And Abraham lifted up his eyes and looked about: and behold, there was a ram caught by the horns in a thicket. And he went and took the ram and offered him up for a sacrifice in the stead of his son.

"Behold, I have taken the Levites, from among the children of Israel, for all the firstborn that openeth the matrix among the children of Israel: so that the Levites shall be mine. Because all the firstborn are mine - for the same day that I smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, I hallowed unto me all the firstborn in Israel, both man and beast, and mine they shall be: for I am the LORD."

and I have taken the Levites for all the firstborn among the children of Israel,

if he be able to fight with me and to beat me, then we will be your servants. But if I can overcome him and beat him, then ye shall be our servants and serve us."

And he said unto the king, "Thus sayeth the LORD, 'Because thou hast let go a man that ought to have died, thy life shall go for his life, and thy people for his."

Our fathers, which now are gone, have sinned; and we must bear their wickedness.

But thou shalt sleep upon thy left side, and lay the sin of the house of Israel upon thee. Certain days appointed, thou shalt sleep upon that side, and bear their sins.

And let him put his hand upon the head of the burnt sacrifice, and favour shall be given him to make an atonement for him,

upon the forefront of it, that it be upon Aaron's forehead: that Aaron bear the sin of the holy things which the children of Israel have hallowed in all their holy gifts. And it shall be always upon Aaron's forehead, that they may be accepted before the LORD.

and let Aaron put both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the misdeeds of the children of Israel, and all their trespasses, and all their sins: and let him put them upon the head of the goat and send him away by the hands of one that is acquainted in the wilderness. And the goat shall bear upon him all their misdeeds unto the wilderness, and he shall let the goat go free in the wilderness.

it must be a male without blemish of the oxen, sheep or goats. Let them offer nothing that is deformed for they shall get no favour therewith.

He was so despisable, that we esteemed him not. Truly, he took upon him our diseases, and bare our sorrows. And yet we counted him plagued, and beaten, and humbled of God. He was wounded for our transgressions, and bruised for our iniquities. The correction that brought us peace was on him, and with his stripes we were healed. And we went astray as sheep, and turned every man his way: and the LORD put on him the wickedness of us all.

to fulfill that which was spoken by Isaiah the prophet, saying, "He took on him our infirmities, and bare our sicknesses."

which when he was reviled, reviled not again: when he suffered, he threatened not: but committed the cause to him that judgeth righteously, which his own self bare our sins in his body on the tree, that we should be delivered from sin and should live in righteousness. By whose stripes ye were healed. For ye were as sheep going astray: but are now returned unto the shepherd, and bishop of your souls.

For the zeal of thine house hath even eaten me; and the rebukes of them that rebuked thee is fallen upon me.

For even the son of man came, not to be ministered unto: but to minister, and to give his life for the redemption of many."

For when we were yet weak according to the time: Christ died for us which were ungodly.

which died for us: that whether we wake or sleep, we should live together with him.

I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for the sheep.

nor yet consider that it is expedient for us, that one man die for the people, and not that all the people perish."

If thy brother be grieved with thy meat, now walkest thou not charitably. Destroy not him with thy meat, for whom Christ died.

For the love of Christ constraineth us; because we thus judge, if one be dead for all, that then are all dead:

I am crucified with Christ. I live verily, yet now not I, but Christ liveth in me. For the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the son of God, which loved me, and gave himself for me.

But Christ hath delivered us from the curse of the law, and was made accursed for us - for it is written, "Cursed is everyone that hangeth on tree" -

which gave himself a ransom for all men, that it should be testified at his time;

which gave himself for us, to redeem us from all unrighteousness, and to purge us a peculiar people unto himself, fervently given unto good works.

Nevertheless, we yet see not all things subdued unto him. But him that was made less than the angels, we see that it was Iesus: which is crowned with glory and honour for the suffering of death; that he, by the grace of God, should taste of death for all men.

For hereunto verily were ye called, for Christ also suffered for us: leaving us an example that ye should follow his steps,

Hereby are we assured of love: because he left his life for us: And therefore we ought also to give our lives for our brethren.

which his own self bare our sins in his body on the tree, that we should be delivered from sin and should live in righteousness. By whose stripes ye were healed.

Forasmuch as Christ hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, for to bring us to God, and was killed, as pertaining to the flesh: but was quickened in the spirit.

for he hath made him to be sin for us, which knew no sin, that we by his means should be that righteousness which before God is allowed.

even so Christ was once offered to take away the sins of many, and unto them that look for him, shall he appear again, without sin, unto their salvation.

and that he died for all, because that they which live, should not henceforth live unto themselves: but unto him which died for them and rose again.

Greater love than this hath no man, than that a man bestow his life for his friends.

Yet forgive them their sin, I pray thee: If not, wipe me out of thy book which thou hast written."

For I have wished myself to be cursed from Christ, for my brethren and my kinsmen as pertaining to the flesh: