Jeremiah 7:21

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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.

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  • Hos 8:13 : 13 He gives the offerings of his lovers, and takes the flesh for food; but the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep in mind their evil-doing and give them the punishment of their sins; they will go back to Egypt.
  • Jer 6:20 : 20 To what purpose does sweet perfume come to me from Sheba, and spices from a far country? your burned offerings give me no pleasure, your offerings of beasts are not pleasing to me.
  • Isa 1:11-15 : 11 What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats. 12 At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet? 13 Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings. 14 Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them. 15 And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.
  • Amos 5:21-23 : 21 Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings. 22 Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts. 23 Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut to the melody of your instruments.

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  • Jer 7:22
    81%

    22 For I said nothing to your fathers, and gave them no orders, on the day when I took them out of Egypt, about burned offerings or offerings of beasts:

  • Deut 12:27
    80%

    27 Offering the flesh and the blood of your burned offerings on the altar of the Lord your God; and the blood of your offerings is to be drained out on the altar of the Lord your God, and the flesh will be your food.

  • Isa 1:11
    78%

    11 What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

  • Lev 7:24-25
    2 verses
    77%

    24 And the fat of that which comes to a natural death, and the fat of that which is attacked by beasts, may be used for other purposes, but not in any way for food.

    25 For anyone who takes as food the fat of any beast of which men make an offering by fire to the Lord, will be cut off from his people.

  • Deut 27:7
    76%

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

  • 1 Sam 2:15
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    15 And more than this, before the fat was burned, the priest's servant would come and say to the man who was making the offering, Give me some of the flesh to be cooked for the priest; he has no taste for meat cooked in water, but would have you give it uncooked.

  • Num 15:3
    76%

    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:

  • Lev 3:11
    76%

    11 That it may be burned by the priest on the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire to the Lord.

  • Lev 17:8
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    8 And say to them, If any man of Israel, or any other living among them, makes a burned offering or other offering,

  • Ezek 39:19
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    19 You will go on feasting on the fat till you are full, and drinking the blood till you are overcome with it, of my offering which I have put to death for you.

  • Lev 7:22
    75%

    22 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Lev 7:37
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    37 These are the laws for the burned offering, the meal offering, and the offering for wrongdoing; and for the making of priests, and for the giving of peace-offerings;

  • Amos 5:22
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    22 Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.

  • Lev 7:17
    75%

    17 But if any of the flesh of the offering is still unused on the third day, it is to be burned with fire.

  • Lev 26:29
    75%

    29 Then you will take the flesh of your sons and the flesh of your daughters for food;

  • Num 7:21
    75%

    21 One young ox, one male sheep, one he-lamb of the first year, for a burned offering;

  • Zech 11:4
    74%

    4 This is what the Lord my God has said: Take care of the flock of death;

  • Mal 1:13
    74%

    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.

  • Lev 7:19-20
    2 verses
    74%

    19 And flesh touched by any unclean thing may not be taken for food: it is to be burned with fire; and as for the flesh of the peace-offerings, everyone who is clean may take it as food:

    20 But he who is unclean when he takes as food the flesh of the peace-offerings, which are the Lord's, will be cut off from his people.

  • Lev 3:16
    74%

    16 That it may be burned by the priest on the altar; it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet smell: all the fat is the Lord's.

  • Ezek 24:10
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    10 Put on much wood, heating up the fire, boiling the flesh well, and making the soup thick, and let the bones be burned.

  • Ezra 7:17
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    17 So with this money get with care oxen, sheep, and lambs, with their meal offerings and their drink offerings, to be offered on the altar of the house of your God, which is in Jerusalem.

  • 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.

  • Num 29:21
    74%

    21 And their meal offering and drink offerings for the oxen, for the male sheep, and for the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered:

  • Lev 8:32
    74%

    32 And that which is over of the flesh and of the bread is to be burned with fire.

  • Lev 7:11
    74%

    11 And this is the law for the peace-offerings offered to the Lord.

  • Num 29:37
    74%

    37 With the meal offering and the drink offerings for the ox, the male sheep, and the lambs, in relation to their number, as it is ordered:

  • Exod 29:13
    74%

    13 And take all the fat covering the inside of the ox, and the fat joining the liver and the two kidneys with the fat round them, and let them be burned on the altar;

  • Mal 1:7-8
    2 verses
    74%

    7 You put unclean bread on my altar. And you say, How have we made it unclean? By your saying, The table of the Lord is of no value.

    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.

  • Num 28:19
    73%

    19 And you are to give an offering made by fire, a burned offering to the Lord; two oxen, one male sheep, and seven he-lambs of the first year, without any mark:

  • Num 28:2
    73%

    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.

  • 1 Sam 2:29
    73%

    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?

  • Lev 7:28-29
    2 verses
    73%

    28 And the Lord said to Moses,

    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:

  • Ezek 24:5
    73%

    5 Take the best of the flock, put much wood under it: see that its bits are boiling well; let the bones be cooked inside it.

  • Lev 22:17
    73%

    17 And the Lord said to Moses,

  • Hos 8:13
    73%

    13 He gives the offerings of his lovers, and takes the flesh for food; but the Lord has no pleasure in them; now he will keep in mind their evil-doing and give them the punishment of their sins; they will go back to Egypt.

  • Jer 7:20
    73%

    20 So this is what the Lord God has said: See, my wrath and my passion will be let loose on this place, on man and beast, and on the trees of the field, and on the produce of the earth; it will be burning and will not be put out.

  • Lev 23:37
    73%

    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;

  • Num 29:6
    73%

    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 7:5
    73%

    5 They are to be burned by the priest on the altar for an offering made by fire to the Lord: it is an offering for wrongdoing.

  • Lev 2:8
    73%

    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.

  • Lev 7:8
    73%

    8 And the priest offering any man's burned offering for him, may have the skin of the burned offering which is offered by him.

  • Num 15:8
    73%

    8 And when you make ready a young ox for a burned or other offering, or for the effecting of an oath, or for peace-offerings to the Lord:

  • Lev 1:12
    73%

    12 And the offering is to be cut into its parts, with its head and its fat; and the priest is to put them in order on the wood which is on the fire on the altar:

  • Lev 10:13
    73%

    13 It is to be for your food in a holy place, because it is your right and your sons' right, from the offerings of the Lord made by fire: for so am I ordered.

  • Deut 12:21
    73%

    21 If the place marked out by the Lord your God as the resting-place for his name is far away from you, then take from your herds and from your flocks which the Lord has given you, as I have said, and have a meal of it in the towns where you may be living.