(The following outline of the various sacrificial offerings and the special ceremonies and feasts of the ancient Jewish economy was originally developed as a chart by Merwin R. Thurber. It is included here by special arrangement between the author of this book and the preparer of the outline.)
NATURE: Voluntary, so far as the individual was concerned, but specified on certain occasions for the whole congregation, and in certain instances for individuals. Leviticus 1:3.
ACCOMPLISHMENT: Atonement was made-it was accepted for him. Leviticus 1:1.
| When Offered | Animals Prescribed |
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1. At will-generally. Leviticus 1:1. |
1. Any clean male animal ordinarily used for sacrifice. Leviticus 1. |
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2. Daily. Exodus 29:38-42; Numbers 28:3-8. |
2. Two male yearling lambs. |
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3. At
consecrations. Exodus 29:15-18; Leviticus 8:18-21; Numbers 7; 8. |
3. Bullocks, rams, lambs. |
| 4. On special days and feasts. | 4. On special days and feasts. |
| a. Sabbath. Numbers 28:9, 10. | a. Two additional lambs. |
| b. New moons. Numbers 28:11-14. | b. Two bullocks, one ram, seven lambs. |
| c. Feast of Unleavened Bread. Numbers 28:17-25. | c. Daily-two bullocks, one ram, seven lambs. |
| d. Day of Wave Sheaf. Leviticus 23:10-14. | d. One male yearling lamb. |
| e. Day of Pentecost. Lev. 23:17-21; Numbers 28:26-31. | e. For the day-two bullocks, one ram, seven lambs. For the bread one bullock, two rams, seven lambs. |
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First day of seventh Month. Numbers
29:1-6. |
One bullock, one ram, seven lambs, besides the monthly offering. |
| f. Day of Atonement. Leviticus 16; Numbers 29:7-11. | f. For the priest - one ram, Leviticus 16:3. For the people one ram, Leviticus 16:5. For the day one bullock, one ram, seven lambs. Numbers 29:7-11. |
| g. Feast of Tabernacles. Numbers 29:12-34. | g. Thirteen bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs on first day, decreasing bullocks daily by one to seven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs on the seventh day. |
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h. Octave of Feast of
Tabernacles. Numbers 29:35-38. |
h. One bullock, one ram, seven lambs. |
| 5. For purification. | 5. For purification. |
| a. Childbirth. Leviticus 12. | a. Lamb or pigeon or turtle dove. |
| b. Leprosy. Leviticus 14. | b. Lamb or pigeon or turtle dove. |
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c. Bloody issue. Lev.
15:13-15, 25-30. |
c. Pigeon or turtledove. |
| 6. Nazarite vow. Numbers 6. | 6. Nazarite vow. |
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a. accidental violation- pigeon or turtledove. |
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b. Fulfillment-lamb. |
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7. With sin offering of poor. Leviticus 5:7-10.
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7. Pigeon or turtledove. |
| 8. With sin offering when congregations sins through ignorance. Numbers 15:22-26. | 8. Bullock. |
Accompaniments
General
Salt. Lev. 2:13.
Meal offerings. Num. 15:2-12:
For a lamb or king: 1/10 deal of flour, 1/4 hin of oil, 1/4 hin of wine.
For a ram: 2/10 deal of flour, 1/3 hin of oil, 1/3 hin of wine.
For a bullock: 3/10 deal of
flour, 1/2 hin of oil, 1/2 hin of wine.
Incense. Lev. 2:1, 2.
Sabbaths
For each lamb: 2/10 deal of flour, with appropriate oil and drink offering (double the usual amount for each lamb).
Day of Wave Sheaf
For the lamb: 2/10 deal of flour (double), oil (probably in proportion), 1/4 hin of wine (regular). Lev. 23:13
Purification for Childbirth
Not specified.
Purification of Cleansed Leper
3/10 deal flour with oil, or 1/10 deal flour with oil.
