Bible Verses About Sacrifices: The covenants of God confirmed by

He answered him, "Bring me a three-year-old cow, a three-year-old female goat, a three-year-old ram, a dove and a young pigeon."

He brought him all these, cut the animals in two and placed the pieces opposite each other; but he didn't cut the birds in half.

Birds of prey swooped down on the carcasses, but Avram drove them away.

As the sun was about to set, a deep sleep fell on Avram; horror and great darkness came over him.

ADONAI said to Avram, "Know this for certain: your descendants will be foreigners in a land that is not theirs. They will be slaves and held in oppression there four hundred years.

But I will also judge that nation, the one that makes them slaves. Afterwards, they will leave with many possessions.

As for you, you will join your ancestors in peace and be buried at a good old age.

Only in the fourth generation will your descendants come back here, because only then will the Emori be ripe for punishment."

After the sun had set and there was thick darkness, a smoking fire pot and a flaming torch appeared, which passed between these animal parts.

He sent the young men of the people of Isra'el to offer burnt offerings and sacrifice peace offerings of oxen to ADONAI.

Moshe took half of the blood and put it in basins; the other half of the blood he splashed against the altar.

Then he took the book of the covenant and read it aloud, so that the people could hear; and they responded, "Everything that ADONAI has spoken, we will do and obey."

Moshe took the blood, sprinkled it on the people and said, "This is the blood of the covenant which ADONAI has made with you in accordance with all these words."

"Gather to me my faithful, those who made a covenant with me by sacrifice."

After Moshe had proclaimed every command of the Torah to all the people, he took the blood of the calves with some water and used scarlet wool and hyssop to sprinkle both the scroll itself and all the people;

and he said, “This is the blood of the covenant which God has ordained for you.”