Numbers 18:17

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But you must not redeem the firstborn of a cow or a sheep or a goat; they are holy. You must splash their blood on the altar and burn their fat for an offering made by fire for a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 29:16 : 16 and you are to kill the ram and take its blood and splash it all around on the altar.
  • Lev 3:2-5 : 2 He must lay his hand on the head of his offering and slaughter it at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, and the sons of Aaron, the priests, must splash the blood against the altar’s sides. 3 Then the one presenting the offering must present a gift to the LORD from the peace offering sacrifice: He must remove the fat that covers the entrails and all the fat that surrounds the entrails, 4 the two kidneys with the fat on their sinews, and the protruding lobe on the liver(which he is to remove along with the kidneys). 5 Then the sons of Aaron must offer it up in smoke on the altar atop the burnt offering that is on the wood in the fire as a gift of a soothing aroma to the LORD.
  • Deut 15:19-22 : 19 Giving God the Best You must set apart for the LORD your God every firstborn male born to your herds and flocks. You must not work the firstborn of your bulls or shear the firstborn of your flocks. 20 You and your household must eat them annually before the LORD your God in the place he chooses. 21 If they have any kind of blemish– lameness, blindness, or anything else– you may not offer them as a sacrifice to the LORD your God. 22 You may eat it in your villages, whether you are ritually impure or clean, just as you would eat a gazelle or an ibex.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Num 18:15-16
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    15The firstborn of every womb which they present to the LORD, whether human or animal, will be yours. Nevertheless, the firstborn sons you must redeem, and the firstborn males of unclean animals you must redeem.

    16And those that must be redeemed you are to redeem when they are a month old, according to your estimation, for five shekels of silver according to the sanctuary shekel(which is twenty gerahs).

  • Lev 27:26
    82%

    26Redemption of the Firstborn“‘Surely no man may consecrate a firstborn that already belongs to the LORD as a firstborn among the animals; whether it is an ox or a sheep, it belongs to the LORD.

  • Lev 23:18
    80%

    18Along with the loaves of bread, you must also present seven flawless yearling lambs, one young bull, and two rams. They are to be a burnt offering to the LORD along with their grain offering and drink offerings, a gift of a soothing aroma to the LORD.

  • Lev 1:9-10
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    80%

    9Finally, the one presenting the offering must wash its entrails and its legs in water and the priest must offer all of it up in smoke on the altar– it is a burnt offering, a gift of a soothing aroma to the LORD.

    10Animal from the Flock“‘If his offering is from the flock for a burnt offering– from the sheep or the goats– he must present a flawless male,

  • Num 28:19
    80%

    19“‘But you must offer to the LORD an offering made by fire, a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven lambs one year old; they must all be unblemished.

  • Deut 15:19
    80%

    19Giving God the Best You must set apart for the LORD your God every firstborn male born to your herds and flocks. You must not work the firstborn of your bulls or shear the firstborn of your flocks.

  • Num 29:8
    80%

    8But you must offer a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs one year old, all of them without blemish.

  • Num 29:36-37
    2 verses
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    36But you must offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, as a pleasing aroma to the LORD, one bull, one ram, seven lambs one year old, all of them without blemish,

    37and with their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bull, for the ram, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,

  • Lev 2:12
    80%

    12You can present them to the LORD as an offering of first fruit, but they must not go up to the altar for a soothing aroma.

  • Num 28:27
    79%

    27But you must offer as the burnt offering, as a sweet aroma to the LORD, two young bulls, one ram, seven lambs one year old,

  • Exod 29:18
    79%

    18and burn the whole ram on the altar. It is a burnt offering to the LORD, a soothing aroma; it is an offering made by fire to the LORD.

  • Lev 22:27
    79%

    27“When an ox, lamb, or goat is born, it must be under the care of its mother seven days, but from the eighth day onward it will be acceptable as an offering gift to the LORD.

  • Num 15:3
    79%

    3and you make an offering by fire to the LORD from the herd or from the flock(whether a burnt offering or a sacrifice for discharging a vow or as a freewill offering or in your solemn feasts) to create a pleasing aroma to the LORD,

  • Num 18:18
    79%

    18And their meat will be yours, just as the breast and the right hip of the raised offering is yours.

  • Num 29:2
    79%

    2You must offer a burnt offering as a sweet aroma to the LORD: one young bull, one ram, and seven lambs one year old without blemish.

