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The greatest expression of one's religion and worship is found in sacrifice. Sacrifice is defined as "man's intimate relationship with Almighty God (Catholic Biblical Encyclopedia, 786)." Sacrifice in the Old Testament was the most important act a man could perform to show his love for God. Sacrifice consists of this, that man must take an important part of his life, such as an animals, or food, and offer it as a gift to God and at the same time make it a victim in place of himself to acknowledge God's absolute majesty (Catholic Biblical Encyclopedia 786). Man gives a fraction of his personal goods to God in a sacrifice. This surrender of his property occurs when the gift is removed from its future usefulness to him. In a word, sacrifices served to make man show his love and loyalty to God (Dictionary of the Bible, 755).
The Old Testament has two different types of sacrifices, bloody and unbloody. Unbloody sacrifices consisted of any type of garden produce, such as grain,......

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