt the whole ram upon the altar: it was a burnt sacrifice for a sweet savour, and an offering made by fire unto the Lord; as the Lord commanded Moses.

  53. Numbers 23:23–24Rank 53 from verse 3
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    23Surely there is no enchantment against Jacob, neither is there any divination against Israel: according to this time it shall be said of Jacob and of Israel, What hath God wrought!

    24Behold, the people shall rise up as a great lion, and lift up himself as a young lion: he shall not lie down until he eat of the prey, and drink the blood of the slain.

  54. Numbers 23:30Rank 54 from verse 3
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    30And Balak did as Balaam had said, and offered a bullock and a ram on every altar.

  55. Deuteronomy 12:27Rank 55 from verse 3
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    27And thou shalt offer thy burnt offerings, the flesh and the blood, upon the altar of the Lord thy God: and the blood of thy sacrifices shall be poured out upon the altar of the Lord thy God, and thou shalt eat the flesh.

  56. Numbers 23:27Rank 56 from verse 3
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    27¶ And Balak said unto Balaam, Come, I pray thee, I will bring thee unto another place; peradventure it will please God that thou mayest curse me them from thence.

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Leviticus 1:3

COMBINED MEANING

offering

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Sense 1: A gift, contribution, sacrifice, or other thing presented to God or another. Sense 2: The act of presenting, bringing, or giving something; also the present-participial form of offer.

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sacrifice

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Sense 1: An offering presented to God or to a false god, or the thing so offered. Sense 2: To present, slay, or consume something as such an offering.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Cawdrey 1604 · Webster 1828

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let

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Sense 1: To allow or permit; in older KJV use, also to hinder or restrain. Sense 2: To lower or send down.

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without

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Outside or on the exterior; beyond a boundary; lacking, absent, free from, not accompanied by, or apart from the person, thing, condition, means, or relation named.

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blemish

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1. A physical defect, injury, spot, or deformity. 2. Figuratively, a fault, stain, or imperfection.

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shall

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An auxiliary verb expressing future action, intention, promise, command, requirement, or determination.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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voluntary

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Proceeding from one's own will or choice; not compelled.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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tabernacle

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Sense 1: A tent, booth, or dwelling; especially Israel’s sacred tent of worship. Sense 2: Figuratively, the body as a dwelling.

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congregation

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1. A gathered assembly, company, or community of people, or the people considered together as a body. 2. In the fixed expressions "tabernacle of the congregation" and "tent of the congregation," part of the name of the appointed meeting place.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

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before

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Earlier than in time; in front of; in the presence of; or prior in order or rank.

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1:1AND the Lord called unto Moses, and spake unto him out of the tabernacle of the congregation, saying,

1:2Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them, If any man of you bring an offering unto the Lord, ye shall bring your offering of the cattle, even of the herd, and of the flock.

1:3If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the Lord.

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1:4And he shall put his hand upon the head of the burnt offering; and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him.

1:5And he shall kill the bullock before the Lord: and the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall bring the blood, and sprinkle the blood round about upon the altar that is by the door of the tabernacle of the congregation.

1:6And he shall flay the burnt offering, and cut it into his pieces.

1:7And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire upon the altar, and lay the wood in order upon the fire:

1:8And the priests, Aaron’s sons, shall lay the parts, the head, and the fat, in order upon the wood that is on the fire which is upon the altar:

1:9But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the Lord.

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