Libations in the Torah

(9) God appeared again to Jacob on his arrival from Paddan-aram. God blessed him, (10) saying to him, “You whose name is Jacob, You shall be called Jacob no more, But Israel shall be your name.” Thus, he was named Israel. (11) And God said to him, “I am El Shaddai. Be fertile and increase; A nation, yea an assembly of nations, Shall descend from you. Kings shall issue from your loins. (12) The land that I assigned to Abraham and Isaac I assign to you; And to your offspring to come Will I assign the land.” (13) God parted from him at the spot where [God] had spoken to him; (14) and Jacob set up a pillar at the site where [God] had spoken to him, a pillar of stone, and he libated upon it and [also] poured oil upon it. (15) Jacob gave the site, where God had spoken to him, the name of Bethel.

(23) You shall make a table of acacia wood...(29) Make its bowls, ladles, jars and jugs with which to libate; make them of pure gold. (30) And on the table you shall set the bread of display, to be before Me always.

(40) There shall be a tenth of a measure of choice flour with a quarter of a hin of beaten oil mixed in, and a libation of a quarter hin of wine for one lamb; (41) and you shall offer the other lamb at twilight, repeating with it the meal offering of the morning with its libation—an offering by fire for a pleasing odor to the LORD.

[table of incense offering:] (9) You shall not offer alien incense on it, or a burnt offering or a meal offering; neither shall you libate upon it.

(13) The meal offering with it shall be two-tenths of a measure of choice flour with oil mixed in, an offering by fire of pleasing odor to the LORD; and the libation with it shall be of wine, a quarter of a hin.

(18) With the bread you shall present, as burnt offerings to the LORD, seven yearling lambs without blemish, one bull of the herd, and two rams, with their meal offerings and libations, an offering by fire of pleasing odor to the LORD.

(13) This is the ritual for the nazirite: On the day that the term as nazirite is completed, the person shall be brought to the entrance of the Tent of Meeting. (14) As an offering to the LORD that person shall present: one male lamb in its first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering; one ewe lamb in its first year, without blemish, for a sin offering; one ram without blemish for an offering of well-being; (15) a basket of unleavened cakes of choice flour with oil mixed in, and unleavened wafers spread with oil; and the proper meal offerings and libations. (16) The priest shall present them before the LORD and offer the sin offering and the burnt offering. (17) He shall offer the ram as a sacrifice of well-being to the LORD, together with the basket of unleavened cakes; the priest shall also offer the meal offerings and the libations. (18) The nazirite shall then shave the consecrated hair, at the entrance of the Tent of Meeting, and take those locks of consecrated hair and put them on the fire that is under the sacrifice of well-being. (19) The priest shall take the shoulder of the ram when it has been boiled, one unleavened cake from the basket, and one unleavened wafer, and place them on the hands of the nazirite after the consecrated hair has been shaved. (20) The priest shall elevate them as an elevation offering before the LORD; and this shall be a sacred donation for the priest, in addition to the breast of the elevation offering and the thigh of gift offering. After that, the nazirite drinks wine.

(1) The LORD spoke to Moses, saying: (2) Speak to the Israelite people and say to them: When you enter the land that I am giving you to settle in, (3) and would present an offering by fire to the LORD from the herd or from the flock, be it burnt offering or sacrifice, in fulfillment of a vow explicitly uttered, or as a freewill offering, or at your fixed occasions, producing an odor pleasing to the LORD...(5) You shall also offer, with the burnt offering or the sacrifice, a quarter of a hin of wine as a libation for each sheep. (6) In the case of a ram, ...a third of a hin of wine as a libation—as an offering of pleasing odor to the LORD. (8) And if it is an animal from the herd that you offer to the LORD as a burnt offering or as a sacrifice, in fulfillment of a vow explicitly uttered or as an offering of well-being,...as libation you shall offer half a hin of wine—these being offerings by fire of pleasing odor to the LORD. (11) Thus shall be done with each ox, with each ram, and with any sheep or goat, (12) as many as you offer; you shall do thus with each one, as many as there are. (13) Every citizen, when presenting an offering by fire of pleasing odor to the LORD, shall do so with them. (14) And when, throughout the ages, a stranger who has taken up residence with you, or one who lives among you, would present an offering by fire of pleasing odor to the LORD—as you do, so shall it be done by (15) the rest of the congregation. There shall be one law for you and for the resident stranger; it shall be a law for all time throughout the ages. You and the stranger shall be alike before the LORD; (16) the same ritual and the same rule shall apply to you and to the stranger who resides among you.

(24) If this was done unwittingly, through the inadvertence of the community, the community leaders shall present one bull of the herd as a burnt offering of pleasing odor to the LORD, with its proper meal offering and libation, and one he-goat as a sin offering.

(7) The libation with it shall be a quarter of a hin for each lamb, to be libated in the sacred precinct as an offering of beer to the LORD. (8) The other lamb you shall offer at twilight, preparing the same meal offering and libation as in the morning—an offering by fire of pleasing odor to the LORD.

(10) a burnt offering for every sabbath, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its libation.

