BURNT offering
BURNT offering Burnt offering The different animals for the burnt offering were bullocks, sheep, goats, turtle doves, and young pigeons. The person making this voluntary offering, laid his hand on the head of the offering so that it was accepted on his behalf as an atonement, and then slew it. The priests took the blood and sprinkled it around the great altar. In Solomon’s Temple there was a red line half way up the sides of the great altar, and some of the blood was sprinkled above and some below this line. After the blood was sprinkled, the person who brought the offering skinned the animal and cut it in pieces. This was apparently changed later so that it was the priest that performed this task, sometimes helped by others when there were too many offerings, as shown in 2 Chronicles 29:34 — “The priests, however, were too few to skin all the burnt offerings; so their kinsmen the Levites helped them until the task was finished and until other priests ...