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Leviticus 1

    ²Say to the Israelites, When any man of you brings an offering to the Lord, you shall bring your offering of [domestic] animals from the herd or from the flock.

    ³If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish; he shall offer it at the door of the Tent of Meeting, that he may be accepted before the Lord.^(A)

    ⁴And he shall lay [both] his hands upon the head of the burnt offering [transferring symbolically his guilt to the victim], and it shall be ^[b]an acceptable atonement for him.^(B)

    ⁵The man shall kill the young bull before the Lord, and the priests, Aaron's sons, shall present the blood and dash [it] round about upon the altar that is at the door of the Tent of Meeting.

    ⁶And he shall skin the burnt offering and cut it into pieces.

    ⁷And the sons of Aaron the priest shall put fire on the altar and lay wood in order on the fire;

    ⁸And Aaron's sons the priests shall lay the pieces, the head and the fat, in order on the wood on the fire on the altar.

    ⁹But its entrails and its legs he shall wash with water. And the priest shall burn all of it on the altar for a burnt offering, an offering by fire, a sweet and satisfying odor to the Lord.^(C)

    ¹⁰And if the man's offering is of the flock, from the sheep or the goats, for a burnt offering, he shall offer a male without blemish.

    ¹¹And he shall kill it on the north side of the altar before the Lord, and Aaron's sons the priests shall dash its blood round about against the altar.

    ¹²And [the man] shall cut it into pieces, with its head and its fat, and the priest shall lay them in order on the wood that is on the fire on the altar.

    ¹³But he shall wash the entrails and legs with water. The priest shall offer all of it and burn it on the altar; it is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a sweet and satisfying fragrance to the Lord.

    ¹⁴And if the offering to the Lord is a burnt offering of birds, then [the man] shall bring turtledoves or young pigeons.

    ¹⁵And the priest shall bring it to the altar, and wring off its head, and burn it on the altar; and its blood shall be drained out on the side of the altar.

    ¹⁶And he shall take away its crop with its feathers and cast it beside the altar on the east side, in the place for ashes.

    ¹⁷And he shall split it open [holding it] by its wings, but shall not cut it in two. And the priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire; it is a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a sweet and satisfying odor to the Lord.

Leviticus 2

    ²And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests. Out of it he shall take a handful of the fine flour and oil, with all its frankincense, and the priest shall burn this on the altar as the memorial portion of it, an offering made by fire, of a sweet and satisfying fragrance to the Lord.

    ³What is left of the cereal offering shall be Aaron's and his sons'; it is a most holy part of the offerings made to the Lord by fire.

    ⁴When you bring as an offering cereal baked in the oven, it shall be unleavened cakes of fine flour mixed with oil, or unleavened wafers spread with oil.

    ⁵If your offering is cereal baked on a griddle, it shall be of fine flour unleavened, mixed with oil.

    ⁶You shall break it in pieces and pour oil on it; it is a cereal offering.

    ⁷And if your offering is cereal cooked in the frying pan, it shall be made of fine flour with oil.

    ⁸And you shall bring the cereal offering that is made of these things to the Lord; it shall be presented to the priest, and he shall bring it to the [bronze] altar.

    ⁹The priest shall take from the cereal offering its memorial portion and burn it on the altar, an offering made by fire, a sweet and satisfying fragrance to the Lord.

    ¹⁰What is left of the cereal offering shall be Aaron's and his sons'; it is a most holy part of the offerings made to the Lord by fire.

    ¹¹No cereal offering that you bring to the Lord shall be made with leaven, for you shall burn no leaven or honey in any offering made by fire to the Lord.^(D)

    ¹²As an offering of firstfruits you may offer leaven and honey to the Lord, but ^[c]they shall not be burned on the altar for a sweet odor [to the Lord, for their aid to fermentation is symbolic of corruption in the human heart].

    ¹³Every cereal offering you shall season with salt [symbol of preservation]; neither shall you allow the salt of the covenant of your God to be lacking from your cereal offering; with all your offerings you shall offer salt.^(E)

    ¹⁴If you offer a cereal offering of your firstfruits to the Lord, you shall offer for it of your firstfruits grain in the ear parched with fire, bruised and crushed grain out of the fresh and fruitful ear.

    ¹⁵And you shall put oil on it and lay frankincense on it; it is a cereal offering.

    ¹⁶The priest shall burn as its memorial portion part of the bruised and crushed grain of it and part of the oil of it, with all its frankincense; it is an offering made by fire to the Lord.

Leviticus 3

    ²He shall lay [both] his ^[d]hands upon the head of his offering and kill it at the door of the Tent of Meeting; and Aaron's sons the priests shall throw the blood against the altar round about.

