Leviticus 1 Footnotes

1:14-17 The five kinds of animals specified for the burnt offering—bull, sheep, goat, turtledove, and pigeon—are exactly the five animals Abraham offered to God in Gn 15:9. As in that passage the birds were not split because they were much smaller animals.

1:17 The burnt offering foreshadows the sacrifice of Christ on the cross (Heb 13:15-16; see Php 4:18; 1Pt 2:5). Paul had the burnt offering in mind in Rm 12:1-2—the believer is to present himself entirely just as the burnt offering was entirely consumed on the altar.