Purification of Bloody Issue.
None.
Order of Procedure
Bullock, Sheep, or Goat. Lev. 1:3-13.
1. Offerer places hand on head of
victim, and slays him.
2. Priest sprinkles blood upon
the altar.
3. Offerer skins and cut up the animal,
washing legs and inwards in water.
4. Priest places fire, arranges
wood, and places pieces of animal in order on the fire.
5. Sacrifice is completely
consumed on altar.
Turtledove or Pigeon. Lev. 1:14-17.
1. Priest wrings off head, and
burns it on altar.
2. Squeezes out blood against the
side of altar.
3. Cuts out crop and removes
feathers.
4. Cuts bird open, but not apart.
5. Offering is completely
consumed on altar.
Disposition
Blood
Sprinkled on the altar round about. Lev. 1:5, 11, 15.
Fat, etc.
Not separated. Lev. 1:8, 12.
Wave Offering
None.
Whole Carcass
Burned on altar. Lev. 1:9, 13, 17.
Skin
Given to priest. Lev. 7:8.
Crop and Feathers
Thrown on ash heap. Lev. 1:16.
NATURE: Ordinarily voluntary. Included vows, thank offerings, and freewill offerings. Lev. 19:5; 7:15, 16. Communal feast in which the Lord, the priest, and the people shared. Lev. 3:11; 7-14, 31-33; 7:15-18; 19:5-8; Deut. 27:7: 12:17, 18.
| When Offered | Animals Prescribed |
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1. At will,
or in fulfillment of a vow. Lev. 19:5; 7:16. |
1. Any clean animal ordinarily used for sacrifice, male or
female. Leviticus 3. |
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2. At
consecrations. Ex. 29:19-28; Lev. 8:22; 9:4; Numbers 7. |
2. Ram. (Lev. 8:22), bullock and ram (Lev. 9:4), oxen,
rams, he-goats, lambs (Numbers 7). |
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3. At Pentecost, with the bread. Lev. 23:17-20. |
3. Two lambs. Lev. 23:20. |
| 4. At fulfillment of Nazarite vow. Num. 6:14, 17, 18. |
4. Ram. Num. 6:14. RULE: Ordinarily a sacrifice must be perfect to be accepted, but a free-will offering could have superfluous parts, or parts lacking. Lev. 22:21-24. |
Accompaniments
Offerings of Thanksgiving. Lev. 7:12-14.
Unleavened cakes mingled with
oil.
Unleavened wafers anointed with
oil.
Fried cakes.
Leavened bread, part of which is
waved, and given to the officiating priest
Vow and Voluntary Offering. Num. 15:3-12.
For a lamb: 1/10 deal flour, 1/4
hin oil, 1/4 hin wine.
For a ram: 2/10 deal flour, 1/3
hin oil, 1/3 hin wine.
For a bullock: 3/10 deal flour,
1/2 hin oil, 1/2 hin wine.
For All Offerings.
Salt. Lev. 2:13.
Order of Procedure
(See Leviticus 3)
1. Hand on head of victim.
2. Offerer slays animal.
3. Priest sprinkles blood on the altar round about.
4. Offerer waves breast, right shoulder, fat, etc., before
the Lord. Lev. 7:29-32.
5. Priest burns fat, etc. on altar.
6. Rest is eaten. (See Disposition.)
Disposition
Blood
Sprinkled on the altar round about. Lev. 3:2, etc.
Fat, etc.
Burned on altar. Lev. 3:3-5; 7:31.
Wave Offering
Breast and right shoulder go to priest. Lev. 7:29-36.
Rest of Carcass
Eaten by offerer. Deut. 27:7; 12:17, 18.
RULE: Thanksgiving offering must be eaten the same day. Voluntary and vow offerings may be eaten also on the second day, but no later. Lev. 7:16-18.
NATURE: Required, when any sinned through ignorance; and on special occasions to cover such sins for the whole congregation. Lev. 4:2; Num. 15:22-29.
