Leviticus 1:2
Give these orders to the children of Israel: When anyone of you makes an offering to the Lord, you are to take it from the cattle, from the herd or from the flock.
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1And the voice of the Lord came to Moses out of the Tent of meeting, saying,
Cross References
Genesis 4:5But in Cain and his offering he had no pleasure. And Cain was angry and his face became sad.
Leviticus 22:19So that it may be pleasing to the Lord, let him give a male, without any mark, from among the oxen or the sheep or the goats.
Numbers 7:15One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering;
1 Chronicles 16:29Give to the Lord the glory of his name; take with you an offering and come before him; give worship to the Lord in holy robes.
Romans 12:1For this reason I make request to you, brothers, by the mercies of God, that you will give your bodies as a living offering, holy, pleasing to God, which is the worship it is right for you to give him.
Ephesians 5:2And be living in love, even as Christ had love for you, and gave himself up for us, an offering to God for a perfume of a sweet smell.
Matthew Henry on Leviticus 1:2-3
Leviticus There is nothing historical in all this book of Leviticus except the account which it gives us of the consecration of the priesthood ( ch. viii.-ix. ), of the punishment of Nadab and Abihu, by the hand of God, for offering strange fire ( ch. x ), and of Shelomith's son, by the hand of the magistrate, for blasphemy ( ch. xxiv ). All the rest of the book is taken up with the laws, chiefly the ecclesiastical laws, which God gave to Israel by Moses, concerning their sacrifices and offerings, their meats and… Read the whole commentary →