This is an illustration of the alter of sacrifice with the lamb being burnt as the sin offering and an image of Jesus on the cross in the flames. the gate to the courtyard and the white curtains is in the background
7 It was not because you were more in number than any other people that the LORD set his love on you and chose you, for you were the fewest of all peoples,
Hebrews 10
12 But when Christ had offered for all time a single sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God,
Hebrews 13
10 We have an altar from which those who serve the tent have no right to eat.11 For the bodies of those animals whose blood is brought into the holy places by the high priest as a sacrifice for sin are burned outside the camp.12 So Jesus also suffered outside the gate in order to sanctify the people through his own blood.
Hosea 6
6 For I desire steadfast love and not sacrifice, the knowledge of God rather than burnt offerings.
Luke 2
24 and to offer a sacrifice according to what is said in the Law of the Lord, “a pair of turtledoves, or two young pigeons.”
Psalm 116
17 I will offer to you the sacrifice of thanksgiving and call on the name of the LORD.
Psalm 66
15 I will offer to you burnt offerings of fattened animals, with the smoke of the sacrifice of rams; I will make an offering of bulls and goats. Selah