ACCOMPLISHMENT: Atonement was made for sin. Lev. 4:35; Num. 15:24.
| When Offered | Animals Prescribed |
| 1. General--If a soul sin through ignorance. Lev. 4:2; Num. 15:27, 28. |
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| a. Priest. Lev. 4:3-12. | a. Bullock. Lev. 4:3-12. |
| b. Congregation. Lev. 4:13-21. | b. Bullock. Lev. 4:13-21. Kid. Num. 15:24. |
| c. Ruler. Lev. 4:22-26. | c. Kid of the goats, male. Lev. 4:22-26. |
| d. Common people. Lev 4:27-35. | d. Kid or lamb, female (Lev. 4:27-35); or if he is too poor, two turtledoves or pigeons (Lev. 5:7), one for a sin offering, one for a burnt offering. If he is yet poorer, 1/10 ephah of fine flour, which is a sin offering, not a meal offering. Lev. 5:11, 12. |
| Specific borderline cases in which sin offering is used. |
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| a. Perjury under oath. Lev. 5:1. |
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| b. Uncleanness from dead body. Lev. 5:2. |
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| c. Uncleanness of man. Lev. 5:3. |
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d. Rash oath. Lev. 5:4.
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| 2. Consecrations. | 2. Consecrations. |
| a. Aaron and his sons. Ex. 29:10-14, 36, 37; Lev. 8:2, 3, etc. | a. Bullock. |
| b. Princes. Numbers 7. | b. Kid. |
| c. Levites. Numbers 8. |
c. Bullock.
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| 3. Special days. | 3. Special days. |
| a. New moons. Num. 28:15. | a. Kid. Num. 28:15. |
| b. Feast of Unleavened Bread. Num. 28:17-24. | b. Kid, daily. Num. 28:22-24. |
| c. Pentecost. Lev. 23:19; Num. 28:30. | c. For the day--kid. Num. 28:30. |
| For the bread--kid. Lev.23:18, 19. | |
| d. First day of seventh month. Num. 29:5. | d. Kid. Num. 29:5. |
| e. Day of Atonement, Lev. 16; Num. 29:11. | e. One kid besides the sacrifice of the atonement. Num. 29:11. |
| f. Feast of Tabernacles. Num. 29:16-34. | f. Kid, daily. Num. 29:16-34. |
| g. Octave of Feast of Tabernacles. Num. 29:38. |
g. Goat. Num. 29:38.
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| 4. Purification. | 4. Purification. |
| a. Childbirth. Lev. 12:6, 8. | a. Pigeon. Lev. 12:6, 8. |
| b. Leprosy. Lev. 14:10, 19, 22. | b. Eve lamb or pigeon. Lev. 14:10, 19, 22. |
| c. Issue of blood. Lev. 15:14, 15, 29, 30. |
c. Pigeon. Lev. 15:14, 15, 29,
30.
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| 5. Nazarite Vow. | 5. Nazarite Vow. |
| a. Accidental violation. Num. 6:10, 11. | a. Pigeon. Num. 6:10, 11. |
| b. Fulfillment. Num. 6:14-16. |
b. Ewe lamb. Num. 6:14-16
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Accompaniments
Salt. Lev. 2:13.
Order of Procedure
Priest and Congregation. Leviticus 4.
1. Hand on head of victim.
2. Animal slain.
3. Blood sprinkled before veil in
holy place, and placed on horns of golden altar.
4. Rest of blood poured out at
foot of altar of burnt offering.
5. Fat, kidneys, etc., burned on
altar.
6. Whole animal--with skin,
inwards, dung, etc.--burned without the camp.
Ruler and Common People, Leviticus 4.
1. Hand on head of victim.
2. Animal slain.
3. Blood placed on horns of altar
of burnt offering.
4. Rest of blood poured out at
foot of altar.
