When did burnt offerings start?

Leviticus opens up talking about burnt offerings.

I find three variations, I will call them

Burnt A

Burnt B

Burnt C

But before we eat alphabet soup let’s check the first burnt offering we come across.

It was the day the passengers disembarked from a long boat ride.

Noah built an altar to the LORD and took some of every clean animal and some of every clean bird and offered burnt offerings on the altar. 

Gen 8.20

That makes me wonder how Noah knew what animals were clean and which were not, but that is a whole nother can of worms.

Next on the agenda was Abraham’s son—his only son, as God emphasized.

That’s Genesis 22.

Fortunately, the fire never got lit so the young man never got fried.

Later, we see Moses standing firm (Ex 10.25) in negotiations with Pharoah, the Israelites could only talk their walk in the desert if they had animals to present as burnt offerings.

Then, in Exodus 18.12, Moses’ gentile father-in-law burnt an offering to God.

Next: Leviticus chapter 1.