Numbers 28:16-31

Passover Offerings

16 1"On the fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD's Passover,
17 2and on the fifteenth day of this month is a feast. Seven days shall unleavened bread be eaten.
18 3On the first day there shall be a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work,
19 but offer a food offering, a burnt offering to the LORD: two bulls from the herd, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; 4see that they are without blemish;
20 also their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil; three tenths of an ephah shall you offer for a bull, and two tenths for a ram;
21 a tenth shall you offer for each of the seven lambs;
22 also 5one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you.
23 You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a regular burnt offering.
24 In the same way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD. It shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.
25 And 6on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work.

Offerings for the Feast of Weeks

26 "On 7the day of the firstfruits, when you offer a grain offering of new grain to the LORD at your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work,
27 but offer a burnt offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD: 8two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;
28 also their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for each bull, two tenths for one ram,
29 a tenth for each of the seven lambs;
30 with 9one male goat, to make atonement for you.
31 Besides the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, you shall offer them and their drink offering. 10See that they are without blemish.

Numbers 28:16-31 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 28

In this chapter is a repetition of several laws concerning sacrifices, as the law of the daily sacrifice morning and evening, Nu 28:1-8 of those that were offered every week on the sabbath day, Nu 28:9,10 and every month on the first day of the month, Nu 28:11-15 and on the seven days of unleavened bread, Nu 28:16-25, and at the feast of weeks, Nu 28:26-31.

Cross References 10

  • 1. Deuteronomy 16:1; Ezekiel 45:21; See Exodus 12:6
  • 2. Leviticus 23:6; [Exodus 12:18]
  • 3. Exodus 12:16; Leviticus 23:7
  • 4. ver. 31; Numbers 29:8, 13; Leviticus 22:20; Deuteronomy 15:21; Deuteronomy 17:1
  • 5. ver. 15, 30; Numbers 29:22, 28, 31, 34, 38
  • 6. Exodus 12:16; Exodus 13:6; Leviticus 23:8
  • 7. Exodus 23:16; Exodus 34:22; Leviticus 23:10, 15; Deuteronomy 16:10; [Acts 2:1]
  • 8. [Leviticus 23:18, 19]
  • 9. ver. 15, 22
  • 10. ver. 19
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