Grace for All - The diffrent kinds of Burnt Offering

 

Leviticus 1

The Lord gave instructions to Moses on how men should approach his presence when giving sacrifice. There were those with bigger sacrifices than others as some had cattle 🐄 and others simply had doves. What was most important was not the sacrifice, but the instructions on how to do it just right.

Key to note were the following.

🌻 To pick a sacrifice without blemish ( a perfect offering)

🌻To give it voluntarily 

🌻 To place his hand upon it as a sign of complete surrender to the Lord.

🌻 To give from what they would afford. Whether cattle, goats or Tuttle doves.

Therefore with whatever means the Lord has given you to serve/ offer sacrifice, give him your best and do it the right way and you will get your full reward.

🌻Ref.  (Parable of the Workers in a field Mark 12:41- 44)

Then a poor widow came along and put in two small copper coins. Jesus teaches the disciples that the woman gave more than the rich. The poor woman, as a widow, would have had no source of income after her husband's death. Therefore the two small copper coins were all she had - and yet she offered them to God.

Chapter Summary 

Leviticus 1.

GOD INSTRUCTS MOSES ON BURNT SACRIFICES (1:1-2):

🌻God called Moses to the Tabernacle (Tent of Meeting) and gave him instructions for how the Israelites were supposed to offer sacrifices. 

They could either bring an offering from their herd or from their flock. 

INSTRUCTIONS FOR OFFERING OXEN (1:3-9):

🌻If an Israelite wanted to offer an ox to the Lord, he was to bring a male ox without blemish to the entrance of the Tabernacle. 

🌻After placing his hand on the ox’s head, the sacrificer was to kill the ox. 

🌻The priests were to take the blood and throw it against the bronze altar. 

🌻Then the one offering the animal was to skin it and cut it in pieces. 

🌻After washing the entrails and the legs, the pieces were to be arranged on wood on the altar and burned. 

🌻The offerings went up to heaven as a “pleasing aroma” to the Lord. 

INSTRUCTIONS FOR OFFERING SHEEP AND GOATS (1:10-13):

🌻If an Israelite man wanted to offer a goat or a sheep, he was to bring the animal to the Tabernacle and kill it on the north side of the bronze altar. 

🌻The priests were to take the blood and throw it against the sides of the altar. 

🌻The animal was then to be chopped into pieces and, after its legs and entrails were washed, burned with wood on the altar as “a food offering with a pleasing aroma to the Lord.”

INSTRUCTIONS FOR OFFERING BIRDS (1:14-17):

🌻In addition to goats, sheep, and oxen, the Israelites could offer turtledoves and pigeons. 

🌻If a bird offering was brought to the priests, the priests were to wring off the bird’s head and drain its blood on the side of the altar. 

🌻The bird’s crop was to be removed and thrown with the ashes on the east side of the altar. 

🌻The priest was then to tear the bird open by its wings (but not completely divide it) and burn it on the altar as a “food offering with a pleasing aroma” to the Lord.