5. Fat, etc., burned on altar.
6. Priest eats flesh of animal. Lev.
6:25-29; 10:16-20.
Occasional offerings apparently
follow general rule.
(For Day of Atonement sin
offerings, see under Special Ceremonies.)
Disposition
Blood
1. Priest
and congregation--sprinkled before the veil, and put on horns of golden altar. Rest
poured out. Lev. 4:6, 7, 16-18.
2. Ruler and people--put on horns of altar of burnt offering. Rest poured out. Lev.
4:25, 30, 34.
Fat, etc.
Burned on altar. Lev. 4:8-10, 19, 26, 35.
Wave Offering.
None.
Flesh
1. Priest and congregation--burned without the camp. Lev. 4:12, 21.
Skin
1. Priest
and congregation--burned with whole animal. Lev. 4:12, 21.
2. Ruler
and people not specified, but may assume it went to the priest.
RULE: "No sin offering, whereof any of the blood is brought into the tabernacle of the congregation to reconcile withal in the holy place, shall be eaten: it shall be burned in the fire." Lev. 6:30.
NATURE: Prescribed in cases of known sin.
ACCOMPLISHMENT: Atonement is made. Lev. 5:16; 6:7.
| When Offered | Animals Prescribed |
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1. In case of known sin. Lev. 6:2, 3.
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1. Ram. Lev. 6:6. |
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2. Ignorant sacrilege. Lev. 5:15. (Borderline case in which trespass offering is used.) |
2. Ram. Lev. 5:15. |
| 3. Violation of betrothed slave. Lev. 19:20, 22. |
3. Ram. Lev. 19:20-22. |
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4. Purification for leprosy. Lev. 14:12-18. |
4. Lamb. Lev. 14:10, 13, etc. |
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5. Accidental violation of Nazarite vow. Num. 6:9-12. |
5. Lamb. Num. 6:12. |
Accompaniments
Salt. Lev. 2:13.
Order of Procedure
Same as sin offering, except blood. Lev. 7:1-7.
Disposition
Same as sin offering (Lev. 7:1-7), except blood. It was sprinkled upon the altar round about, instead of being put upon the horns of the altar. Lev. 7:2.
NATURE: Nonbloody. Accompaniment of bloody offerings. Num. 15:3-4.
When offered
1. With all burnt offerings, regular, special, and personal. Num. 15:2-12, 28, 29.
2. With all peace offerings. Num. 15:3; Lev. 7:11-14.
3. Special Cases.
a. High priest's meal offering. Lev. 6:20-23.
b. The shewbread. Lev. 24:5-9.
c. The wave sheaf. Lev. 23:10-14.
d. First-fruits loaf. Lev. 23:16, 17.
e. Trial of jealousy. Num. 5:15.
f. Nazarite. Num. 6:15.
Material Prescribed
Fine flour. Lev. 2:1, 2.
Unleavened bread or cakes. Lev. 2:4.
Unleavened wafers. Lev. 2:4.
Fried cakes. Lev. 2:7.
Beaten grain. Lev. 2:14-16.
Barley meal. Num. 5:15.
RULE: No meal offering shall be made with leaven, for leaven and honey shall not come upon the altar.
EXCEPTION: The loaf of the first fruits at Pentecost and the loaf with the thank offering shall be made with leaven, but they shall not be burned on the altar. Lev. 2:12; 7:12, 13; 23:17-20.
Accompaniments
Salt. Lev. 2:13.
Oil. Lev. 2:2-7; Num. 15:4-11.
Wine. Num. 15:4-11.
Frankincense. Lev. 2:7; 24:7.
General (Leviticus 2).
1. Bring
offering to priest.
2. Priest
burns handful of flour with oil, and all frankincense; or portion of prepared
bread with oil.
3. Rest
goes to priest.
High Priest's Meal Offering
All burned. Lev. 6:23.
Shewbread
Placed on table in holy place for a week; with incense on it. Lev. 24:5-8.
