No longer do we sacrifice blood for our sin offerings. "For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering. The sacrifices of Gd are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O Gd, thou wilt not despise". [Psalm 51:16-17]

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Even the gentiles have a right to go before God without a priest for forgiveness of sin or offering. As for the foreigner who does not belong to your people Israel but has come from a distant land because of your name — for men will hear of your great name and your mighty hand and your outstretched arm — when he comes and prays toward this temple, then hear from heaven, your dwelling place, and do whatever the foreigner asks of you, so that all the peoples of the earth may know your name and fear you, as do your own people Israel and may know that this house I have built bears your Name. [I Kings 8:41-43]

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No longer do we need a sin offering to be forgiven. We only need to go before God with a pure heart and a contrite spirit of repentance.  When we go before God's altar we should never go empty handed.  "Three times a year all your men must appear before the LORD your God at the place he will choose: at the Festival of Unleavened Bread, the Festival of Weeks and the Festival of Tabernacles. No one should appear before the LORD empty-handed:
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We give to God as a sign of our faith and thankfulness because He is a giving and merciful God.