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  • According to the plain sense, God commands Abraham to offer his son as a burnt-offering?

    Peter Ochs, Ph.D.: Renewing Abraham's Children in the New Year and Liberating Them from the Old Ph.D. Peter Ochs 2010

  • If she has the financial means she brings an animal as a sacrifice; if she is poor she offers a pair of young pigeons or turtledoves, the first serving as a burnt-offering (olah) and the second as a sin-offering (hatat).

    Kinnim (Tractate). 2009

  • But he crosses the threshold of the temple to pray to Phoebus before his oracle, and was busy with his burnt-offering; when a body of men armed with swords set themselves in ambush against him in the cover of the bay-trees, and

    Andromache 2007

  • But he crosses the threshold of the temple to pray to Phoebus before his oracle, and was busy with his burnt-offering; when a body of men armed with swords set themselves in ambush against him in the cover of the bay-trees, and

    Andromache 2007

  • [24] When the procession reached the sacred precincts, sacrifice was offered to Zeus, a whole burnt-offering of bulls, and a whole burnt-offering of horses to the Sun; and then they sacrificed to the Earth, slaying the victims as the Persian priests prescribed, and then to the heroes who hold the Syrian land.

    Cyropaedia 2007

  • He and the prophets of Baal each prepare wood, meat and meal for a burnt-offering, then pray for divine intervention to light the fire.

    False Gods 2005

  • ABRAHAM: I might have reproached Thee, and said, O Lord of the world, yesterday Thou didst tell me, In Isaac shall they seed be called, and now Thou sayest, Take they son, thine own son, even Isaac, and offer him for a burnt-offering.

    Akedah 2005

  • ABRAHAM: I might have reproached Thee, and said, O Lord of the world, yesterday Thou didst tell me, In Isaac shall they seed be called, and now Thou sayest, Take they son, thine own son, even Isaac, and offer him for a burnt-offering.

    Archive 2005-08-01 2005

  • Should I be taken and offered up as a burnt-offering to those hideous guardians of the pass?

    Erewhon 2003

  • The altar of burnt-offering also was five cubits in breadth.

    ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus 1819-1893 2001

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