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offerings in the Bible

Offerings are a thing presented or offered to God.

Thus, Cain consecrated to God of the firstfruits of the Earth, and Abel of the firstlings of the flock (Genesis 4:3-4).

Under the Levitical system different kinds of offerings are specified, and laws laid down about their presentation. These are described under their distinctive names.

Named offerings

• burnt offering
• drink offering
• flour offering
• frankincense
• free-will offering
• heaven offering
• jealousy offering
• meat offering
• peace offering
• sin offering
• trespass offering, aka guilt offering
• vintage offerings
• wave offering
• wood offering
• pigeon
• sparrow
• calf
• goat
• ram
• cake
• oil
• wafers
• wine

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• sacrifice
• daily sacrifice
• altar
• censer
• coffer
• cup of blessing
• feast
• horn
• fire
• incense
• kettle
• leaven (forbidden from offerings)
• atonement
• Leviticus
• intercession of Christ
• Pentecost
• abomination
  
  
• law of Moses
• tabernacle
• temple
• Solomon's temple
• The second temple
• Herod's temple
• high place
• high priest
  
  
• Abel
• Cain
• Aaron (two of his sons struck dead for offering unholy fire on the altar of incense)
• Athens (pagan sacrifices)
• Azazel
• Ezra's offerings
• Jephthah's vow
• Jeroboam's pagan offerings
• Mesha (sacrificed his eldest son as a burnt-offering)
• Nadab (perished for the sin of offering strange fire on the altar of burnt-offering)
• Zacharias and offering of incense
• Jephthah’s rash and tragic vow? Did he really sacrifice his daughter as a burnt offering?