(The Burnt Offerings)
(Exodus 20:24)

Exodus 20:24 “You must build an altar for me made out of dirt. Sacrifice your burnt offerings and your fellowship offerings, your sheep, goats, and cattle on it. Wherever I choose to have my name remembered, I will come to you and bless you.

The Offerings that God spoke to Moses about were a means of worship as well as sacrifice for personal forgiveness and restoration with God. Many of the Offerings were associated with the Burnt Offering Altar.

The priests sacrificed various offerings to God, including for their own sins as well as for the sins of the people (both acknowledged and unknown sins). Some of the offerings were regular and frequent; others were on an “as needed” provision. The major offerings are:

Burnt Offering
(takes you to part of the Burnt Offering Altar page for these details) Meal Offering, Sin Offering, Trespass Offering, Peace Offering, Drink Offering

THE BURNT OFFERING
• To be offered only to the Lord. Judges 13:16
• Specially acceptable. Genesis 8:21; Leviticus 1:9, 13, 17
• The most ancient of all sacrifices. Genesis 4:4; Genesis 8:20; Genesis 22:2, 13; Job 1:5
• Offered by the Jews before the law. Exodus 10:25; Exodus 24:5

TO BE TAKEN FROM
• The flock or herd. Leviticus 1:2
• The fowls. Leviticus 1:14
• Was an atonement for sin. Leviticus 9:7
• Guilt transferred to, by imposition of hands. Leviticus 1:4; Numbers 8:12

 REQUIRED TO BE
• Killed, if a beast, by the person who brought it. Leviticus 1:5, 11
• Killed, if a bird, by the priest. Leviticus 1:15
• For the people at large, killed and prepared by the Levites. Ezekiel 44:11
• A male without blemish. Leviticus 1:3; Leviticus 22:19
• Voluntary. Leviticus 1:3; Leviticus 22:18-19
• Presented at the door of the tabernacle. Leviticus 1:3; Deut. 12:6, 11, 14
• Offered by priests only. Leviticus 1:9; Ezekiel 44:15
• Offered in righteousness. Psalm 51:19
• Entirely burned. Leviticus 1:8-9, 12-13; Leviticus 6:9
• Blood of, sprinkled round about upon the altar. Leviticus 1:5, 11
• If a bird, the blood was wrung out at the side of the altar. Leviticus 1:15
• Ashes of, collected at foot of the altar, and conveyed without the camp. Leviticus 6:11
• Skin of, given to the priests for clothing. Leviticus 7:8; Genesis 3:21

WAS OFFERED
• Every morning and evening. Exodus 29:38-42
• Every sabbath day. Numbers 28:9-10
• The first day of every month. Numbers 28:11
• The seven days of unleavened bread. Numbers 28:19, 24
• The day of atonement. Leviticus 16:3, 5; Numbers 29:8
• At consecration of Levites. Numbers 8:12
• At consecration priests. Leviticus 9:2, 12-14
• At consecration of kings. 1 Chron. 29:21-23
• At purification of women. Leviticus 12:6
• For Nazarites after defilement, or at the end of their vow. Numbers 6:11, 14
• For the healed leper. Leviticus 14:13, 19-20
• At dedication of sacred places. Numbers 7:15; 1 Kings 8:64
• After great mercies. 1 Samuel 6:14; 2 Samuel 24:22, 25
• Before going to war. 1 Samuel 7:9
• With sounds of trumpets at feasts. Numbers 10:10
• The fat of all peace offerings laid on, and consumed with the daily. Leviticus 3:5; Leviticus 6:12
• Of the wicked, not accepted by God. Isaiah 1:10-11; Jeremiah 6:19-20; Amos 5:22
• Obedience better than. 1 Samuel 15:22; Jeremiah 7:21-23
• Knowledge of God better than. Hosea 6:6
• Love of God better than. Mark 12:33
• Abraham tried by the command to offer Isaac as. Genesis 22:1-24
• Incapable of removing sin, and reconciling to God. Psalm 40:6; Psalm 50:8; Hebrews 10:6
• The most costly, no adequate tribute to God. Isaiah 40:16; Psalm 50:9-13
• Guilt of unauthorised persons offering. 1 Samuel 13:12-13
• Guilt of offering, except in the place appointed. Leviticus 17:8-9
• Of human victims execrated. Deut. 12:31; 2 Kings 3:27; Jeremiah 7:31; Jeremiah 19:5

ILLUSTRATIVE OF
• The offering of Christ. Ephs. 5:2; Hebrews 10:8-10
• Devotedness to God. Romans 12:1