Exodus 18:12

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Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, brought a burnt offering and other sacrifices to God. Aaron and all the elders of Israel came to eat bread with Moses’ father-in-law in the presence of God.

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  • Gen 31:54 : 54 Then Jacob sacrificed a offering on the mountain and invited his relatives to a meal. They ate and spent the night on the mountain.
  • Deut 12:7 : 7 There, in the presence of the Lord your God, you and your households shall eat and rejoice in all the good things the Lord your God has blessed you with.
  • Exod 24:5 : 5 Then he sent young men of the Israelites, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed bulls as fellowship offerings to the LORD.
  • Exod 24:11 : 11 But God did not raise his hand against the leaders of the Israelites; they saw God, and they ate and drank.
  • Lev 7:11-17 : 11 These are the instructions for the peace offerings that are presented to the Lord. 12 If it is offered as an act of thanksgiving, it shall be accompanied by unleavened bread mixed with oil, unleavened wafers spread with oil, and loaves of fine flour well-kneaded and mixed with oil. 13 With the peace offering of thanksgiving, leavened bread shall also be offered. 14 From the offering, one loaf shall be presented as a contribution to the Lord; it shall belong to the priest who sprinkles the blood of the peace offerings. 15 The meat of the peace offering of thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day it is offered; none of it shall be left until morning. 16 But if the sacrifice he offers is a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day he brings the sacrifice. Whatever is left over may be eaten on the next day. 17 But any meat of the sacrifice left over until the third day must be burned in the fire.
  • Gen 43:25 : 25 They prepared their gift for Joseph's arrival at noon because they had heard that they were going to eat there.
  • Exod 2:20 : 20 Reuel said to his daughters, 'And where is he? Why did you leave the man? Invite him to have something to eat.'
  • Gen 4:4 : 4 But Abel also brought an offering—fat portions from the firstborn of his flock. The LORD looked with favor on Abel and his offering.
  • Gen 8:20 : 20 Then Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
  • Gen 12:7 : 7 The Lord appeared to Abram and said, "To your offspring I will give this land." So Abram built an altar there to the Lord, who had appeared to him.
  • Gen 26:25 : 25 So Isaac built an altar there and called on the name of the LORD. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.
  • Deut 27:7 : 7 Sacrifice fellowship offerings there, eat them, and rejoice in the presence of the LORD your God.
  • 2 Sam 9:7 : 7 "Don’t be afraid," David said to him, "for I will surely show you kindness for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will restore to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will always eat at my table."
  • 1 Chr 29:21-22 : 21 The next day, they offered sacrifices to the LORD and presented burnt offerings to him: a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, along with their drink offerings, and sacrifices in great abundance for all Israel. 22 They ate and drank with great joy in the presence of the LORD that day. Then they made Solomon, son of David, king a second time, anointing him as ruler for the LORD and Zadok as priest.
  • 2 Chr 30:22 : 22 Hezekiah spoke encouragingly to all the Levites, who showed good understanding of the service to the LORD. They ate throughout the appointed seven days, offering fellowship sacrifices and giving thanks to the LORD, the God of their ancestors.
  • Job 1:5 : 5 When the days of feasting were over, Job would send for them and consecrate them. Rising early in the morning, he would offer burnt offerings for each of them, thinking, 'Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.' Job did this regularly.
  • Job 42:8 : 8 So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken the truth about Me as My servant Job has.
  • Job 42:11 : 11 All his brothers, sisters, and former acquaintances came to him and ate with him in his house. They showed him sympathy and comforted him for all the misfortune that the LORD had brought upon him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
  • Dan 10:3 : 3 I did not eat any rich or desirable food, nor did meat or wine touch my lips. I did not anoint myself at all until the three weeks were over.
  • Luke 14:1 : 1 One Sabbath, as Jesus went to eat at the house of a prominent Pharisee, they were carefully watching him.
  • Luke 14:15 : 15 When one of those reclining at the table with him heard this, he said to Jesus, 'Blessed is the one who will eat at the feast in the kingdom of God.'
  • 1 Cor 10:18 : 18 Consider the people of Israel. Are not those who eat the sacrifices participants in the altar?
  • 1 Cor 10:21 : 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons too; you cannot share in the Lord’s table and the table of demons.
  • 1 Cor 10:31 : 31 So whether you eat or drink or whatever you do, do it all for the glory of God.

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  • Exod 18:1-2
    2 verses
    83%

    1Jethro, the priest of Midian and Moses’ father-in-law, heard about everything that God had done for Moses and for His people Israel, and how the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.

    2Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Zipporah, Moses’ wife, after she had been sent away,

  • Exod 18:5-11
    7 verses
    81%

    5Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, came to Moses in the wilderness where he was camped at the mountain of God, bringing Moses’ wife and his two sons with him.

    6Jethro sent word to Moses, saying, 'I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you, along with your wife and her two sons.'

    7So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law, bowed down, and kissed him. They greeted each other and went into the tent.

    8Moses told his father-in-law about everything the LORD had done to Pharaoh and the Egyptians for the sake of Israel, all the hardships they had faced along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.

    9Jethro rejoiced over all the good things the LORD had done for Israel, delivering them from the hand of the Egyptians.

