Bible Cross References
vain
Ezekiel 20:39
The Sovereign LORD says, "And now, all you Israelites, suit yourselves! Go on and serve your idols! But I warn you that after this you will have to obey me and stop dishonoring my holy name by offering gifts to your idols.
Malachi 1:10
The LORD Almighty says, "I wish one of you would close the Temple doors so as to prevent you from lighting useless fires on my altar. I am not pleased with you; I will not accept the offerings you bring me.
Matthew 15:9
It is no use for them to worship me, because they teach human rules as though they were my laws!' "
Luke 11:42
"How terrible for you Pharisees! You give to God one tenth of the seasoning herbs, such as mint and rue and all the other herbs, but you neglect justice and love for God. These you should practice, without neglecting the others.
incense
Isaiah 66:3
"The people do as they please. It's all the same to them whether they kill a bull as a sacrifice or sacrifice a human being; whether they sacrifice a lamb or break a dog's neck; whether they present a grain offering or offer pigs' blood; whether they offer incense or pray to an idol. They take pleasure in disgusting ways of worship.
Proverbs 21:27
The LORD hates it when wicked people offer him sacrifices, especially if they do it from evil motives.
the new
Leviticus 23:1-44
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the following regulations for the religious festivals, when the people of Israel are to gather for worship.
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You have six days in which to do your work, but remember that the seventh day, the Sabbath, is a day of rest. On that day do not work, but gather for worship. The Sabbath belongs to the LORD, no matter where you live.
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Proclaim the following festivals at the appointed times.
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The Passover, celebrated to honor the LORD, begins at sunset on the fourteenth day of the first month.
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On the fifteenth day the Festival of Unleavened Bread begins, and for seven days you must not eat any bread made with yeast.
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On the first of these days you shall gather for worship and do none of your daily work.
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Offer your food offerings to the LORD for seven days. On the seventh day you shall again gather for worship, but you shall do none of your daily work.
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When you come into the land that the LORD is giving you and you harvest your grain, take the first sheaf to the priest.
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He shall present it as a special offering to the LORD, so that you may be accepted. The priest shall present it the day after the Sabbath.
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On the day you present the offering of grain, also sacrifice as a burnt offering a one-year-old male lamb that has no defects.
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With it you shall present four pounds of flour mixed with olive oil as a food offering. The odor of this offering is pleasing to the LORD. You shall also present with it an offering of one quart of wine.
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Do not eat any of the new grain, whether raw, roasted, or baked into bread, until you have brought this offering to God. This regulation is to be observed by all your descendants for all time to come.
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Count seven full weeks from the day after the Sabbath on which you bring your sheaf of grain to present to the LORD.
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On the fiftieth day, the day after the seventh Sabbath, present to the LORD another new offering of grain.
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Each family is to bring two loaves of bread and present them to the LORD as a special gift. Each loaf shall be made of four pounds of flour baked with yeast and shall be presented to the LORD as an offering of the first grain to be harvested.
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And with the bread the community is to present seven one-year-old lambs, one bull, and two rams, none of which may have any defects. They shall be offered as a burnt offering to the LORD, along with a grain offering and a wine offering. The odor of this offering is pleasing to the LORD.
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Also offer one male goat as a sin offering and two one-year-old male lambs as a fellowship offering.
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The priest shall present the bread with the two lambs as a special gift to the LORD for the priests. These offerings are holy.
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On that day do none of your daily work, but gather for worship. Your descendants are to observe this regulation for all time to come, no matter where they live.
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When you harvest your fields, do not cut the grain at the edges of the fields, and do not go back to cut the heads of grain that were left; leave them for poor people and foreigners. The LORD is your God.
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On the first day of the seventh month observe a special day of rest, and come together for worship when the trumpets sound.
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Present a food offering to the LORD and do none of your daily work.
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The tenth day of the seventh month is the day when the annual ritual is to be performed to take away the sins of the people. On that day do not eat anything at all; come together for worship, and present a food offering to the LORD.
