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sacrifices consisted of meal, for the most part of fine flour (Lev 2:1), of cakes of different kinds (Lev 2:4-7), and of toasted ears or grains of corn (Lev 2:14), to which there were generally added oil and incense, but never leaven or honey (Lev 2:11); and also of wine for a drink-offering (Num 15:5.).
The bleeding sacrifices were divided into four classes: viz., (1) burnt-offerings (Lev 1), ), for which a male animal or pigeon only was admissible; (2) peace-offerings (slain-offerings of peace, Lev 3), ), which were divisible again into praise-offerings, vow-offerings, and freewill-offerings (Lev 7:12, Lev 7:16), and consisted of both male and female animals, but never of pigeons; (3) sin-offerings (Lev 4:1-5:13); and (4) trespass-offerings (Lev 5:14-19). Both male and female animals might be taken for the sin-offerings; and doves also could be used, sometimes independently, sometimes as substitutes for larger animals; and in cases of extreme poverty meal alone might be used (Lev 5:11). But for the trespass-offerings either a ram (Lev 5:15, Lev 5:18; Lev 19:21) or a lamb had to be sacrificed (Lev 14:12; Num 6:12). All the sacrificial animals were to be brought “before Jehovah,” i.e., before the altar of burnt-offering, in the court of the tabernacle (Lev 1:3, Lev 1:5, Lev 1:11; Lev 3:1, Lev 3:7, Lev 3:12; Lev 4:4). There the offerer was to rest his hand upon the head of the animal (Lev 1:4), and then to slaughter it, flay it, cut it in pieces, and prepare it for a sacrificial offering; after which the priest would attend to the sprinkling of the blood and the burning upon the altar fire (Lev 1:5-9; Lev 6:2., Lev 21:6). In the case of the burnt-offerings, peace-offerings, and trespass-offerings, the blood was swung all round against the walls of the altar (Lev 1:5, Lev 1:11; Lev 3:2, Lev 3:8, Lev 3:13; Lev 7:2); in that of the sin-offerings a portion was placed upon the horns of the altar of burnt-offering, and in certain circumstances it was smeared upon the horns of the altar of incense, or sprinkled upon the ark of the covenant in the most holy place, and the remainder poured out at the foot of the altar of burnt-offering (Lev 4:5-7, Lev 4:16-18, Lev 4:25, Lev 4:30). In the case of the burnt-offering, the flesh was all burned upon the altar, together with the head and entrails, the latter having been previously cleansed (Lev 1:8, Lev 1:13); in that of the peace-offerings, sin-offerings, and trespass-offerings, the fat portions only were burned upon the altar, viz., the larger and smaller caul, the fat upon the entrails and inner muscles of the loins, and the kidneys with their fat (Lev 3:9-11,