Bible Verses About The Altar of Burnt Offering

And before it the altar of holocaust.

The altar of holocaust and all its vessels:

And Moses and Aaron, and his sons, washed their hands and feet,

And they shall lay the parts that are cut out in order thereupon: to wit, the head, and all things that cleave to the liver;

The entrails and feet being washed with water. And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for a holocaust, and a sweet savour to the Lord.

And he shall put some of the same blood upon the horns of the altar of the sweet incense most acceptable to the Lord, which is in the tabernacle of the testimony. And he shall pour all the rest of the blood at the foot of the altar of holocaust in the entry of the tabernacle.

And he shall put of the same blood on the horns of the altar that is before the Lord, in the tabernacle of the testimony. And the rest of the blood he shall pour at the foot of the altar of holocaust, which is at the door of the tabernacle of the testimony.

The priest shall dip his finger in the blood of the victim for sin, touching therewith the horns of the altar of holocaust, and pouring out the rest at the foot thereof.

This is the perpetual fire which shall never go out on the altar.

He took also the oil of unction, with which he anointed the tabernacle, with all the furniture thereof.

And when he had sanctified and sprinkled the altar seven times, he anointed it, and all the vessels thereof: and the laver with the foot thereof, he sanctified with the oil.

He immolated it: and took the blood, and dipping his finger in it, he touched the horns of the altar round about. Which being expiated, and sanctified, he poured the rest of the blood at the bottom thereof.

And, behold, a fire, coming forth from the Lord, devoured the holocaust, and the fat that was upon the altar: which when the multitude saw, they praised the Lord, falling on their faces.

If it be blind, or broken, or have a scar or blisters, or a scab, or a dry scurf: you shall not offer them to the Lord, nor burn any thing of them upon the Lord's altar.

And it came to pass in the day that Moses had finished the tabernacle, and set it up, and had anointed and sanctified it with all its vessels, the altar likewise and all the vessels thereof,

The princes of Israel and the heads of the families, in every tribe, who were the rulers of them who had been numbered, offered

Their gifts before the Lord, six wagons covered, and twelve oxen. Two princes offered one wagon, and each one an ox, and they offered them before the tabernacle.

And the Lord said to Moses:

Receive them from them to serve in the ministry of the tabernacle, and thou shalt deliver them to the Levites according to the order of their ministry.

Moses therefore receiving the wagons and the oxen, delivered them to the Levites.

Two wagons and four oxen he gave to the sons of Gerson, according to their necessity.

The other four wagons, and eight oxen he gave to the sons of Merari, according to their offices and service, under the hand of Ithamar the son of Aaron the priest.

But to the sons of Caath he gave no wagons or oxen: because they serve in the sanctuary and carry their burdens upon their own shoulders.

And the princes offered for the dedication of the altar on the day when it was anointed, their oblation before the altar.

And the Lord said to Moses: Let each of the princes one day after another offer their gifts for the dedication of the altar.