A sacrifice to a god where the offering is completely burned to ashes.
1 Maybe, Caleb, you've beared tell about what the Bible says of burnt sacrifice .
2 I drew forth my manuscript story of the sparrows, and offered it for burnt sacrifice .
3 Returning he found him standing by his burnt sacrifice , and the princes of the Moabites with him.
4 He purchased the threshing-floor of Araunah, also oxen and wood and offered a burnt sacrifice to God.
5 With the same ceremonies you shall offer a burnt sacrifice for a most sweet odour to the Lord.
6 And therefore it shall not be leavened, because part thereof is offered for the burnt sacrifice of the Lord.
7 And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the burnt sacrifice of the Lord for a trespass.
8 This earthly power shall be utterly broken, and be of no more account than the smoke of a burnt sacrifice .
9 Did not our father Abraham lay Isaac upon the altar and offer him as a burnt sacrifice before the Lord?
10 Spring comes with joyous laugh, and song, and sunshine, and the burnt sacrifice of the over-ripe boot and the hoary overshoe.
11 My altars there have never been without the savour of fat or of burnt sacrifice and all my dues were paid.'
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.
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 ?
14 If I sail with you, how can you offer burnt sacrifices ?
15 The Reubenites had burnt sacrifices to idols.
16 The young man who knew it hovered near, relying upon burnt sacrifices to the great joss, Luck.
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