Exodus 18:12

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

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  • Gen 31:54 : 54 Then Jacob offered a sacrifice on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat the meal. They ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain.
  • Deut 12:7 : 7 Both you and your families must feast there before the LORD your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he has blessed you.
  • Exod 24:5 : 5 He sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls for peace offerings to the LORD.
  • Exod 24:11 : 11 But he did not lay a hand on the leaders of the Israelites, so they saw God, and they ate and they drank.
  • Lev 7:11-17 : 11 The Peace Offering“‘This is the law of the peace offering sacrifice which he is to present to the LORD. 12 If he presents it on account of thanksgiving, along with the thank offering sacrifice he must present unleavened loaves mixed with olive oil, unleavened wafers smeared with olive oil, and well soaked ring-shaped loaves made of choice wheat flour mixed with olive oil. 13 He must present this grain offering in addition to ring-shaped loaves of leavened bread which regularly accompany the sacrifice of his thanksgiving peace offering. 14 He must present one of each kind of grain offering as a contribution offering to the LORD; it belongs to the priest who splashes the blood of the peace offering. 15 The meat of his thanksgiving peace offering must be eaten on the day of his offering; he must not set any of it aside until morning. 16 “‘If his offering is a votive or freewill sacrifice, it may be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, and also the leftovers from it may be eaten on the next day, 17 but the leftovers from the meat of the sacrifice must be burned up in the fire on the third day.
  • Gen 43:25 : 25 They got their gifts ready for Joseph’s arrival at noon, for they had heard that they were to have a meal there.
  • Exod 2:20 : 20 He said to his daughters,“So where is he? Why in the world did you leave the man? Call him, so that he may eat a meal with us.”
  • Gen 4:4 : 4 But Abel brought some of the firstborn of his flock– even the fattest of them. And the LORD was pleased with Abel and his offering,
  • Gen 8:20 : 20 Noah built an altar to the LORD. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar.
  • Gen 12:7 : 7 The LORD appeared to Abram and said,“To your descendants I will give this land.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
  • Gen 26:25 : 25 Then Isaac built an altar there and worshiped the LORD. He pitched his tent there, and his servants dug a well.
  • Deut 27:7 : 7 Also you must offer fellowship offerings and eat them there, rejoicing before the LORD your God.
  • 2 Sam 9:7 : 7 David said to him,“Don’t be afraid, because I will certainly extend kindness to you for the sake of Jonathan your father. I will give back to you all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul, and you will be a regular guest at my table.”
  • 1 Chr 29:21-22 : 21 David Designates Solomon King The next day they made sacrifices and offered burnt sacrifices to the LORD(1,000 bulls, 1,000 rams, 1,000 lambs), along with their accompanying drink offerings and many other sacrifices for all Israel. 22 They held a feast before the LORD that day and celebrated. Then they designated Solomon, David’s son, as king a second time; before the LORD they anointed him as ruler and Zadok as priest.
  • 2 Chr 30:22 : 22 Hezekiah expressed his appreciation to all the Levites, who demonstrated great skill in serving the LORD. They feasted for the seven days of the festival, and were making peace offerings and giving thanks to the LORD God of their ancestors.
  • Job 1:5 : 5 When the days of their feasting were finished, Job would send for them and sanctify them; he would get up early in the morning and offer burnt offerings according to the number of them all. For Job thought,“Perhaps my children have sinned and cursed God in their hearts.” This was Job’s customary practice.
  • Job 42:8 : 8 So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and offer a burnt offering for yourselves. And my servant Job will intercede for you, and I will respect him, so that I do not deal with you according to your folly, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.”
  • Job 42:11 : 11 So they came to him, all his brothers and sisters and all who had known him before, and they dined with him in his house. They comforted him and consoled him for all the trouble the LORD had brought on him, and each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.
  • Dan 10:3 : 3 I ate no choice food; no meat or wine came to my lips, nor did I anoint myself with oil until the end of those three weeks.
  • Luke 14:1 : 1 Healing Again on the Sabbath Now one Sabbath when Jesus went to dine at the house of a leader of the Pharisees, they were watching him closely.
  • Luke 14:15 : 15 The Parable of the Great Banquet When one of those at the meal with Jesus heard this, he said to him,“Blessed is everyone who will feast in the kingdom of God!”
  • 1 Cor 10:18 : 18 Look at the people of Israel. Are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar?
  • 1 Cor 10:21 : 21 You cannot drink the cup of the Lord and the cup of demons. You cannot take part in the table of the Lord and the table of demons.
  • 1 Cor 10:31 : 31 So whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do everything for the glory of God.

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  • Exod 18:1-2
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    1The Advice of Jethro Jethro, the priest of Midian, Moses’ father-in-law, heard about all that God had done for Moses and for his people Israel, that the LORD had brought Israel out of Egypt.

    2Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took Moses’ wife Zipporah after he had sent her back,

  • Exod 18:5-11
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    5Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, together with Moses’ sons and his wife, came to Moses in the wilderness where he was camping by the mountain of God.

    6He said to Moses,“I, your father-in-law Jethro, am coming to you, along with your wife and her two sons with her.”

    7Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and bowed down and kissed him; they each asked about the other’s welfare, and then they went into the tent.

