Leviticus 1:3
If his offering be a holocaust, and of the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish, at the door of the testimony, to make the Lord favourable to him:
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Genesis 22:2He said to him: Take thy only begotten son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and go into the land of vision: and there thou shalt offer him for a holocaust upon one of the mountains which I will show thee.
Genesis 22:13Abraham lifted up his eyes, and saw behind his back a ram amongst the briers sticking fast by the horns, which he took and offered for a holocaust instead of his son.
Exodus 24:5And he sent young men of the children of Israel, and they offered holocausts, and sacrificed pacific victims of calves to the Lord.
Exodus 29:18And thou shalt offer the whole ram for a burnt offering upon the altar: it is an oblation to the Lord, a most sweet savour of the victim of the Lord.
Exodus 32:6And rising in the morning, they offered holocausts, and peace victims, and the people sat down to eat, and drink, and they rose up to play.
Exodus 35:21Offered firstfruits to the Lord with a most ready and devout mind, to make the work of the tabernacle of the testimony. Whatsoever was necessary to the service, and to the holy vestments,
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 →