“ ‘On the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall afflict your souls. You shall do no kind of work; but you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh for a pleasant aroma: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old, all without defect;
To offer the additional offering on Yom Kippur
The cited verse
The Hebrew (Masoretic Text)
וְהִקְרַבְתֶּם עֹלָה לַיהוָה רֵיחַ נִיחֹחַ פַּר בֶּן־בָּקָר אֶחָד אַיִל אֶחָד כְּבָשִׂים בְּנֵי־שָׁנָה שִׁבְעָה
In Maimonides’ words
How Maimonides defines this commandment in his Sefer HaMitzvot — his own words, shown as a primary source.
היא שצונו להקריב קרבן מוסף ביום עשירי מתשרי. והוא אמרו יתברך ובעשור לחדש השביעי והקרבתם עולה אשה לה'. (פינחס תמידין ומוספין פ"י):
That is that He commanded to offer an additional sacrifice on the tenth day of Tishrei. And that is His, may He be blessed, saying, "And on the tenth day of the seventh month [...] You shall offer a burnt-offering as a pleasing odor to the Lord" (Numbers 29:7-8). (See Parashat Pinchas; Mishneh Torah, Daily Offerings and Additional Offerings 10.)
Hebrew: Sefer HaMitzvot, Warsaw 1883 (public domain). English: Sefaria Edition, trans. Rabbi Francis Nataf, 2021 (CC0). Via Sefaria; translator’s footnotes omitted.
Literary form: a ritual instruction
Applicability
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- Requires a standing Temple
Classical halakhic consequences
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Imposed by a court
No court-imposed penalty is recorded.
At the hands of Heaven
No divinely-imposed consequence is recorded.
Ritual remedy
No ritual remedy is recorded.
How the streams of Judaism treat this commandment
The streams of Judaism read the same commandment differently — an ongoing plurality, not a ranking. Each position below is reported as the catalog records it; none is presented as the correct one.
- Orthodox Binding, with modification
- Conservative Kept as an ethical principle
- Reform Not binding
- Reconstructionist Not binding
- Karaite Binding, with modification
24 of 613 commandments have been examined in depth so far — this one is queued.
How later traditions received this commandment
How later traditions read or reworked this commandment, each attributed to its own voice. The catalog’s own classification of each reception is shown as it records it, never adopted as GEBible’s.
Qumran (the Dead Sea Scrolls)
- 11QTemple (11Q19) col. 25-27 (Day of Atonement festival calendar) reinterpreted it
Philo of Alexandria
- De Specialibus Legibus 1.186-188 read it allegorically
Josephus
- Ant. 3.240-243 affirmed it
The New Testament
- Hebrews 9:7-12 treated it as abrogated Yom Kippur cultus, especially the high-priestly entry into the inner sanctuary, treated as typologically superseded by Christ's once-for-all offering; the musaf as such is not separately addressed
The Qur'an and hadith
- Q 2:183-185 carried a thematic parallel
Where this commandment meets modern human-rights frameworks
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This framework catalogues tensions; it records agreement in only one of its entries. The near-total tension rate is the shape of the instrument, not a finding.
No tension with the catalogued modern frameworks is recorded here.