Genesis 8:20

8:20 Noah built an altar to the Lord. He then took some of every kind of clean animal and clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 1 

Genesis 31:54

31:54 Then Jacob offered a sacrifice 2  on the mountain and invited his relatives to eat the meal. 3  They ate the meal and spent the night on the mountain.

Genesis 46:1

The Family of Jacob goes to Egypt

46:1 So Israel began his journey, taking with him all that he had. 4  When he came to Beer Sheba 5  he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.

1 sn Offered burnt offerings on the altar. F. D. Maurice includes a chapter on the sacrifice of Noah in The Doctrine of Sacrifice. The whole burnt offering, according to Leviticus 1, represented the worshiper’s complete surrender and dedication to the Lord. After the flood Noah could see that God was not only a God of wrath, but a God of redemption and restoration. The one who escaped the catastrophe could best express his gratitude and submission through sacrificial worship, acknowledging God as the sovereign of the universe.

2 tn The construction is a cognate accusative with the verb, expressing a specific sacrifice.

3 tn Heb “bread, food.” Presumably this was a type of peace offering, where the person bringing the offering ate the animal being sacrificed.

4 tn Heb “and Israel journeyed, and all that was his.”

5 sn Beer Sheba. See Gen 21:31; 28:10.