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  • In the story, Abraham has to prove he is willing to slay his own son as a "holocaustum" to the lord.

    Dissident Voice 2009

  • Tunc levavit Abraham oculos suos, et vidit, et ecce aries post eum detentus in perplexitate spinarum cornibus suis: et perrexit Abraham, et accepitarietem, obtulitque eum in holocaustum pro filio suo.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • Et dixit, Ecce ignis et ligna, et ubi pecus in holocaustum?

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • Et dixit, Tolle nunc filium tuum, unicum tuum, quem dilexisti Ishac, et vade ad terram Moriah, et offer eum ibi in holocaustum super unum e montibus, quem dixero tibi.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • Et dixit Abraham, Deus prospiciet sibi pecudem in holocaustum, fili mi.

    Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996

  • For the burnt-offering (holocaustum, 'õlah), with which no meal was associated, belonged to the most ancient sacrifices

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • Cecidit autem ignis Domini, et voravit holocaustum

    The Altar Fire Arthur Christopher Benson 1893

  • Code the most important sacrifice is the burnt-offering; that is to say, in point of fact, the _tamid_, the _holocaustum juge_, consisting of two yearling lambs which are daily consumed upon the "altar of burnt-offering," one in the morning, another in the evening.

    Prolegomena Julius Wellhausen 1881

  • The holocaust - from Latin holocaustum = "burnt offering", was considered by most powerful

    Dissident Voice 2009

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