Numbers 28:1-15

Daily Offerings

1 The LORD spoke to Moses, saying,

2 "Command the people of Israel and say to them, 'My offering, ¹my food for my food offerings, my ²pleasing aroma, you shall be careful to offer to me at its appointed time.'

3 ³And you shall say to them, This is the food offering that you shall offer to the LORD: two male lambs a year old without blemish, day by day, as a regular offering.

4 The one lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at twilight;

5 also ⁴a tenth of an ephah^[a] of fine flour for ⁵a grain offering, mixed ⁶with a quarter of a hin^[b] of beaten oil.

6 It is a ⁷regular burnt offering, which was ordained at Mount Sinai for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.

7 Its drink offering shall be a quarter of a hin for each lamb. In the Holy Place you shall pour out a drink offering of strong drink to the LORD.

8 The other lamb you shall offer at twilight. Like the grain offering of the morning, and like its drink offering, you shall offer it as a food offering, with a pleasing aroma to the LORD.

Sabbath Offerings

9 "On the Sabbath day, two male lambs a year old without blemish, and two tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering:

10 this is ⁸the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.

Monthly Offerings

11 ⁹"At the beginnings of your months, you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD: two bulls from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;

12 also ¹⁰three tenths of an ephah of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for each bull, and two tenths of fine flour for a grain offering, mixed with oil, for the one ram;

13 and a tenth of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering for every lamb; for a burnt offering with a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.

14 Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for a bull, a third of a hin for a ram, and a quarter of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering of each month throughout the months of the year.

15 Also ¹¹one male goat for a sin offering to the LORD; it shall be offered besides the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.

Numbers 28:1-15 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 28

In this chapter is a repetition of several laws concerning sacrifices, as the law of the daily sacrifice morning and evening, Nu 28:1-8 of those that were offered every week on the sabbath day, Nu 28:9,10 and every month on the first day of the month, Nu 28:11-15 and on the seven days of unleavened bread, Nu 28:16-25, and at the feast of weeks, Nu 28:26-31.

Cross References

• 1. See Leviticus 3:11
• 2. See Genesis 8:21
• 3. For ver. 3-8, see Exodus 29:38-42
• 4. Numbers 15:4; Exodus 16:36
• 5. Leviticus 2:1
• 6. Exodus 29:40
• 7. Exodus 29:42; [Amos 5:25]
• 8. [Ezekiel 46:4, 5]
• 9. Numbers 10:10; 1 Samuel 20:5; 1 Chronicles 23:31; 2 Chronicles 2:4; Ezra 3:5; Isaiah 1:13, 14; Ezekiel 45:17; Ezekiel 46:6; Hosea 2:11; Colossians 2:16
• 10. For ver. 12-14, see Numbers 15:4-12
• 11. ver. 22, 30; Numbers 15:24; Numbers 29:11, 16, 19, 25

Footnotes

• [a]. An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters
• [b]. A hin was about 4 quarts or 3.5 liters