Amos 4:5

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let that which is leavened be burned as a praise-offering, let the news of your free offerings be given out publicly; for this is pleasing to you, O children of Israel, says the Lord.

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  • Ps 81:12 : 12 So I gave them up to the desires of their hearts; that they might go after their evil purposes.
  • Lev 22:18-21 : 18 Say to Aaron and to his sons and to all the children of Israel, If any man of the children of Israel, or of another nation living in Israel, makes an offering, given because of an oath or freely given to the Lord for a burned offering; 19 So 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. 20 But anything which has a mark you may not give; it will not make you pleasing to the Lord. 21 And whoever makes a peace-offering to the Lord, in payment of an oath or as a free offering, from the herd or the flock, if it is to be pleasing to the Lord, let it be free from any mark or damage.
  • Lev 7:12-13 : 12 If any man gives his offering as a praise-offering, then let him give with the offering, unleavened cakes mixed with oil and thin unleavened cakes covered with oil and cakes of the best meal well mixed with oil. 13 With his peace-offering let him give cakes of leavened bread, as a praise-offering.
  • Hos 9:1 : 1 Have no joy, O Israel, and do not be glad like the nations; for you have been untrue to your God; your desire has been for the loose woman's reward on every grain-floor.
  • Hos 9:10 : 10 I made discovery of Israel as of grapes in the waste land; I saw your fathers as the first-fruits of the fig-tree in her early fruit time; but they came to Baal-peor, and made themselves holy to the thing of shame, and became disgusting like that to which they gave their love.
  • Matt 6:2 : 2 When then you give money to the poor, do not make a noise about it, as the false-hearted men do in the Synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory from men. Truly, I say to you, They have their reward.
  • Matt 15:9 : 9 But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
  • Matt 15:13-14 : 13 But he said in answer, Every plant which my Father in heaven has not put in the earth, will be taken up by the roots. 14 Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.
  • Matt 23:23 : 23 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.
  • Rom 1:28 : 28 And because they had not the mind to keep God in their knowledge, God gave them up to an evil mind, to do those things which are not right;
  • 2 Thess 2:10-12 : 10 And with every deceit of wrongdoing among those whose fate is destruction; because they were quite without that love of the true faith by which they might have salvation. 11 And for this cause, God will give them up to the power of deceit and they will put their faith in what is false: 12 So that they all may be judged, who had no faith in what is true, but took pleasure in evil.
  • Lev 23:17 : 17 Take from your houses two cakes of bread, made of a fifth part of an ephah of the best meal, cooked with leaven, to be waved for first-fruits to the Lord.
  • Deut 12:6-7 : 6 And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks; 7 There you and all your families are to make a feast before the Lord your God, with joy in everything to which you put your hand, because the Lord has given you his blessing.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Lev 7:11-13
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    11 And this is the law for the peace-offerings offered to the Lord.

    12 If any man gives his offering as a praise-offering, then let him give with the offering, unleavened cakes mixed with oil and thin unleavened cakes covered with oil and cakes of the best meal well mixed with oil.

    13 With his peace-offering let him give cakes of leavened bread, as a praise-offering.

  • Lev 22:29
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    29 And when you make an offering of praise to the Lord, make it in a way which is pleasing to him.

  • Num 15:3-4
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    3 And are going to make an offering by fire to the Lord, a burned offering or an offering in connection with an oath, or an offering freely given, or at your regular feasts, an offering for a sweet smell to the Lord, from the herd or the flock:

    4 Then let him who is making his offering, give to the Lord a meal offering of a tenth part of a measure of the best meal mixed with a fourth part of a hin of oil:

  • Num 15:19-21
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    19 Then, when you take for your food the produce of the land, you are to give an offering lifted up before the Lord.

    20 Of the first of your rough meal you are to give a cake for a lifted offering, lifting it up before the Lord as the offering of the grain-floor is lifted up.

    21 From generation to generation you are to give to the Lord a lifted offering from the first of your rough meal.

  • Lev 19:5
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    5 And when you give a peace offering to the Lord, do it in the way which is pleasing to the Lord.

  • Amos 4:4
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    4 Come to Beth-el and do evil; to Gilgal, increasing the number of your sins; come with your offerings every morning and your tenths every three days:

  • Num 28:2
    74%

    2 Give orders to the children of Israel and say to them, Let it be your care to give me my offerings at their regular times, the food of the offerings made by fire to me for a sweet smell.

  • Lev 2:11-12
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    74%

    11 No meal offering which you give to the Lord is to be made with leaven; no leaven or honey is to be burned as an offering made by fire to the Lord.

    12 You may give them as an offering of first-fruits to the Lord, but they are not to go up as a sweet smell on the altar.

  • Deut 16:10
    74%

    10 Then keep the feast of weeks to the Lord your God, with an offering freely given to him from the wealth he has given you:

  • Ps 50:14
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    14 Make an offering of praise to God; keep the agreements which you have made with the Most High;

  • Num 29:39
    73%

    39 These are the offerings which you are to give to the Lord at your regular feasts, in addition to the offerings for an oath, and the free offerings you give, for your burned offerings and your drink offerings and your peace-offerings.

