Numbers 29:1-6

New Year's Day Offerings

1 "You are to hold a sacred assembly in the seventh month, on the first [day] of the month, and you are not to do any daily work.[a] This will be a day of jubilation[b] for you.[c]
2 Offer a burnt offering as a pleasing aroma to the Lord: one young bull, one ram, seven male lambs a year old-[all] unblemished-
3 with their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, six quarts[d] with the bull, four quarts[e] with the ram,
4 and two quarts[f] with each of the seven male lambs.
5 Also [offer] one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for yourselves.
6 These are in addition to the monthly and regular burnt offerings with their grain offerings and drink offerings. They are a pleasing aroma, a fire offering to the Lord.

Numbers 29:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 29

In this chapter an account is given of the various offerings on the several remarkable days in the seventh month of the year; at the feast of blowing the trumpets on the first day of the month, Nu 29:1-6, at the great fast or day of atonement, which was the tenth of the month, Nu 29:7-11, and at the feast of tabernacles, which began on the fifteenth day of the same month, and continued eight days, and the sacrifices of every day are particularly mentioned; of the first day, Nu 29:12-16, of the second day, Nu 29:17-19, of the third day, Nu 29:20-22, of the fourth day, Nu 29:23,24, of the fifth day, Nu 29:26-28, of the sixth day, Nu 29:29-31, of the seventh day, Nu 29:32-34, and of the eighth day, Nu 29:35-38, which sacrifices were to be offered, besides their vows and freewill offerings, of which Moses gave a faithful account, according to the command of God, Nu 29:39,40.

Footnotes 6

  • [a]. Ex 12:16
  • [b]. Lit shout, or blast; traditionally, trumpet blasts
  • [c]. Lv 23:23-25
  • [d]. Lit three-tenths (of an ephah)
  • [e]. Lit two-tenths (of an ephah)
  • [f]. Lit one-tenth (of an ephah)
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