Wave Sheaf and First-fruits Loaves
Waved before the Lord. Lev. 23:11.
Disposition
Flour
Handful on altar. Lev. 2:2. Rest for the priesthood in general. Lev. 7:10.
Prepared Bread
Portion on altar. Lev. 2:9. Rest to the officiating priest. Lev. 7:9.
Shewbread
To priesthood. Lev. 24:5-9.
Waved Part of Leavened Bread
In thank offering to officiating priest; rest to offerer. Lev.7:13, 14; Deut. 27:7.
First-fruits Loaves
To priest. Lev. 23:20.
NATURE: Prescribed. Sign and memorial. Ex. 13:9, 10.
ACCOMPLISHMENT: Angel passed over. Ex. 12:12, 13.
When Offered
Fourteenth of Abib, first month. Ex. 12:2, 6.
Animal Prescribed
Lamb or kid. Ex. 12:5.
Accompaniments
Bitter herbs. Ex. 12:8.
Unleavened bread. Ex. 12:8.
Wine (Jewish tradition). The Desire of Ages, p. 653.
Order of Procedure
1. Select animal on tenth of Abib.
2. Kill on fourteenth at even.
3. Sprinkle blood on doorposts and lintel.
4. Roast animal entire.
5. Eat with bitter herbs.
6. Burn what remains.
Disposition
Blood
On doorpost and lintel.
Flesh
Eaten by offerer and friends.
Remainder
Burned.
NATURE: Prescribed.
ACCOMPLISHMENT: Brought prayers before God. Ps. 141:2; Rev. 8:3.
When Offered
1. Morning and evening. Ex. 30:7, 8.
2. Day of Atonement. Lev. 16:12, 13.
3. Special occasions. Num. 16:46, 47.
Material Prescribed
Combination of sweet spices. Ex. 30:34-48.
Accompaniments
None.
Order of Procedure
Burned before the Lord.
TEXTS: Leviticus 16; 23:27-32; Num. 29:7-11; Ex. 30:10.
OFFERINGS: Daily burnt offering; bullock for a sin offering and ram for a burnt offering for the priest; two goats for a sin offering and a ram for a burnt offering for the people; and for the day, one bullock, one ram, seven lambs, for a burnt offering, and one kid for a sin offering.
ATONEMENT CEREMONIES
1. High
priest bathes and changes to white garments, after performing the morning
ceremonies in his pontifical robes.
2. Presents
bullock of priestly sin offering before the Lord; hands on head.
3. Presents
goats, and casts lots to determine which shall be for Jehovah and which for
Azazel.
4. Kills
bullock and catches blood.
5. Takes
censer and incense into most holy place and puts, incense on coals.
6. Returns
to court for blood of bullock, which he takes into most holy place and
sprinkles on the mercy scat and before the mercy scat seven times.
7. Returns'
to court, kills Lord's goat, and enters most holy place with the blood,
sprinkling as before.
8. Returns
to holy place, and makes atonement for the holy things.
9. Returns
to court, and makes atonement for the altar, sprinkling it with the blood of
both bullock and goat seven times, and placing blood on the horns of the altar.
10. Confesses sins of Israel
over head of live goat, and sends him into wilderness by a fit man.
11. Resumes pontifical robes,
and offers fat of sin offerings, the burnt offerings for himself and the
people, the burnt offerings for the day, and kid of the sin offering for the
day.
TEXT: Numbers 6:1-21.
Accidental Violation
OFFERINGS: Two pigeons-one for a burnt offering and one for a sin offering-and a lamb for a trespass offering.
PROCEDURE
1. Shave
head on first and seventh days of the cleansing.
2. On
eighth day bring two pigeons to the priest, one for a sin offering and one for
a burnt offering.
3. Bring
a lamb for a trespass offering.
4. Shall
lose the days that were before the defilement.
