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Meanings of burnt sacrifice in English

A sacrifice to a god where the offering is completely burned to ashes.

        Usage of burnt sacrifice in English
        1
        Maybe, Caleb, you've beared tell about what the Bible says of burnt sacrifice.
        A Shepherd's Life: Impressions of the South Wiltshire Downs
        2
        I drew forth my manuscript story of the sparrows, and offered it for burnt sacrifice.
        Waifs and Strays / Part 1
        3
        Returning he found him standing by his burnt sacrifice, and the princes of the Moabites with him.
        The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
        4
        He purchased the threshing-floor of Araunah, also oxen and wood and offered a burnt sacrifice to God.
        Mother Stories from the Old Testament / A Book of the Best Stori...
        5
        With the same ceremonies you shall offer a burnt sacrifice for a most sweet odour to the Lord.
        The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
        6
        And therefore it shall not be leavened, because part thereof is offered for the burnt sacrifice of the Lord.
        The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
        7
        And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the burnt sacrifice of the Lord for a trespass.
        The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
        8
        This earthly power shall be utterly broken, and be of no more account than the smoke of a burnt sacrifice.
        The Great Doctrines of the Bible
        9
        Did not our father Abraham lay Isaac upon the altar and offer him as a burnt sacrifice before the Lord?
        The Witch of Prague: A Fantastic Tale
        10
        Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe.
        Remarks
        11
        My altars there have never been without the savour of fat or of burnt sacrifice and all my dues were paid.'
        The Humour of Homer and Other Essays
        12
        If any man eat the fat that should be offered for the burnt sacrifice of the Lord, he shall perish out of his people.
        The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Old Testament — Part 1
        13
        You, sir, take no heed of this, and yet when Ulysses was before Troy did he not propitiate you with many a burnt sacrifice?
        The Odyssey / Rendered into English prose for the use of those w...
        14
        If I sail with you, how can you offer burnt sacrifices?
        Philoktetes
        15
        The Reubenites had burnt sacrifices to idols.
        The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4
        16
        The young man who knew it hovered near, relying upon burnt sacrifices to the great joss, Luck.
        The Voice of the City: Further Stories of the Four Million
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