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  • 11Sin offering — Part of a series of articles on Jews and Judaism …

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  • 12Child sacrifice — See also: Religious abuse and Infanticide Child sacrifice is the ritualistic killing of children in order to please, propitiate or force supernatural beings in order to achieve a desired result. As such, it is a form of human sacrifice …

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  • 13Human sacrifice in Aztec culture — Human sacrifice was an aspect of historical Aztec culture/religion, although the extent of the practice is debated by scholars. The Spaniards who first met the Aztecs explicitly stated in their writings that human sacrifice was widely practiced… …

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  • 14Guilt offering — A guilt offering (Hebrew: asham sin, or ashamot plural sins ‎), also referred to as a trespass offering (KJV, 1611), is a type of Biblical sacrifice, specifically a sacrifice made as a compensation payment. It is distinct from the sin offering.… …

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  • 15Animal sacrifice — is the ritual killing of an animal as part of a religion. It is practised by many religions as a means of appeasing a god or gods or changing the course of nature. Animal sacrifice has turned up in almost all cultures, from the Hebrews to the… …

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  • 16Morning offering — John Paul II: Morning Offering is “of fundamental importance in the life of each and every one of the faithful. In Roman Catholicism, the Morning Offering is a prayer said by an individual at the start of the day in order to consecrate the day to …

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  • 17The Spook's Sacrifice —   …

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  • 18altar — n. 1. Sacrificial structure, place of sacrifice or offering. 2. Shrine, sacred place, place of worship, sanctuary, Holy of Holies, sanctum sanctorum, inmost adyta, inner penetralia. 3. Communion table, holy table, Lord s table …

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  • 19AKEDAH — (ʿAqedah; Heb. הָדֵקֲע, lit. binding (of Isaac) ), the Pentateuchal narrative (Gen. 22:1–19) describing God s command to abraham to offer isaac , the son of his old age, as a sacrifice. Obedient to the command, Abraham takes Isaac to the place of …

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  • 20Tzav — For the town in Armenia, see Tsav, Armenia. Tzav, Tsav, Zav, or Sav (צו Hebrew for command,” the sixth word, and the first distinctive word, in the parshah) is the 25th weekly Torah portion ( parshah ) in the annual Jewish cycle of Torah reading… …

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