Numbers 29:1-11

Offerings of the Seventh Month

1 '1Now in the seventh month, on the first day of the month, you shall also have a holy convocation; 2you shall do no * laborious work. It will be to you a day for blowing trumpets.
2 'You shall offer a burnt offering as a soothing aroma to the LORD: one bull * *, one ram, and seven male lambs one year old without defect;
3 also their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths * of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths * for the ram,
4 and one-tenth for each of the seven lambs.
5 'Offer one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you,
6 3besides * the burnt offering of the new moon and its grain offering, and the 4continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offerings, according to their ordinance, for a soothing aroma, an offering by fire to the LORD.
7 'Then on 5the tenth day of this seventh month you shall have a holy convocation, and you shall humble yourselves; you shall not do any work.
8 'You shall present a burnt offering to the LORD as a soothing aroma: one bull * *, one ram, seven male lambs one year old, 6having them without defect;
9 and their grain offering, fine flour mixed with oil: three-tenths * of an ephah for the bull, two-tenths * for the one ram,
10 a tenth for each of the seven lambs;
11 one male goat for a sin offering, besides * 7the sin offering of atonement and 8the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offerings.

Numbers 29:1-11 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.

Cross References 8

  • 1. Exodus 23:16; Exodus 34:22; Leviticus 23:23-25
  • 2. Numbers 28:26
  • 3. Numbers 28:27
  • 4. Numbers 28:3
  • 5. Leviticus 16:29-34; Leviticus 23:26-32
  • 6. Leviticus 22:20; Deuteronomy 15:21; Deuteronomy 17:1
  • 7. Leviticus 16:3, 5
  • 8. Numbers 28:3

Footnotes 4

  • [a]. Or "bull of a herd," and so throughout the ch
  • [b]. I.e. Approx one bu
  • [c]. Lit "each lamb," and so throughout the ch
  • [d]. I.e. Approx one bu
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