Bring your offering of livestock from the HERD or from the FLOCK

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Le 1:

1 The Lord called Moses and spoke to him from the tent of meeting, saying, 2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When any one of you brings an offering to the Lord, you shall bring your offering of livestock from the herd or from the flock.

Herd is usually applied to larger animals.

3 “If his offering is a burnt offering from the herd, he shall offer a male without blemish. He shall bring it to the entrance of the tent of meeting, that he may be accepted before the Lord. 4 He shall lay his hand on the head of the burnt offering, and it shall be accepted for him to make atonement for him. 5 Then he shall kill the bull before the Lord, and Aaron’s sons the priests shall bring the blood and throw the blood against the sides of the altar that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

Bulls, like oxen, were more expensive.

10 “If his gift for a burnt offering is from the flock, from the sheep or goats, he shall bring a male without blemish.

Sheep and goats were less expensive. They were smaller animals from the flock.

14 “If his offering to the Lord is a burnt offering of birds, then he shall bring his offering of turtledoves or pigeons.

Birds were the least expensive.

The law for burn offerings provided options for different economic levels of society to participate.