Bulls were particularly prized as sacrifices on account of their considerable value. The sacrifice of a bull was especially associated with the sin offering.

Exodus 29:36

Bulls offered as sacrifices

2 Samuel 6:12-13
Acts 14:13

See also

Numbers 23:1-4

Also used in pagan sacrifices.

Job 42:7-8
Psalms 66:15
Hebrews 9:13
Leviticus 4:13-21

See also

Instructions for the offering of a bull

Leviticus 1:3-9
Numbers 28:16-20

Bulls sacrificed on significant occasions

See also

Exodus 24:4-5

The Passover.

Exodus 29:10-14
Leviticus 9:2; 16:11-14

the covenant confirmed

Numbers 8:5-12; 29:12-13
1 Samuel 1:24

the Day of Atonement

1 Chronicles 15:25-26; 29:21-22
2 Chronicles 29:20-24
Ezra 6:9-10; 8:35
Ezekiel 43:19-27; 45:18-24
1 Kings 18:22-24

See also

Godly sacrifices in contrast to pagan ones

Judges 6:25-28
Psalms 69:30-31

Even the sacrifice of bulls invalid without the spiritual conditions being fulfilled

Isaiah 1:11

See also

Psalms 50:9,13
Isaiah 66:3
Hosea 12:11
Hebrews 10:4

Provisional nature of the OT sin offering of a bull

Deuteronomy 33:17

The bull as a symbol of strength

See also

Psalms 22:12; 68:30
Exodus 21:28-36

Laws concerning bulls

1 Kings 7:25-29

Bulls in the design of the temple

2 Kings 16:17
Jeremiah 52:20

pp 2Ch 4:3-4

Isaiah 34:6-7

Bulls in the setting of judgment

Jeremiah 50:27
Psalms 106:20

Bulls and idolatry

See also

4609 beast, the
4624 cow
4654 horn
6614 atonement
7316 blood, OT sacrifices
7324 calf worship
7435 sacrifice, in OT
7444 sin offering