  • Lev 22:19
    78%

    19if it is to be acceptable for your benefit it must be a flawless male from the cattle, sheep, or goats.

  • Exod 34:26
    78%

    26“The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the LORD your God.You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.”

  • Exod 34:20
    78%

    20Now the firstling of a donkey you may redeem with a lamb, but if you do not redeem it, then break its neck. You must redeem all the firstborn of your sons.“No one will appear before me empty-handed.

  • Num 29:13
    78%

    13You must offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire as a pleasing aroma to the LORD: thirteen young bulls, two rams, and fourteen lambs each one year old, all of them without blemish.

  • Lev 1:13
    77%

    13Then the one presenting the offering must wash the entrails and the legs in water, and the priest must present all of it and offer it up in smoke on the altar– it is a burnt offering, a gift of a soothing aroma to the LORD.

  • Exod 23:19
    77%

    19The first of the firstfruits of your soil you must bring to the house of the LORD your God.“You must not cook a young goat in its mother’s milk.

  • Num 28:11
    77%

    11Monthly Offerings“‘On the first day of each month you must offer as a burnt offering to the LORD two young bulls, one ram, and seven unblemished lambs a year old,

  • Lev 17:6
    77%

    6The priest is to splash the blood on the altar of the LORD at the entrance of the Meeting Tent, and offer the fat up in smoke for a soothing aroma to the LORD.

  • Num 7:15
    77%

    15one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

  • Exod 13:12
    77%

    12then you must give over to the LORD the first offspring of every womb. Every firstling of a beast that you have– the males will be the LORD’s.

  • Lev 3:16
    77%

    16Then the priest must offer them up in smoke on the altar as a food gift for a soothing aroma– all the fat belongs to the LORD.

  • Deut 17:1
    77%

    1You must not sacrifice to him a bull or sheep that has a blemish or any other defect, because that is considered offensive to the LORD your God.

  • Num 7:21
    77%

    21one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

  • Lev 9:3
    77%

    3Then tell the Israelites:‘Take a male goat for a sin offering and a calf and lamb, both a year old and flawless, for a burnt offering,

  • Num 7:27
    77%

    27one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

  • Num 7:81
    76%

    81one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

  • Num 7:39
    76%

    39one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

  • Num 7:51
    76%

    51one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

  • Num 29:17-18
    2 verses
    76%

    17“‘On the second day you must offer twelve young bulls, two rams, fourteen lambs one year old, all without blemish,

    18and their grain offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number as prescribed,

  • Exod 22:29-30
    2 verses
    76%

    29“Do not hold back offerings from your granaries or your vats. You must give me the firstborn of your sons.

    30You must also do this for your oxen and for your sheep; seven days they may remain with their mothers, but give them to me on the eighth day.

  • Num 7:57
    76%

    57one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

  • Exod 29:25
    76%

    25Then you are to take them from their hands and burn them on the altar for a burnt offering, for a soothing aroma before the LORD. It is an offering made by fire to the LORD.

  • Lev 1:3
    76%

    3Burnt Offering Regulations: Animal from the Herd“‘If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd he must present it as a flawless male; he must present it at the entrance of the Meeting Tent for its acceptance before the LORD.

  • Num 7:33
    76%

    33one young bull, one ram, and one male lamb in its first year, for a burnt offering;

  • Deut 12:27
    76%

    27You must offer your burnt offerings, both meat and blood, on the altar of the LORD your God; the blood of your other sacrifices you must pour out on his altar while you eat the meat.

  • Lev 3:12
    76%

    12“‘If his offering is a goat he must present it before the LORD,

  • Lev 27:9
    76%

    9Redemption of Vowed Animals“‘If what is vowed is a kind of animal from which an offering may be presented to the LORD, anything which he gives to the LORD from this kind of animal will be holy.

  • Num 19:5
    76%

    5Then the heifer must be burned in his sight– its skin, its flesh, its blood, and its offal is to be burned.

  • Exod 29:13
    76%

    13You are to take all the fat that covers the entrails, and the lobe that is above the liver, and the two kidneys and the fat that is on them, and burn them on the altar.

  • Num 6:14
    76%

    14and he must present his offering to the LORD: one male lamb in its first year without blemish for a burnt offering, one ewe lamb in its first year without blemish for a purification offering, one ram without blemish for a peace offering,