Numbers 29:7-11

Offerings for the Day of Atonement

7 "You are to hold a sacred assembly on the tenth [day] of this seventh month and practice self-denial;[a] you must not do any work.
8 Present a burnt offering to the Lord, a pleasing aroma: one young bull, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old. [All] your animals are to be unblemished.
9 Their grain offering is to be of fine flour mixed with oil, six quarts[b] with the bull, four quarts[c] with the ram,
10 and two quarts[d] with each of the seven lambs.
11 [Offer] one male goat for a sin offering. The regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offerings are in addition to the sin offering of atonement.

Numbers 29:7-11 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 4

  • [a]. Traditionally, this involved fasting, abstinence from sex, and refraining from personal grooming
  • [b]. Lit three-tenths (of an ephah)
  • [c]. Lit two-tenths (of an ephah)
  • [d]. Lit one-tenth (of an ephah)
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