    8Moses told his father-in-law all that the LORD had done to Pharaoh and to Egypt for Israel’s sake, and all the hardship that had come on them along the way, and how the LORD had delivered them.

    9Jethro rejoiced because of all the good that the LORD had done for Israel, whom he had delivered from the hand of Egypt.

    10Jethro said,“Blessed be the LORD who has delivered you from the hand of Egypt, and from the hand of Pharaoh, who has delivered the people from the Egyptians’ control!

    11Now I know that the LORD is greater than all the gods, for in the thing in which they dealt proudly against them he has destroyed them.”

  • Exod 18:13-17
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    13On the next day Moses sat to judge the people, and the people stood around Moses from morning until evening.

    14When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said,“What is this that you are doing for the people? Why are you sitting by yourself, and all the people stand around you from morning until evening?”

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

    16When they have a dispute, it comes to me and I decide between a man and his neighbor, and I make known the decrees of God and his laws.”

    17Moses’ father-in-law said to him,“What you are doing is not good!

  • Exod 18:23-24
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    23If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will be able to go home satisfied.”

    24Moses listened to his father-in-law and did everything he had said.

  • Exod 3:1
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    1Now Moses was shepherding the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian, and he led the flock to the far side of the desert and came to the mountain of God, to Horeb.

  • Lev 8:31
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    31Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons,“Boil the meat at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, and there you are to eat it and the bread which is in the ordination offering basket, just as I have commanded, saying,‘Aaron and his sons are to eat it,’

  • Exod 18:27
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    27Then Moses sent his father-in-law on his way, and so Jethro went to his own land.

  • Lev 22:17
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    17Regulations for Offering Votive and Freewill Offerings The LORD spoke to Moses:

  • Exod 4:18
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    18The Return of Moses So Moses went back to his father-in-law Jethro and said to him,“Let me go, so that I may return to my relatives in Egypt and see if they are still alive.” Jethro said to Moses,“Go in peace.”

  • Exod 24:9
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    9Moses and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and the seventy elders of Israel went up,

  • Exod 10:25
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    25But Moses said,“Will you also provide us with sacrifices and burnt offerings that we may present them to the LORD our God?

  • Num 11:30
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    30Then Moses returned to the camp along with the elders of Israel.

  • Lev 8:28-29
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    28Moses then took them from their palms and offered them up in smoke on the altar on top of the burnt offering– they were an ordination offering for a soothing aroma; it was a gift to the LORD.

    29Finally, Moses took the breast and waved it as a wave offering before the LORD from the ram of ordination. It was Moses’ share just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Exod 8:25-26
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    25Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron and said,“Go, sacrifice to your God within the land.”

    26But Moses said,“That would not be the right thing to do, for the sacrifices we make to the LORD our God would be an abomination to the Egyptians. If we make sacrifices that are an abomination to the Egyptians right before their eyes, will they not stone us?

  • Lev 10:19
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    19But Aaron spoke to Moses,“See here! Just today they presented their sin offering and their burnt offering before the LORD and such things as these have happened to me! If I had eaten a sin offering today would the LORD have been pleased?”

  • Lev 6:19
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  • Exod 4:29
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    29Then Moses and Aaron went and brought together all the Israelite elders.

  • Exod 19:7
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    7So Moses came and summoned the elders of Israel. He set before them all these words that the LORD had commanded him,

  • Exod 24:1
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    1The Lord Ratifies the Covenant But to Moses the LORD said,“Come up to the LORD, you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of the elders of Israel, and worship from a distance.

  • Num 10:29
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    29The Appeal to Hobab Moses said to Hobab son of Reuel, the Midianite, Moses’ father-in-law,“We are journeying to 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
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    8Moses quickly bowed to the ground and worshiped

  • Exod 24:5
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    5He sent young Israelite men, and they offered burnt offerings and sacrificed young bulls for peace offerings to the LORD.

  • Deut 27:7
    69%

    7Also you must offer fellowship offerings and eat them there, rejoicing before the LORD your God.

  • Exod 24:11
    69%

    11But he did not lay a hand on the leaders of the Israelites, so they saw God, and they ate and they drank.

  • Exod 29:32
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    32Aaron and his sons are to eat the meat of the ram and the bread that was in the basket at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

  • Lev 8:21
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    21but the entrails and the legs he washed with water, and Moses offered the whole ram up in smoke on the altar– it was a burnt offering for a soothing aroma, a gift to the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Lev 10:12
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    12Perpetual Statutes Moses spoke to Aaron Then Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and Ithamar, his remaining sons,“Take the grain offering which remains from the gifts of the LORD and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is most holy.

  • Exod 29:23
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    23and one round flat cake of bread, one perforated cake of oiled bread, and one wafer from the basket of bread made without yeast that is before the LORD.

  • Lev 9:1
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    1Inauguration of Tabernacle Worship On the eighth day Moses summoned Aaron and his sons and the elders of Israel,

  • Exod 40:23
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    23And he set the bread in order on it before the LORD, just as the LORD had commanded Moses.

  • Exod 2:20
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    20He said to his daughters,“So where is he? Why in the world did you leave the man? Call him, so that he may eat a meal with us.”