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Do no work on that day, because it is the day for performing the ritual to take away sin.
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Any who eat anything on that day will no longer be considered God's people.
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And if any do any work on that day, the LORD himself will put them to death.
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This regulation applies to all your descendants, no matter where they live.
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From sunset on the ninth day of the month to sunset on the tenth observe this day as a special day of rest, during which nothing may be eaten.
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The Festival of Shelters begins on the fifteenth day of the seventh month and continues for seven days.
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On the first of these days come together for worship and do none of your daily work.
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Each day for seven days you shall present a food offering. On the eighth day come together again for worship and present a food offering. It is a day for worship, and you shall do no work.
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(These are the religious festivals on which you honor the LORD by gathering together for worship and presenting food offerings, burnt offerings, grain offerings, sacrifices, and wine offerings, as required day by day.
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These festivals are in addition to the regular Sabbaths, and these offerings are in addition to your regular gifts, your offerings as fulfillment of vows, and your freewill offerings that you give to the LORD.)
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When you have harvested your fields, celebrate this festival for seven days, beginning on the fifteenth day of the seventh month. The first day shall be a special day of rest.
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On that day take some of the best fruit from your trees, take palm branches and limbs from leafy trees, and begin a religious festival to honor the LORD your God.
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Celebrate it for seven days. This regulation is to be kept by your descendants for all time to come.
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All the people of Israel shall live in shelters for seven days,
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so that your descendants may know that the LORD made the people of Israel live in simple shelters when he led them out of Egypt. He is the LORD your God.
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So in this way Moses gave the people of Israel the regulations for observing the religious festivals to honor the LORD.
Numbers 28:1-29
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The LORD commanded Moses
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to instruct the Israelites to present to God at the appointed times the required food offerings that are pleasing to him.
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These are the food offerings that are to be presented to the LORD: for the daily burnt offering, two one-year-old male lambs without any defects.
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Offer the first lamb in the morning, and the second in the evening,
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each with a grain offering of 2 pounds of flour, mixed with 2 pints of the best olive oil.
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This is the daily offering that is completely burned, which was first offered at Mount Sinai as a food offering, an odor pleasing to the LORD.
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As the wine offering with the first lamb, pour out at the altar 2 pints of wine.
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In the evening offer the second lamb in the same way as the morning offering, together with its wine offering. It also is a food offering, an odor pleasing to the LORD.
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On the Sabbath day offer two one-year-old male lambs without any defects, 4 pounds of flour mixed with olive oil as a grain offering, and the wine offering.
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This burnt offering is to be offered every Sabbath in addition to the daily offering with its wine offering.
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Present a burnt offering to the LORD at the beginning of each month: two young bulls, one ram, seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
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As a grain offering, offer flour mixed with olive oil: with each bull, 6 pounds of flour; with the ram, 4 pounds;
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and with each lamb, 2 pounds. These burnt offerings are food offerings, an odor pleasing to the LORD.
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The proper wine offering is 4 pints of wine with each bull, 3 pints with the ram, and 2 pints with each lamb. This is the regulation for the burnt offering for the first day of each month throughout the year.
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And in addition to the daily burnt offering with its wine offering, offer one male goat as a sin offering.
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The Passover Festival in honor of the LORD is to be held on the fourteenth day of the first month.
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On the fifteenth day a religious festival begins which lasts seven days, during which only bread prepared without yeast is to be eaten.
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On the first day of the festival you are to gather for worship, and no work is to be done.
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Offer a burnt offering as a food offering to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
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Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: 6 pounds with each bull, 4 pounds with the ram,
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and 2 pounds with each lamb.
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Also offer one male goat as a sin offering, and in this way perform the ritual of purification for the people.
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Offer these in addition to the regular morning burnt offering.
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In the same way, for seven days offer to the LORD a food offering, an odor pleasing to him. Offer this in addition to the daily burnt offering and wine offering.