(11) On your new moons you shall present a burnt offering to the LORD: two bulls of the herd, one ram, and seven yearling lambs, without blemish. (12) As meal offering for each bull: three-tenths of a measure of choice flour with oil mixed in. As meal offering for each ram: two-tenths of a measure of choice flour with oil mixed in. (13) As meal offering for each lamb: a tenth of a measure of fine flour with oil mixed in. Such shall be the burnt offering of pleasing odor, an offering by fire to the LORD. (14) Their libations shall be: half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and a quarter of a hin for a lamb. That shall be the monthly burnt offering for each new moon of the year. (15) And there shall be one goat as a sin offering to the LORD, to be offered in addition to the regular burnt offering and its libation.

(19) You shall present an offering by fire, a burnt offering, to the LORD: two bulls of the herd, one ram, and seven yearling lambs—see that they are without blemish. (20) The meal offering with them shall be of choice flour with oil mixed in: prepare three-tenths of a measure for a bull, two-tenths for a ram; (21) and for each of the seven lambs prepare one-tenth of a measure. (22) And there shall be one goat for a sin offering, to make expiation in your behalf. (23) You shall present these in addition to the morning portion of the regular burnt offering. (24) You shall offer the like daily for seven days as food, an offering by fire of pleasing odor to the LORD; they shall be offered, with their libations, in addition to the regular burnt offering.

(26) On the day of the first fruits, your Feast of Weeks, when you bring an offering of new grain to the LORD, you shall observe a sacred occasion: you shall not work at your occupations. (27) You shall present a burnt offering of pleasing odor to the LORD: two bulls of the herd, one ram, seven yearling lambs. (28) The meal offering with them shall be of choice flour with oil mixed in, three-tenths of a measure for a bull, two-tenths for a ram, (29) and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs. (30) And there shall be one goat for expiation in your behalf. (31) You shall present them—see that they are without blemish—with their libations, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its meal offering.

(1) In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall observe a sacred occasion: you shall not work at your occupations. You shall observe it as a day when the horn is sounded. (2) You shall present a burnt offering of pleasing odor to the LORD: one bull of the herd, one ram, and seven yearling lambs, without blemish. (3) The meal offering with them—choice flour with oil mixed in—shall be: three-tenths of a measure for a bull, two-tenths for a ram, (4) and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs. (5) And there shall be one goat for a sin offering, to make expiation in your behalf— (6) in addition to the burnt offering of the new moon with its meal offering and the regular burnt offering with its meal offering, each with its libation as prescribed, offerings by fire of pleasing odor to the LORD.

(7) On the tenth day of the same seventh month you shall observe a sacred occasion when you shall practice self-denial. You shall do no work. (8) You shall present to the LORD a burnt offering of pleasing odor: one bull of the herd, one ram, seven yearling lambs; see that they are without blemish. (9) The meal offering with them—of choice flour with oil mixed in—shall be: three-tenths of a measure for a bull, two-tenths for the one ram, (10) one-tenth for each of the seven lambs. (11) And there shall be one goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of expiation and the regular burnt offering with its meal offering, each with its libation.

(12) On the fifteenth day of the seventh month, you shall observe a sacred occasion: you shall not work at your occupations.—Seven days you shall observe a festival of the LORD.— (13) You shall present a burnt offering, an offering by fire of pleasing odor to the LORD: Thirteen bulls of the herd, two rams, fourteen yearling lambs; they shall be without blemish. (14) The meal offerings with them—of choice flour with oil mixed in—shall be: three-tenths of a measure for each of the thirteen bulls, two-tenths for each of the two rams, (15) and one-tenth for each of the fourteen lambs. (16) And there shall be one goat for a sin offering—in addition to the regular burnt offering, its meal offering and libation.

(17) Second day: Twelve bulls of the herd, two rams, fourteen yearling lambs, without blemish; (18) the meal offerings and libations for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in the quantities prescribed; (19) and one goat for a sin offering—in addition to the regular burnt offering, its meal offering and libations.

(20) Third day: Eleven bulls, two rams, fourteen yearling lambs, without blemish; (21) the meal offerings and libations for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in the quantities prescribed; (22) and one goat for a sin offering—in addition to the regular burnt offering, its meal offering and libation.

(23) Fourth day: Ten bulls, two rams, fourteen yearling lambs, without blemish; (24) the meal offerings and libations for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in the quantities prescribed; (25) and one goat for a sin offering—in addition to the regular burnt offering, its meal offering and libation.

(26) Fifth day: Nine bulls, two rams, fourteen yearling lambs, without blemish; (27) the meal offerings and libations for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in the quantities prescribed; (28) and one goat for a sin offering—in addition to the regular burnt offering, its meal offering and libation.

(29) Sixth day: Eight bulls, two rams, fourteen yearling lambs, without blemish; (30) the meal offerings and libations for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in the quantities prescribed; (31) and one goat for a sin offering—in addition to the regular burnt offering, its meal offering and libations.

(32) Seventh day: Seven bulls, two rams, fourteen yearling lambs, without blemish; (33) the meal offerings and libations for the bulls, rams, and lambs, in the quantities prescribed; (34) and one goat for a sin offering—in addition to the regular burnt offering, its meal offering and libation.

(35) On the eighth day you shall hold a solemn gathering; you shall not work at your occupations. (36) You shall present a burnt offering, an offering by fire of pleasing odor to the LORD; one bull, one ram, seven yearling lambs, without blemish; (37) the meal offerings and libations for the bull, the ram, and the lambs, in the quantities prescribed; (38) and one goat for a sin offering—in addition to the regular burnt offering, its meal offering and libation.