Leviticus 1:2
“Speak to the sons of Israel, and you have said to them: Any man of you, when he brings an offering near to YHWH out of the livestock—out of the herd or out of the flock—you bring your offering near.
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In Context
1And YHWH calls to Moses, and speaks to him out of the Tent of Meeting, saying,
Cross References
Genesis 4:5and to Cain and to his present He has not looked; and it is very displeasing to Cain, and his countenance is fallen.
Leviticus 22:19[you bring near] at your pleasure a perfect one, a male of the herd, of the sheep or of the goats;
Numbers 7:15one bullock, a son of the herd, one ram, one lamb, a son of a year, for a burnt-offering;
1 Chronicles 16:29Ascribe to YHWH the glory of His Name, || Lift up a present, and come before Him. Bow yourselves to YHWH, || In the beauty of holiness.
Romans 12:1I call on you, therefore, brothers, through the compassions of God, to present your bodies [as] a sacrifice—living, sanctified, acceptable to God—your intelligent service;
Ephesians 5:2and walk in love, as the Christ also loved us, and gave Himself for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God for an odor of a refreshing fragrance,
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 →