Women are specifically required to bring offerings for purification from childbirth (Lev 12:6–8), genital disease (Lev 15:29–30), skin disease (Lev 13:29, 38; 14:1–32), and the defilement of death if they have taken on a nazirite vow (Num 6:10–12).
In part two (9:01-24:26), Tim and Jon discuss the five offerings described in the opening movement of Leviticus: the ascension offering, the gift offering, the peace offering, the purification offering, and the guilt offering. The ascension offering is first in the list because it's foundational to the other offerings.
Women did tasks as important as those of men, managed their households, and were equals in daily life, but all public decisions were made by men. Men had specific obligations they were required to perform for their wives including the provision of clothing, food, and sexual relations.
Jephthah led the Israelites in battle against Ammon and, in exchange for defeating the Ammonites, made a vow to sacrifice whatever would come out of the door of his house first. When his daughter was the first to come out of the house, he immediately regretted the vow, which bound him to sacrifice his daughter to God.
First-fruits, tithes, meat offering, drink offering, incense, among others, are also considered sacrifices in the Bible (M. G. Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary and Treasury of Biblical History, Biography, Geography, Doctrine, and Literature).
God wants us to offer ourselves wholeheartedly, living for him with every part of our being. Jesus, you offered yourself for my sake. Help me to offer myself to live for you. May I act with justice, mercy, and humility, as you did.
One day when Isaac was a boy, God came to Abraham and told him to sacrifice Isaac on Mt. Moriah.
man,” a biblical euphemism meaning that she was a virgin. Even though Jephthah's daughter. laments her impending chaste life, her continuing virginity becomes a sign of consecration to the. Lord, just as a burnt offering would have been.
In 2 Samuel 21, we meet Rizpah, a mother grieving over the untimely deaths of her two sons. Through her silence, we are confronted with the uncomfortable realities that accompany inequitable distributions of power.
The widow of Zarephath plays a small but important role in Elijah's story. She feeds Elijah in her home. Soon after, her son dies, and Elijah pleads to God for the power to resurrect him. The Rabbis derive from this that if someone opens his house to you, you are responsible for that person's well-being.
In the third book of the Pentateuch or Torah and particularly in the Code of legal purity (or Provisions for clean and unclean) of the Mosaic Law (Leviticus 11:1-15:33), it is stated that a woman undergoing menstruation is perceived as unclean for seven days and whoever touches her shall be unclean until evening (see ...
Deborah was strong and brave and trusted God completely. God told Deborah to command Barak, one of the generals of the Lord's army, to go into battle against Sisera, the commander of the enemy army. God promised He would deliver Sisera into Barak's hands. But Barak said he would only go if Deborah went with him.
Much of the Old Testament has to do with God working in the lives of men. Sarah, Rachel, Rebekah, Rahab, Ruth, Esther, and Deborah are some of the prominent women in the Old Testament, but this tribute was written in honor of, or in memory of, some beloved wife and mother who will always be unknown.
Taking on the duties of another in kindness is a form of sacrifice. God sent Jesus to be a perfect sacrifice for your sins. Scripture says, “But our High Priest (Jesus) offered himself to God as a single sacrifice for sins, good for all time.
No further sacrifice is needed — because Christ gave His life for us. When we put our faith and trust in Him, the Bible says, “we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all” (Hebrews 10:10).
In the Old Testament, under Levitical law, it took five offerings—whole burnt, sin, trespass, peace, and meal—to properly portray the one offering of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross of Calvary.
Rehoboam, son of Solomon and Naamah, married Maacah daughter of Absalom.
Aclima (also Kalmana, Lusia, Cainan, Luluwa, or Awan) according to some religious traditions was the oldest daughter of Adam and Eve, the sister (in many sources, the twin sister) of Cain. This would make her the first female human who was born naturally.
“But Rachel Was Barren”
The midrash relates that Rachel was twenty-two years old when she was married to Jacob (Seder Olam Rabbah 2), and her barrenness lasted for fourteen years (Seder Eliyahu Rabbah 18, p. 99).
In this parable the virgins represent members of the Church, and the bridegroom represents Christ. The Lord explained to Joseph Smith that the wise virgins are those who “have received the truth, and have taken the Holy Spirit for their guide, and have not been deceived” (D&C 45:57).
Source: The Jewish Museum. Jephthah's daughter is the victim of her father's vow to sacrifice a person in return for victory in battle, although the text does not explicitly state that he killed her.
In the Parable of the Ten Virgins, Jesus tells a story about a party of virgins, perhaps bridesmaids or torchbearers for a procession, chosen to participate in a wedding. Each of the ten virgins is carrying a lamp or torch as they await the coming of the bridegroom, which they expect at some time during the night.
Since Cain's act of fratricide is pre- cipitated by God's unexplained rejection of the sacrifice which resulted in Cain's anger, God becomes complicit in the act.
As a test of Abraham's faith, the Lord commanded him to offer up his son Isaac as a sacrifice. Isaac was the only son of Abraham and Sarah. The command to offer him as a sacrifice was extremely painful for Abraham.
After the destruction of the Second Temple, sacrifices were prohibited because there was no longer a Temple, the only place allowed by halakha for sacrifices. Offering of sacrifices was briefly reinstated during the Jewish–Roman wars of the second century AD and was continued in certain communities thereafter.