Numbers 29:1-6

Offerings for the Feast of Trumpets

1 "On the first day of the seventh month you shall have a holy convocation. You shall not do any ordinary work. ¹It is a day for you to blow the trumpets,

2 and you shall offer a burnt offering, for a pleasing aroma to the LORD: one bull from the herd, one ram, seven male lambs a year old without blemish;

3 also their grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah^[a] for the bull, two tenths for the ram,

4 and one tenth for each of the seven lambs;

5 with ²one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you;

6 besides ³the burnt offering of the new moon, and its grain offering, and ⁴the regular burnt offering and its grain offering, and their drink offering, according to the rule for them, for a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.

Numbers 29:1-6 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

• 1. Leviticus 23:24; See Numbers 10:1-10
• 2. [See Numbers 28:30 above]
• 3. See Numbers 28:11-15
• 4. See Numbers 28:3-8

Footnotes

• [a]. An ephah was about 3/5 bushel or 22 liters