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Numbers 29:2-6

You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect; and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the ram, and one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs; and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you; in addition to the burnt offering of the new moon with its meal offering, and the continual burnt offering with its meal offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

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“ ‘In the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no regular work. It is a day of blowing of trumpets to you. You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect; and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the ram, and one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs; and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you; in addition to the burnt offering of the new moon with its meal offering, and the continual burnt offering with its meal offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

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Parallel Translations

  • WEB World English Bible

    You shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without defect;

    and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three tenths for the bull, two tenths for the ram,

    and one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;

    and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you;

    in addition to the burnt offering of the new moon with its meal offering, and the continual burnt offering with its meal offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

  • KJV King James Version

    And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD; one young bullock, one ram, and seven lambs of the first year without blemish:

    And their meat offering shall be of flour mingled with oil, three tenth deals for a bullock, and two tenth deals for a ram,

    And one tenth deal for one lamb, throughout the seven lambs:

    And one kid of the goats for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you:

    Beside the burnt offering of the month, and his meat offering, and the daily burnt offering, and his meat offering, and their drink offerings, according unto their manner, for a sweet savour, a sacrifice made by fire unto the LORD.

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  • JPS JPS Tanakh (1917)

    And ye shall prepare a burnt-offering for a sweet savour unto the LORD: one young bullock, one ram, seven he-lambs of the first year without blemish;

    and their meal-offering, fine flour mingled with oil, three tenth parts for the bullock, two tenth part for the ram,

    and one tenth part for every lamb of the seven lambs;

    and one he-goat for a sin-offering, to make atonement for you;

    beside the burnt-offering of the new moon, and the meal-offering thereof, and the continual burnt-offering and the meal-offering thereof, and their drink-offerings, according unto their ordinance, for a sweet savour, an offering made by fire unto the LORD.

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Cross-references (18)

  • Numbers 28:3-8 (v6) You shall tell them, ‘This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to Yahweh: male lambs a year old without defect, two day by…
  • Numbers 28:11-15 (v6) “ ‘In the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old…
  • Numbers 28:15 (v5) Also, one male goat for a sin offering to Yahweh shall be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.
  • Numbers 28:30 (v5) and one male goat, to make atonement for you.
  • Exodus 29:38-42 (v6) “Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually. The one lamb you shall offer in the…
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  • Leviticus 6:9 (v6) “Command Aaron and his sons, saying, ‘This is the law of the burnt offering: the burnt offering shall be on the hearth on the altar all…
  • Numbers 9:14 (v6) “ ‘If a foreigner lives among you, and desires to keep the Passover to Yahweh, then he shall do so according to the statute of the…
  • Numbers 15:11-12 (v6) Thus it shall be done for each bull, for each ram, for each of the male lambs, or of the young goats. According to the number that you…
  • Numbers 15:24 (v6) then it shall be, if it was done unwittingly, without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young…
  • Numbers 28:19 (v2) but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. They…
  • Numbers 28:22 (v5) and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you.
  • Numbers 28:27 (v2) but you shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;
  • Numbers 29:8 (v2) 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…
  • Numbers 29:18 (v6) and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the…
  • Numbers 29:21 (v6) and their meal offering and their drink offerings for the bulls, for the rams, and for the lambs, according to their number, after the…
  • Numbers 29:36 (v2) but you shall offer a burnt offering, an offering made by fire, a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: one bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old…
  • Ezra 3:4 (v6) They kept the feast of booths, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the ordinance, as the duty…
  • Hebrews 10:10-14 (v2) by which will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all. Every priest indeed stands day by day…

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Explain this passage (9 sources)

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Geneva Bible translators 1599 · Public Domain On v6 Which must be offered in the beginning of every…

Which must be offered in the beginning of every month.

Which is for morning and evening.

Geneva Bible (1599) marginal notes — public domain.

Matthew Poole 1685 · Public Domain On vv2, 6 A burnt-offering, besides the offerings of every month and…
John Gill 1763 · Public Domain On vv2, 3, 6 And ye shall offer a burnt offering for a…
John Wesley 1765 · Public Domain On v6 Of the month - Belonging to every new moon.
Joseph Benson 1811 · Public Domain On vv2, 6 Num 29:2. Ye shall offer a burnt-offering, &c. —…
The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges 1878 · Public Domain On vv2, 6 2. my food] In primitive days in Israel (as…
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers 1878 · Public Domain On v6 (6) Beside the burnt offering of the month.—Better, of…
The Pulpit Commentary 1880 · Public Domain On v2 Ye shall offer a burnt offering. Such an offering…
unfoldingWord translationNotes 2017 · CC BY-SA 4.0 On vv2, 3, 6 General Information:
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