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Meet for worship on the seventh day and do no work.
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On the first day of the Harvest Festival, when you present the offering of new grain to the LORD, you are to gather for worship, and no work is to be done.
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Offer a burnt offering as an odor pleasing to the LORD: two young bulls, one ram, and seven one-year-old male lambs, all without any defects.
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Offer the proper grain offering of flour mixed with olive oil: 6 pounds with each bull, 4 pounds with the ram,
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and 2 pounds with each lamb.
Deuteronomy 16:1-22
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"Honor the LORD your God by celebrating Passover in the month of Abib; it was on a night in that month that he rescued you from Egypt.
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Go to the one place of worship and slaughter there one of your sheep or cattle for the Passover meal to honor the LORD your God.
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When you eat this meal, do not eat bread prepared with yeast. For seven days you are to eat bread prepared without yeast, as you did when you had to leave Egypt in such a hurry. Eat this bread---it will be called the bread of suffering---so that as long as you live you will remember the day you came out of Egypt, that place of suffering.
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For seven days no one in your land is to have any yeast in the house; and the meat of the animal killed on the evening of the first day must be eaten that same night.
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"Slaughter the Passover animals at the one place of worship---and nowhere else in the land that the LORD your God will give you. Do it at sunset, the time of day when you left Egypt.
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Boil the meat and eat it at the one place of worship; and the next morning return home.
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For the next six days you are to eat bread prepared without yeast, and on the seventh day assemble to worship the LORD your God, and do no work on that day.
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"Count seven weeks from the time that you begin to harvest the grain,
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and then celebrate the Harvest Festival, to honor the LORD your God, by bringing him a freewill offering in proportion to the blessing he has given you.
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Be joyful in the LORD's presence, together with your children, your servants, and the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns. Do this at the one place of worship.
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Be sure that you obey these commands; do not forget that you were slaves in Egypt.
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"After you have threshed all your grain and pressed all your grapes, celebrate the Festival of Shelters for seven days.
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Enjoy it with your children, your servants, and the Levites, foreigners, orphans, and widows who live in your towns.
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Honor the LORD your God by celebrating this festival for seven days at the one place of worship. Be joyful, because the LORD has blessed your harvest and your work.
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"All the men of your nation are to come to worship the LORD three times a year at the one place of worship: at Passover, Harvest Festival, and the Festival of Shelters. Each man is to bring a gift
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as he is able, in proportion to the blessings that the LORD your God has given him.
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"Appoint judges and other officials in every town that the LORD your God gives you. These men are to judge the people impartially.
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They are not to be unjust or show partiality in their judgments; and they are not to accept bribes, for gifts blind the eyes even of wise and honest men, and cause them to give wrong decisions.
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Always be fair and just, so that you will occupy the land that the LORD your God is giving you and so that you will continue to live there.
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"When you make an altar for the LORD your God, do not put beside it a wooden symbol of the goddess Asherah.
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And do not set up any stone pillar for idol worship; the LORD hates them.
Lamentations 2:6
He smashed to pieces the Temple where we worshiped him; He has put an end to holy days and Sabbaths. King and priest alike have felt the force of his anger.
Joel 1:14
Give orders for a fast; call an assembly! Gather the leaders and all the people of Judah into the Temple of the LORD your God and cry out to him!
Joel 2:15
Blow the trumpet on Mount Zion; give orders for a fast and call an assembly!
it is
1 Corinthians 11:17
In the following instructions, however, I do not praise you, because your meetings for worship actually do more harm than good.
Philippians 1:15
Of course some of them preach Christ because they are jealous and quarrelsome, but others from genuine good will.
iniquity
Psalm 78:40
How often they rebelled against him in the desert; how many times they made him sad!
Ephesians 4:30
And do not make God's Holy Spirit sad; for the Spirit is God's mark of ownership on you, a guarantee that the Day will come when God will set you free.