Genesis 21:33
21:33 Abraham
planted a tamarisk tree
in Beer Sheba. There he worshiped the
Lord,
the eternal God.
Genesis 22:2
22:2 God
said, “Take your son – your only son, whom you love, Isaac
– and go to the land of Moriah!
Offer him up there as a burnt offering
on one of the mountains which I will indicate to
you.”
Genesis 22:13
22:13 Abraham looked up and saw behind him a ram caught in the bushes by its horns. So he went over and got the ram and offered it up as a burnt offering instead of his son.
Genesis 31:54
31:54 Then Jacob offered a sacrifice
on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat the meal.
They ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain.
Deuteronomy 12:2
12:2 You must by all means destroy
all the places where the nations you are about to dispossess worship their gods – on the high mountains and hills and under every leafy tree.
Deuteronomy 12:1
The Central Sanctuary
12:1 These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to obey as long as you live in the land the Lord, the God of your ancestors, has given you to possess.
Deuteronomy 14:23
14:23 In the presence of the
Lord your God you must eat from the tithe of your grain, your new wine,
your olive oil, and the firstborn of your herds and flocks in the place he chooses to locate his name, so that you may learn to revere the
Lord your God always.
Deuteronomy 14:2
14:2 For you are a people holy
to the
Lord your God. He
has chosen you to be his people, prized
above all others on the face of the earth.
Deuteronomy 16:4
16:4 There must not be a scrap of yeast within your land
for seven days, nor can any of the meat you sacrifice on the evening of the first day remain until the next morning.
Deuteronomy 17:10
17:10 You must then do as they have determined at that place the
Lord chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.
Deuteronomy 17:2
17:2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you – in one of your villages
that the
Lord your God is giving you – who sins before the Lord your God
and breaks his covenant
Deuteronomy 28:4
28:4 Your children
will be blessed, as well as the produce of your soil, the offspring of your livestock, the calves of your herds, and the lambs of your flocks.
Ezekiel 20:28
20:28 I brought them to the land which I swore
to give them, but whenever they saw any high hill or leafy tree, they offered their sacrifices there and presented the offerings that provoke me to anger. They offered their soothing aroma there and poured out their drink offerings.
Ezekiel 22:9
22:9 Slanderous men shed blood within you.
Those who live within you eat pagan sacrifices on the mountains;
they commit obscene acts among you.