Exodus 18:12

Jethro's Visit

¹¹ Now I know that Jehovah is greater than all the other gods. It was proven when they treated the people with contempt. ¹² Then Jethro, Moses’ father-in-law, took a burnt offering and sacrifices for God, and Aaron came with all the elders of Israel to eat a meal with Moses’ father-in-law before God. ¹³ The next day Moses settled disputes among the people. He was busy from morning till night.

Before God

Burnt Offering

Burnt Offerings

Elders of Israel

Law of Moses

Men of Israel

Presence of God

O God

Aaron

Israel

Jethro

Moses

Genesis 31:54

He offered a sacrifice on the mountain. He invited his relatives to eat the meal with him. They ate with him and spent the night on the mountain.

Deuteronomy 12:7

You and your households should eat there before Jehovah your God, and rejoice in all your undertakings that Jehovah your God has blessed.

Exodus 24:5

Moses sent young men to burn sacrifices to Jehovah. They sacrificed some cattle as peace offerings.

Exodus 24:11

Even though these leaders of Israel saw God, he did not punish them. So they ate and drank.

Genesis 4:4

But Abel brought fat portions from some of the firstborn (firstlings) of his flock. Jehovah looked with favor on Abel and his offering.

Genesis 8:20

Noah built an altar to Jehovah and, taking some of all the clean animals and clean birds, he sacrificed burnt offerings on it.

Genesis 12:7

Jehovah appeared to Abram and said: I will give this land to your offspring (seed). He built an altar there to Jehovah, who had appeared to him.

Genesis 26:25

Isaac built an altar there and worshiped Jehovah. Then he set up his camp. His servants dug another well.

Genesis 43:25

The brothers prepared their gifts so they could give them to Joseph at noon. For they had heard they were going to eat there.

Exodus 2:20

He asked his daughters: Where is he? Why have you left the man? Call him, that he may eat bread.

Leviticus 7:11-17

These are the instructions for the fellowship offering that you must bring to Jehovah.

Deuteronomy 27:7

and sacrifice peace offerings and eat there, and rejoice before Jehovah your God.

2 Samuel 9:7

David replied: Do not be afraid. I will be kind to you for the sake of your father Jonathan. I will give you back all the land that belonged to your grandfather Saul. You will always be welcome at my table.

1 Chronicles 29:21-22

The following day they killed animals as sacrifices, dedicating them to Jehovah. Then they gave them to the people to eat. In addition, they sacrificed a thousand bulls, a thousand rams, and a thousand lambs, which they burned whole on the altar. They also brought the offerings of wine.

2 Chronicles 30:22

Hezekiah spoke encouraging words to all the Levites who had the skills to serve Jehovah. They ate the festival meals for seven days, sacrificed fellowship offerings, and confessed their sins to Jehovah the God of their ancestors.

Job 1:5

The morning after each feast, Job would get up early to offer sacrifices for each of his children in order to purify them. He always did this because he thought that one of them might have sinned by insulting God unintentionally.

Job 42:8

So now take seven bulls and seven rams and go to my servant Job and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. My servant Job will pray for you, and I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. You did not speak correctly about me, as my servant Job has.

Job 42:11

All his brothers and sisters and everyone who had known him before came and ate with him in his house. They comforted and consoled him over all the trouble Jehovah allowed to come upon him. Each one gave him a piece of silver and a gold ring.

Daniel 10:3

I ate no pleasant bread; neither flesh nor wine entered my mouth. I did not anoint myself at all until three whole weeks were completed.

Luke 14:1

Shortly after that he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees. They were there to eat on the Sabbath. They watched him.

Luke 14:15

One of the guests at the table then said to Jesus: Those who sit down at the feast in the Kingdom of God will be happy!

1 Corinthians 10:18

Is physical Israel the ones who eat the sacrifices, the partakers of the altar?

1 Corinthians 10:21

You cannot drink the cup of Jehovah and the cup of demons. You cannot be partakers of the Jehovah's Table and of the table of demons. (Malachi 1:12)

1 Corinthians 10:31

Whether you eat, or drink, or whatever you do, do everything to the glory of God.