Leviticus 1-3
Offerings Required of the Lord Leviticus 1:1-17 There are three sections to this chapter all dealing with offering burnt offerings to the Lord. It is commanded that these offerings be a sacrifice that is pleasing based upon the ability of the person provide the offering. Three classes of people: Rich heard owners, middle class flock owners, and the poor whom a pigeon would be a fine meal. The offering represents a sacrifice, giving up what is sustenance and the ability to provide for ones self and family, to be burned and consumed by fire. God is asking for us to give up, so we would see the cost of our sins, this giving up or turning is the act of repentance. It's not the action of repentance that has meaning though, it's the motivation of the heart. For a rich man to give a pigeon or a dove would be no offering, but to give the best of his herd is costly. Another observation is that the offerings here are a result of mans ability to work, husbandr...