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burnt offering

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burnt offering (plural burnt offerings)

(biblical) A slaughtered animal offered and burnt on an altar as an atonement for sin.

(religion, by extension) Any similar sacrifice to a deity or deities, or to a deceased person.
(humorous) Overcooked food.

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It is namely distinctly stated in Scripture and handed down by tradition that the first commandments communicated to us did not include any law at all about burnt offering and sacrifice. Maimonides

Along the way, Isaac asked his father where the animal for the burnt offering was, to which Abraham replied "God will provide himself a lamb for a burnt offering". Source: Internet

Anderson called Judaism the “synagogue of Satan,” denied the Holocaust, and said “the real burnt offering is going to be when all of these Jews that don’t believe in Jesus Christ go to hell for eternity. Source: Internet

The king of Moab gives his firstborn son and heir as a whole burnt offering (olah, as used of the Temple sacrifice). Source: Internet

The three (Elihu is not mentioned) are told to make a burnt offering with Job as their intercessor, "for only to him will I show favour". Source: Internet

Thus declaring that the burnt offering of both animals and humans (which may have been practiced in Judah under Kings Ahaz and Manasseh ) is not necessary for God. Source: Internet

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