Fulfillment
OFFERINGS: Male lamb for a burnt offering, ewe lamb for a sin offering, one ram for a peace offering, basket of unleavened bread; cakes of fine flour, and the meal and drink offerings of the appropriate animals.
PROCEDURE
1. Offer
sin offering.
2. Offer
burnt offering.
3. Offer
peace offering with accompaniments.
4. Nazarite
shaves head, and burns hair.
5. Wave
heave offering.
TEXT: Leviticus 14:1-32.
Preliminary Ceremony
OFFERINGS: Two sparrows, cedar wood, scarlet, hyssop, and running water.
PROCEDURE
1.Kill
one bird over earthen vessel filled with running water.
2.Dip
living bird, cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop into water and blood, and sprinkle
leper seven times.
3.Let
living bird go free.
4.Leper
shaves and bathes on seventh day.
5.Leper
returns on eighth day for concluding ceremonies and offerings.
(This same ceremony is used to cleanse a house infested with plague. Leviticus 14:48-53.)
Main Ceremony
OFFERINGS: One male lamb for a trespass offering; one male lamb for a burnt offering; one ewe lamb for a sin offering; three-tenths deal flour mingled with oil for meal offering; and one log of oil.
PROCEDURE
1.Slay
trespass offering, and wave it and the log of oil before the Lord.
2.Put
some of the blood on the right ear, right thumb, and right great toe of the
offerer.
3.Sprinkle
oil seven times before the Lord.
4.Put
oil on car, thumb, and toe where blood was put.
5.Pour
oil over head of offerer.
6.Offer
sin offering.
7.Offer
burnt offering and meal offering.
(In case of poverty, it will suffice to have one lamb for a trespass offering, and two pigeons-one for a sin offering and one for a burnt offering.)
TEXT: Numbers 19.
USE: For purification from defilement received from dead - body, bone, grave, etc.
PREPARATION
(Any clean person may perform, but priest shall oversee.)
1.Take
red heifer without the camp.
2.Slay
animal.
3.Priest
sprinkles blood toward the sanctuary seven times.
4.Whole
animal is burned.
5.Priest
casts cedar wood, scarlet, and hyssop into the fire.
6.Clean
man gathers ashes, and stores them in a clean place without the camp.
PROCEDURE
(Any clean person may officiate.)
1.Mix
ashes and running water.
2.Sprinkle
place of death first, if house or tent is involved.
3.Sprinkle
unclean person.
4.Sprinkle
unclean person on third and seventh day.
5.'Unclean
person shall bathe himself on seventh day, and shall be clean at even.
TEXT: Leviticus 12.
SEPARATION: For a son, seven days plus thirty-three days. For a daughter, fourteen days plus sixty-six days.
OFFERINGS: Lamb for a burnt offering, and pigeon for a sin offering. In case of poverty, two young pigeons will do-one for a burnt offering, and one for a sin offering.
TEXT: Leviticus 15.
OFFERING: Two pigeons, one for a burnt offering and one for a sin offering.
PROCEDURE
1.Number
seven days from time issue stops.
2.Bathe
on seventh day.
3.Bring
two pigeons to priest on eighth day.
4.Offer
one for sin offering and one for burnt offering.
TEXT: Numbers 5:11-31.
OFFERING: One-tenth ephah of barley flour.
OCCASION: If a man is jealous of his wife.
PROCEDURE
1.Come
before the priest with offering.
2.Priest
shall prepare bitter water by mixing dust of the floor with holy water in an
earthen vessel.
3.Priest
pronounces curses for infidelity, writes them in a book, and blots them with
the bitter water.
4.Priest
waves meal offering before the Lord, and burns a handful on the altar.
5.The
woman drinks the water.
6.If
she is innocent, nothing happens; if she is guilty, the curses take effect.
TEXT: Deuteronomy 21:1-9.
OFFERING: Heifer not wrought with, and not yoked.
