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An object, institution or custom established or founded as a reminder of an important person or event held to be worth remembering in the life of the community.

Objects as a memorial

Stones

Joshua 4:4-7 See also Exodus 28:9-12 pp Exodus 39:6-7; Exodus 28:29

Money or gold

Exodus 30:16 See also Numbers 31:54

Incense

Leviticus 24:7 See also Isaiah 66:3

A crown

Zechariah 6:9-15

Offerings as a memorial

Leviticus 2:1-2 See also Leviticus 5:11-13; Numbers 10:10

Meals as a memorial

The Lord's Supper

1 Corinthians 11:23-26 See also Matthew 26:26-28 pp Mark 14:22-24 pp Luke 22:17-20

The Passover and the Feast of Unleavened Bread

Deuteronomy 16:1-8 pp Exodus 12:14-20 pp Leviticus 23:4-8 pp Numbers 28:16-25

See also

4963  past, the
5443  pillars
7354  feasts and festivals
7933  Lord's Supper
8467  reminders
8644  commemoration
8670  remembering
8763  forgetting