5 Bible Verses about Sacrificing The Firstborn

Then he took his oldest son, who would have been king after him, offering him as a burned offering on the wall. So there was great wrath against Israel; and they went away from him, back to their country.

I made them unclean in the offerings they gave, causing them to make every first child go through the fire, so that I might put an end to them.

Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of sheep or with ten thousand rivers of oil? am I to give my first child for my wrongdoing, the fruit of my body for the sin of my soul?

And he said to him, Take your son, your dearly loved only son Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah and give him as a burned offering on one of the mountains of which I will give you knowledge.

For God had such love for the world that he gave his only Son, so that whoever has faith in him may not come to destruction but have eternal life.