Objects
ram
A ram appears in Abram's covenant rite and is later offered by Abraham at Moriah in Isaac's place. For the priests' consecration two unblemished rams are taken with a young bull: one is a burnt offering; the other is the ram of investiture.
Category
Objects
First mention
Genesis 15:9
Tags
3
Genesis 15, 22Exodus 29Sacrificial animal
Scripture references
- Genesis 15:9
Bring me ... a three-year-old ram...
- Genesis 22:13
Abraham saw a ram caught by its horns in a bush...
- Genesis 32:15
two hundred she-goats and twenty he-goats, two hundred ewes and twenty rams,
- Exodus 29:1
'This is what you will do to them, to consecrate them to my priesthood. Take one young bull and two rams without blemish;