    10Jethro said, 'Blessed be the LORD, who delivered you from the hand of the Egyptians and from the hand of Pharaoh, and who rescued the people from under the hand of Egypt.'

    11Now I know that the LORD is greater than all other gods, for He acted against those who treated Israel arrogantly.

  • Exod 18:13-17
    5 verses
    77%

    13The next day, Moses sat to judge the people, and they stood around him from morning until evening.

    14When Moses’ father-in-law saw everything he was doing for the people, he said, 'What is this you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone as judge, while all the people stand around you from morning till evening?'

    15Moses answered his father-in-law, 'Because the people come to me to inquire of God.'

    16Whenever they have a dispute, they come to me to seek judgment. I decide between one person and another and make known the statutes of God and His laws.

    17Moses' father-in-law said to him, 'What you are doing is not good.'

  • Exod 18:23-24
    2 verses
    75%

    23If you do this and God so commands, you will be able to endure, and all these people will go home satisfied and at peace.

    24Moses listened to his father-in-law’s advice and did everything he said.

  • Exod 3:1
    74%

    1Now Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian. He led the flock to the far side of the wilderness and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.

  • Lev 8:31
    72%

    31Moses said to Aaron and his sons, "Boil the meat at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting and eat it there along with the bread from the basket of ordination, as I commanded, saying, 'Aaron and his sons are to eat it.'

  • Exod 18:27
    72%

    27Then Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and Jethro returned to his own land.

  • Lev 22:17
    71%

    17The LORD spoke to Moses, saying:

  • Exod 4:18
    71%

    18Then Moses went back to Jethro, his father-in-law, and said to him, 'Please let me return to my relatives in Egypt to see if they are still alive.' And Jethro said to Moses, 'Go in peace.'

  • Exod 24:9
    71%

    9Moses, Aaron, Nadab, Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel went up.

  • Exod 10:25
    71%

    25But Moses said, "You must also provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings to present to the LORD our God.

  • Num 11:30
    71%

    30Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.

  • Lev 8:28-29
    2 verses
    71%

    28Then Moses took them back from their hands and burned them on the altar along with the burnt offering. They were an ordination offering, a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the Lord.

    29Moses took the breast and waved it as a presentation offering before the Lord. It was Moses' portion of the ram of ordination, as the Lord had commanded him.

  • Exod 8:25-26
    2 verses
    70%

    25Moses answered, "As soon as I leave you, I will pray to the LORD, and the swarms of flies will depart from Pharaoh, his officials, and his people tomorrow. But let Pharaoh not deal deceitfully again by refusing to let the people go to offer sacrifices to the LORD."

    26Then Moses left Pharaoh and prayed to the LORD.

  • Lev 10:19
    70%

    19But Aaron replied to Moses, 'Behold, today they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD, and such things as these have happened to me. Would it have been pleasing to the LORD if I had eaten the sin offering today?'

  • Lev 6:19
    70%

    19The priest who offers it as a sin offering shall eat it. It must be eaten in a holy place, in the courtyard of the Tent of Meeting.

  • Exod 4:29
    70%

    29Moses and Aaron went and gathered all the elders of the Israelites.

  • Exod 19:7
    70%

    7So Moses came and summoned the elders of the people. He set before them all the words that the LORD had commanded him.

  • Exod 24:1
    70%

    1The LORD said to Moses, "Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab, and Abihu, and seventy of Israel's elders, and worship from a distance."

  • Num 10:29
    70%

    29Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel the Midianite, Moses' father-in-law: "We are setting out for the place about which the LORD said, 'I will give it to you.' Come with us, and we will treat you well, for the LORD has promised good things for Israel."

  • Exod 34:8
    70%

    8Moses quickly bowed to the ground and worshiped.

  • Exod 24:5
    70%

    5Then he sent young men of the Israelites, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed bulls as fellowship offerings to the LORD.

  • Deut 27:7
    69%

    7Sacrifice fellowship offerings there, eat them, and rejoice in the presence of the LORD your God.

  • Exod 24:11
    69%

    11But God did not raise his hand against the leaders of the Israelites; they saw God, and they ate and drank.

  • Exod 29:32
    69%

    32Aaron and his sons shall eat the meat of the ram and the bread that is in the basket at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting.

  • Lev 8:21
    69%

    21He washed the entrails and the legs with water and burned the whole ram on the altar as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

  • Lev 10:12
    69%

    12Moses said to Aaron and to his remaining sons, Eleazar and Ithamar, 'Take the grain offering that remains from the LORD’s offerings by fire and eat it prepared without yeast beside the altar, for it is most holy.

  • Exod 29:23
    69%

    23Along with one loaf of bread, one cake made with oil, and one wafer from the basket of unleavened bread set before the Lord.

  • Lev 9:1
    69%

    1On the eighth day, Moses called for Aaron, his sons, and the elders of Israel.

  • Exod 40:23
    69%

    23He arranged the bread on it before the Lord, as the Lord had commanded Moses.

  • Exod 2:20
    69%

    20Reuel said to his daughters, 'And where is he? Why did you leave the man? Invite him to have something to eat.'