When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Passover sacrifice - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover_sacrifice

    Practice of Passover sacrifice by Temple Mount activists in Jerusalem, 2012.. The Passover sacrifice (Hebrew: קרבן פסח, romanized: Qorban Pesaḥ), also known as the Paschal lamb or the Passover lamb, is the sacrifice that the Torah mandates the Israelites to ritually slaughter on the evening of Passover, and eat lamb on the first night of the holiday with bitter herbs and matzo.

  3. Chupacabra - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chupacabra

    Eight sheep were discovered dead in Puerto Rico, each with three puncture wounds in the chest area and reportedly completely drained of blood. [7] A few months later, in August, an eyewitness named Madelyne Tolentino reported seeing the creature in the Puerto Rican town of Canóvanas , where as many as 150 farm animals and pets were reportedly ...

  4. Yom Kippur Temple service - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur_Temple_service

    Smearing of blood on the Golden (Incense) Altar: The Kohen Gadol removed the goat's blood from the stand and mixed it with the bull's blood. Starting at the northeast corner, he then smeared the mixture of blood on each of the four corners of the Golden (Incense) altar in the Holy. He then sprinkled the blood eight [citation needed] times on ...

  5. Animal sacrifice - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sacrifice

    Animal sacrifice was general among the ancient Near Eastern civilizations of Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Persia, as well as the Hebrews (covered below).Unlike the Greeks, who had worked out a justification for keeping the best edible parts of the sacrifice for the assembled humans to eat, in these cultures the whole animal was normally placed on the fire by the altar and burned, or ...

  6. The Sheep and the Goats - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sheep_and_the_Goats

    Early 6th century Byzantine mosaic art, depicting Christ separating the sheep from the goats. The blue angel is possibly the earliest artistic depiction of Satan.. The Sheep and the Goats or "the Judgement of the Nations" is a pronouncement of Jesus recorded in chapter 25 of the Gospel of Matthew, although unlike most parables it does not purport to relate a story of events happening to other ...

  7. Animal sacrifice in Hinduism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_sacrifice_in_Hinduism

    Bali among other things "refers to the blood of an animal" [7] and is sometimes known as Jhatka Bali [8] [9] among Hindus. The Kalika Purana distinguishes bali (sacrifice), mahabali (great sacrifice), for the ritual killing of goats, elephant, respectively, though the reference to humans in Shakti theology is symbolic and done in effigy in ...

  8. Qurban (Islamic ritual sacrifice) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qurban_(Islamic_ritual...

    There are stipulations for the animals offered; they can be sheep, goats, lambs, cows (buffalos, bulls) or camels (in strong contrast to Judaism). The animals must also be healthy, free from disease, and cannot be blind or one-eyed, missing parts of their tails or ears ( docking or cropping animals ears or tails are forbidden acts), and must be ...

  9. Atonement in Judaism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atonement_in_Judaism

    "To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me? saith the LORD; I am full of the burnt-offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he-goats" (Isaiah 1:11) "For I [God] desire mercy, and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God rather than burnt-offerings"