Sacrifice
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Sacrifice is an act or offering made to a deity. A sacrifice can serve as propitiation, or a sacrifice can be an offering of praise and thanksgiving.
Marcus Aurelius and members of the Imperial family offer sacrifice in gratitude for success against Germanic tribes: contemporary bas-relief, Capitoline Museum, Rome.
The sacrificial cairn in Janakkala, Finland
Animal sacrifice offered together with libation in Ancient Greece. Attic red-figure oinochoe, c. 430–425 BC (Louvre).
Aztec human sacrifice, from Codex Mendoza, 16th century (Bodleian Library, Oxford).
Korban
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In Judaism, the korban, also romanized as qorban or corban, is any of a variety of sacrificial offerings described and commanded in the Torah.
Sacrifice
…individual non-Christian ethnic religions, terms translated as "sacrifice" include the Indic yajna, the Greek thusia, the Germanic blōtan, the Semitic qorban/qurban, Slavic żertwa, etc. The term usually implies "doing without something" or "giving something up" (see also self-sacrifice). But the word sacrifice…
The High Priest offers the sacrifice of a goat performing korban
God commands Abraham to offer his son Isaac as a sacrifice, Domenichino.