PROCEDURE
1.Measure
from dead man to nearest city.
2.Elders
of that city bring heifer to rough valley, unsown.
3.Strike
off the heifer's neck.
4.Priests
come near.
5.Elders
wash hands over the heifer.
6.Elders
proclaim their innocence.
TEXTS: Exodus 20: 8-11; Numbers 28:9, 10.
TIME: Every seventh day is holy.
OFFERING: Two lambs for a burnt offering, besides the continual burnt offering.
TEXT: Numbers 28:11-15.
TIME: First day of every month.
OFFERING: Two bullocks, one ram, seven lambs, for a burnt offering, with appropriate meal and drink offerings. One kid for a sin offering.
TEXTS: Exodus 12; Leviticus 23:5; Numbers 9:1-14; 28:16; Deuteronomy 16:14.
TIME: Fourteenth of Abib, the first month.
OFFERING: Paschal lamb.
TEXTS: Exodus 12:15-20; M5-9; Leviticus 23:6-8; Numbers 28:17-25; Deuteronomy 16:8.
TIME: Fifteenth to twenty-first of Abib.
OFFERINGS: For burnt offering, daily, two bullocks, one ram, seven lambs, with appropriate meal offerings; and one kid for a sin offering.
CEREMONIAL SABBATH: On the first day and the seventh day shall be holy convocations. No servile work may be done.
TEXT: Leviticus 23:10-14.
TIME: Sixteenth of Abib, the second day of the Feast of Unleavened Bread.
OFFERINGS: Wave sheaf or omer of barley, waved before the Lord; yearling lamb and its appropriate meal offering.
"Ye shall eat neither bread, nor parched corn, nor green ears, until the selfsame day that you have brought an offering unto your God." Leviticus 23:14.
TEXTS: Leviticus 23:15-21; Numbers 28:26-31; Deuteronomy 16:9-11.
TIME: Fifty days from the wave sheaf.
OFFERINGS: Two loaves to be waved; and -
1.For
the day, two bullocks, one ram, seven lambs, for a burnt offering, with
appropriate meal offerings; one kid for a sin offering. Numbers 28:26-30.
2.For
the bread, one bullock, two rams, seven lambs, for a burnt offering, with
appropriate meal offering; one kid for a sin offering; two lambs for a peace
offering. Leviticus 23:15-21.
CEREMONIAL SABBATH: On this day shall be a holy convocation. No servile work may be done.
TEXTS: Leviticus 23:24, 25; Numbers 29:1-6.
TIME: First day of seventh month.
OFFERINGS: One bullock, one ram, seven lambs, for a burnt offering, with appropriate meal offering; one kid for a sin offering.
CEREMONIAL SABBATH: On this day shall be a holy convocation. No servile work may be done.
TEXTS: Leviticus 16; 23:27-32; Numbers 29:7-11.
TIME: Tenth day of seventh month.
OFFERINGS: (See under Special Ceremonies, Day of Atonement.)
CEREMONIAL SABBATH: On this day shall be a holy convocation. "You shall afflict your souls." No manner of work may be done.
TEXTS: Leviticus 23:34-43; Numbers 29:12-34; Deuteronomy 16:13-15.
TIME: Fifteenth to twenty-first of seventh month.
OFFERINGS: First day, thirteen bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs, for a burnt offering, and one kid for a sin offering. Each day thereafter, the number of bullocks is reduced by one, until on the last day the offering is seven bullocks, two rams, fourteen lambs for a burnt offering, and one kid for a sin offering.
CEREMONIAL SABBATH: On this day shall be a holy convocation. No servile work may be done.
TEXTS: Leviticus 23:36, 39; Numbers 29:35-38.
TIME: Twenty-second day of seventh month.
OFFERINGS: One bullock, one ram, seven lambs, for a burnt offering; one kid for a sin offering.
CEREMONIAL SABBATH: On this day shall be a solemn assembly. No servile work may be done.
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