  • Lev 2:4-5
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    4 And when you give a meal offering cooked in the oven, let it be of unleavened cakes of the best meal mixed with oil, or thin unleavened cakes covered with oil.

    5 And if you give a meal offering cooked on a flat plate, let it be of the best meal, unleavened and mixed with oil.

  • Lev 23:17-18
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    17 Take from your houses two cakes of bread, made of a fifth part of an ephah of the best meal, cooked with leaven, to be waved for first-fruits to the Lord.

    18 And with the bread, take seven lambs of the first year, without any marks, and one ox and two male sheep, to be a burned offering to the Lord, with their meal offering and their drink offerings, an offering of a sweet smell made by fire to the Lord.

  • 2 Chr 29:31
    72%

    31 Then Hezekiah made answer and said, Now that you have given yourselves to the Lord, come near and take offerings and praise-offerings into the house of the Lord. So all the people took in offerings and praise-offerings: and those whose hearts were moved, took in burned offerings.

  • Jer 7:21
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    21 These are the words of the Lord of armies, the God of Israel: Put your burned offerings with your offerings of beasts, and take flesh for your food.

  • Deut 27:7
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    7 And you are to make your peace-offerings, feasting there with joy before the Lord your God.

  • Mal 1:8
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    8 And when you give what is blind for an offering, it is no evil! and when you give what is damaged and ill, it is no evil! Give it now to your ruler; will he be pleased with you, or will you have his approval? says the Lord of armies.

  • Exod 34:25
    72%

    25 No leaven is to be offered with the blood of my offering, and the offering of the Passover feast may not be kept till the morning.

  • Ps 107:22
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    22 Let them make offerings of praise, giving news of his works with cries of joy.

  • Lev 2:7-8
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    72%

    7 And if your offering is of meal cooked in fat over the fire, let it be made of the best meal mixed with oil.

    8 And you are to give the meal offering made of these things to the Lord, and let the priest take it to the altar.

  • Exod 23:18
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    18 Do not give the blood of my offering with leavened bread; and do not let the fat of my feast be kept all night till the morning.

  • Ps 116:17
    72%

    17 I will give an offering of praise to you, and make my prayer in the name of the Lord.

  • Deut 12:6
    72%

    6 And there you are to take your burned offerings and other offerings, and the tenth part of your goods, and the offerings to be lifted up to the Lord, and the offerings of your oaths, and those which you give freely from the impulse of your hearts, and the first births among your herds and your flocks;

  • Ps 54:6
    71%

    6 Freely will I make my offerings to you; I will give praise to your name, O Lord, for it is good.

  • Ezek 16:19
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    19 And my bread which I gave you, the best meal and oil and honey which I gave you for your food, you put it before them for a sweet smell, says the Lord.

  • Amos 5:25
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    25 Did you come to me with offerings of beasts and meal offerings in the waste land for forty years, O Israel?

  • Lev 6:21
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    21 But the vessel of earth in which the flesh was cooked is to be broken; or if a brass vessel was used, it is to be rubbed clean and washed out with water.

  • Lev 7:29
    71%

    29 Say to the children of Israel: He who makes a peace-offering to the Lord, is to give an offering to the Lord out of his peace-offering:

  • Num 29:6
    71%

    6 In addition to the burned offering of the new moon, and its meal offering, and the regular burned offering and its meal offering, and their drink offerings, as they are ordered, for a sweet smell, an offering made by fire to the Lord.

  • Lev 22:19
    71%

    19 So 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.

  • Num 6:15
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    15 And a basket of unleavened bread, cakes of the best meal mixed with oil, and thin unleavened cakes covered with oil, with their meal offering and drink offerings.

  • Lev 23:37
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    37 These are the fixed feasts of the Lord, to be kept by you as holy days of worship, for making an offering by fire to the Lord; a burned offering, a meal offering, an offering of beasts, and drink offerings; every one on its special day;

  • Lev 17:8
    71%

    8 And say to them, If any man of Israel, or any other living among them, makes a burned offering or other offering,

  • Mal 3:4
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    4 Then the offering of Judah and Jerusalem will be pleasing to the Lord, as in days gone by, and as in past years.

  • Num 29:36
    71%

    36 And give a burned offering, an offering made by fire of a sweet smell to the Lord: one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

  • Num 29:2
    71%

    2 And give to the Lord a burned offering for a sweet smell; one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark on them:

  • Num 18:27
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    27 And this lifted offering is to be put to your credit as if it was grain from the grain-floor and wine from the vines.

  • Mal 1:13
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    13 And you say, See, what a weariness it is! and you let out your breath at it, says the Lord of armies; and you have given what has been cut about by beasts, and what is damaged in its feet and ill; this is the offering you give: will this be pleasing to me from your hands? says the Lord.

  • 1 Sam 2:29
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    29 Why then are you looking with envy on my offerings of meat and of meal which were ordered by my word, honouring your sons before me, and making yourselves fat with all the best of the offerings of Israel, my people?

  • Num 29:8
    70%

    8 And give to the Lord a burned offering for a sweet smell; one ox, one male sheep, seven he-lambs of the first year: only those without any mark on them may be used:

  • Ps 66:15
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    15 I will give you burned offerings of fat beasts, and the smoke of sheep; I will make offerings of oxen and goats. (Selah.)