    ³And from the sacrifice of the peace offering, an offering made by fire to the Lord, he shall offer the fat that covers and is upon the entrails,

    ⁴And the two kidneys with the fat that is on them at the loins, and the appendage of the liver which he shall take away with the kidneys.

    ⁵Aaron's sons shall burn it all on the altar upon the burnt offering which is on the wood on the fire, an offering made by fire, of a sweet and satisfying odor to the Lord.

    ⁶If his peace offering to the Lord is an animal from the flock, male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.

    ⁷If he offers a lamb, then he shall offer it before the Lord.

    ⁸He shall lay [both] his hands on the head of his offering and kill it before the Tent of Meeting; and Aaron's sons shall throw its blood around against the altar.

    ⁹And he shall offer from the peace offering as an offering made by fire to the Lord: the fat of it, the fat tail as a whole, taking it off close to the backbone, and the fat that covers and is upon the entrails,

    ¹⁰And the two kidneys, and the fat on them at the loins, and the appendage of the liver, which he shall take away with the kidneys.

    ¹¹The priest shall burn it upon the altar, a food offering made by fire to the Lord.

    ¹²If [a man's] offering is a goat, he shall offer it before the Lord,

    ¹³And lay his hands upon its head, and kill it before the Tent of Meeting; and the sons of Aaron shall throw its blood against the altar round about.

    ¹⁴Then he shall offer from it as his offering made by fire to the Lord: the fat that covers and is on the entrails,

    ¹⁵And the two kidneys and the fat that is on them at the loins, and the appendage of the liver which he shall take away with the kidneys.

    ¹⁶The priest shall burn them on the altar as food, offered by fire, for a sweet and satisfying fragrance. All the fat is the Lord's.

    ¹⁷It shall be a perpetual statute for your generations in all your dwelling places, that you eat neither fat nor blood.

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Matthew 24

    ²But He answered them, Do you see all these? Truly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone upon another that will not be thrown down.

    ³While He was seated on the Mount of Olives, the disciples came to Him privately and said, Tell us, when will this take place, and what will be the sign of Your coming and of the end (the completion, the consummation) of the age?

    ⁴Jesus answered them, Be careful that no one misleads you [deceiving you and leading you into error].

    ⁵For many will come in (on the strength of) My name [^[b]appropriating the name which belongs to Me], saying, I am the Christ (the Messiah), and they will lead many astray.

    ⁶And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars; see that you are not frightened or troubled, for this must take place, but the end is not yet.

    ⁷For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there will be famines and earthquakes in place after place;

    ⁸All this is but the beginning [the early pains] of the ^[c]birth pangs [of the ^[d]intolerable anguish].

    ⁹Then they will hand you over to suffer affliction and tribulation and put you to death, and you will be hated by all nations for My name's sake.

    ¹⁰And then many will be offended and repelled and will ^[e]begin to distrust and desert [Him Whom they ought to trust and obey] and will stumble and fall away and betray one another and pursue one another with hatred.

    ¹¹And many false prophets will rise up and deceive and lead many into error.

    ¹²And the love of ^[f]the great body of people will grow cold because of the multiplied lawlessness and iniquity,

    ¹³But he who endures to the end will be saved.

    ¹⁴And this good news of the kingdom (the Gospel) will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony to all the nations, and then will come the end.

    ¹⁵So when you see the appalling sacrilege [the abomination that astonishes and makes desolate], spoken of by the prophet Daniel, standing in the Holy Place--let the reader take notice and ^[g]ponder and consider and heed [this]--^(A)

    ¹⁶Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains;

    ¹⁷Let him who is on the housetop not come down and go into the house to take anything;

    ¹⁸And let him who is in the field not turn back to get his overcoat.

    ¹⁹And alas for the women who are pregnant and for those who have nursing babies in those days!

    ²⁰Pray that your flight may not be in winter or on a Sabbath.

    ²¹For then there will be great tribulation (affliction, distress, and oppression) such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now--no, and never will be [again].^(B)

    ²²And if those days had not been shortened, no human being would endure and survive, but for the sake of the elect (God's chosen ones) those days will be shortened.

    ²³If anyone says to you then, Behold, here is the Christ (the Messiah)! or, There He is!--do not believe it.

    ²⁴For false Christs and false prophets will arise, and they will show great signs and wonders so as to deceive and lead astray, if possible, even the elect (God's chosen ones).

    ²⁵See, I have warned you beforehand.

    ²⁶So if they say to you, Behold, He is in the wilderness (desert)--do not go out there; if they tell you, Behold, He is in the secret places or inner rooms--do not believe it.

    ²⁷For just as the lightning flashes from the east and shines and ^[h]is seen as far as the west, so will the coming of the Son of Man be.

    ²⁸Wherever there is a fallen body (a corpse), there the vultures (or eagles) will flock together.^(C)