Numbers 15:3

3 and ¹you offer to the Lord from the herd or from the flock a food offering^[a] or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, ²to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or ³at your appointed feasts, to make a ⁴pleasing aroma to the Lord,

Numbers 15:3 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 15:3

And will make an offering by fire unto the Lord, a burnt
offering
The first of these respects such offerings by fire, which were not wholly burnt, but part of them were eaten by the priests, ( Deuteronomy 18:1 ) ; and the latter such as were wholly burnt, unless the latter can be thought to be only an explanation of the former:

or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering;
these were peace offerings, some of which were for thanksgiving, and others were either a vow or a freewill offering, as here: see ( Leviticus 7:11 Leviticus 7:12 Leviticus 7:16 ) ;

or in your solemn feasts;
as the passover, pentecost of which, and the offerings in them, see ( Leviticus 23:4-37 ) ( Numbers 28:1-29:40 ) ;

to make a sweet savour unto the Lord;
for acceptance with him:

of the herd or of the flock;
a bullock of the one, a lamb or kid of the goats of the other; fowls are not mentioned, because burnt offerings of them required no drink offerings ^F6.

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FOOTNOTES:

F6 Maimon. Maaseh Hakorbanot, c. 2. sect. 2.

Numbers 15:3 In-Context

1 The Lord spoke to Moses, saying,

2 “Speak to the people of Israel and say to them, When you come into the land you are to inhabit, which I am giving you,

3 and you offer to the Lord from the herd or from the flock a food offering or a burnt offering or a sacrifice, to fulfill a vow or as a freewill offering or at your appointed feasts, to make a pleasing aroma to the Lord,

4 then he who brings his offering shall offer to the Lord a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour, mixed with a quarter of a hin of oil;

5 and you shall offer with the burnt offering, or for the sacrifice, a quarter of a hin of wine for the drink offering for each lamb.

Cross References

• 1. 15:3 Lev. 1:2, 3
• 2. 15:3 Lev. 22:21; 27:2
• 3. 15:3 ch. 28:19, 27; Lev. 23:8, 12, 36; Deut. 16:10
• 4. 15:3 Ex. 29:18; Lev. 4:31; See Gen. 8:21

Footnotes

• [a] 15:3 Or 'an offering by fire'; so throughout Numbers