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  • You take no pleasure in sacrifice; were I to give a burnt offering, you would not delight in it. (Psalms 51, 18)

  • the table for the bread of offering, the libation vessels, the cups, the golden censers, the curtains and the crowns, and stripped away all the decorations, the golden moldings that used to cover the Temple entrance. (1 Maccabees 1, 22)

  • They celebrated the consecration of the altar for eight days, joyfully offering holocausts and celebrating sacrifices of thanksgiving and praise. (1 Maccabees 4, 56)

  • Nor will you be able to withstand the cavalry and so great an army on the plain, where there are no stones or rocks offering a refuge." (1 Maccabees 10, 73)

  • And what Moses had said was fulfilled: Inasmuch as the sin-offering was not eaten, the fire consumed it. (2 Maccabees 2, 11)

  • While the High Priest was offering the sacrifice of atonement, the same young men, clothed in the same way, again appeared to Heliodorus, and standing before him, said, "Thank Onias the High Priest, for through him the Lord grants you the grace of life. (2 Maccabees 3, 33)

  • Menelaus presented himself to the king whom he impressed by his personal bearing as a man of authority, and so obtained the office of high priest for himself, offering three hundred talents more than Jason. (2 Maccabees 4, 24)

  • For this reason, Menelaus met Andronicus in private and urged him to kill Onias. Andronicus went to Onias and deceitfully gained his confidence, offering Onias his right hand in oath. He was able to persuade Onias, in spite of the latter's suspicion, to come out of his place of refuge. Then Andronicus killed him at once without any regard for justice. (2 Maccabees 4, 34)

  • When the latter became aware that Judas had escaped without being disloyal, he appeared in the holy Temple while the priests were offering the ritual sacrifices, and demanded that they hand Judas over to him. (2 Maccabees 14, 31)

  • Watch your step when you go to God's house; it's a better offering to listen, than to present sacrifices as do the fools; for they do not know the evil they do. (Ecclesiastes 4, 17)

  • Fear the Lord and honor the priest. Give him the share which has been commanded: the first harvest, the sin-offering, the shoulders of the victims, the holy offerings and the first fruits of sacred things. (Ecclesiasticus 7, 31)

  • An offering to God from stolen goods is a stained offering, the sacrifices of the wicked do not please God. (Ecclesiasticus 34, 18)


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