Numbers 29:30-40

30 And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate according to the rite:

31 And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice and the libation thereof.

32 The seventh day you shall offer seven calves and two rams, and fourteen lambs of a year old, without blemish:

33 And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate according to the rite:

34 And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice and the libation thereof.

35 On the eighth day, which is most solemn, you shall do no servile work:

36 But you shall offer a holocaust for a most sweet odour to the Lord, one calf, one ram, and seven lambs of a year old, without blemish:

37 And the sacrifices and the libations of every one for the calves and for the rams and for the lambs you shall celebrate according to the rite:

38 And a buck goat for sin, besides the perpetual holocaust, and the sacrifice and the libation thereof.

39 These things shall you offer to the Lord in your solemnities: besides your vows and voluntary oblations for holocaust, for sacrifice, for libation, and for victims of peace offerings.

40 (30-1) And Moses told the children of Israel all that the Lord had commanded him:

Numbers 29:30-40 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.