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Numbers 28

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The LORD calls the offerings his food, then arranges the menu by morning, twilight, Sabbath, new moon, and feast—while Passover itself receives a date and, in this chapter, nothing else.

A timetable of pleasing aromasvv. 1–15

The LORD gives Moses a calendar that begins with two lambs a day: one in the morning, one at twilight, each accompanied by flour, oil, and drink. Sabbath adds another pair; the new moon brings bulls, a ram, lambs, wine in three measures, and one goat for a sin offering. The language is strikingly domestic—food, drink, and a pleasing aroma—though the quantities are anything but a modest household supper. The regular offering is said to have been established at Mount Sinai, and the fermented drink is poured out in the sanctuary area.

The feasts arrive in measured coursesvv. 16–31

Then the calendar turns to festival days. The fourteenth day is named as the LORD’s Passover, and the fifteenth begins seven days of unleavened bread; this chapter gives its detailed offerings from the first day onward, not the fourteenth. The same grand company of two bulls, one ram, and seven lambs appears again, with flour, oil, drink offerings, and a goat for atonement. The seventh day ends with a sacred assembly, and the day of firstfruits brings the pattern once more, all animals required to be unblemished. It is a remarkably persistent menu, with the dates doing the marching and the animals doing the repeating.

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Num 28:1Then the LORD said to Moses,
Num 28:2“Command the Israelites and say to them: See that you present to Me at its appointed time the food for My food offerings, as a pleasing aroma to Me.
Num 28:3And tell them that this is the food offering you are to present to the LORD as a regular burnt offering each day: two unblemished year-old male lambs.
Num 28:4Offer one lamb in the morning and the other at twilight,
Num 28:5along with a tenth of an ephah of fine flour as a grain offering, mixed with a quarter hin of oil from pressed olives.
Num 28:6This is a regular burnt offering established at Mount Sinai as a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.
Num 28:7The drink offering accompanying each lamb shall be a quarter hin. Pour out the offering of fermented drink to the LORD in the sanctuary area.
Num 28:8And offer the second lamb at twilight, with the same grain offering and drink offering as in the morning. It is a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD.
Num 28:9On the Sabbath day, present two unblemished year-old male lambs, accompanied by a grain offering of two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil, as well as a drink offering.
Num 28:10This is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.
Num 28:11At the beginning of every month, you are to present to the LORD a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old, all unblemished,
Num 28:12along with three-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering with each bull, two-tenths of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering with the ram,
Num 28:13and a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with oil as a grain offering with each lamb. This is a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma, a food offering to the LORD.
Num 28:14Their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine with each bull, a third of a hin with the ram, and a quarter hin with each lamb. This is the monthly burnt offering to be made at each new moon throughout the year.
Num 28:15In addition to the regular burnt offering with its drink offering, one male goat is to be presented to the LORD as a sin offering.
Num 28:16The fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover.
Num 28:17On the fifteenth day of this month, there shall be a feast; for seven days unleavened bread is to be eaten.
Num 28:18On the first day there is to be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.
Num 28:19Present to the LORD a food offering, a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old, all unblemished.
Num 28:20The grain offering shall consist of fine flour mixed with oil; offer three-tenths of an ephah with each bull, two-tenths of an ephah with the ram,
Num 28:21and a tenth of an ephah with each of the seven lambs.
Num 28:22Include one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you.
Num 28:23You are to present these in addition to the regular morning burnt offering.
Num 28:24Offer the same food each day for seven days as a food offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD. It is to be offered with its drink offering and the regular burnt offering.
Num 28:25On the seventh day you shall hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.
Num 28:26On the day of firstfruits, when you present an offering of new grain to the LORD during the Feast of Weeks, you are to hold a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.
Num 28:27Present a burnt offering of two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs a year old as a pleasing aroma to the LORD,
Num 28:28together with their grain offerings of fine flour mixed with oil—three-tenths of an ephah with each bull, two-tenths of an ephah with the ram,
Num 28:29and a tenth of an ephah with each of the seven lambs.
Num 28:30Include one male goat to make atonement for you.
Num 28:31Offer them with their drink offerings in addition to the regular burnt offering and its grain offering. The animals must be unblemished.’’

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2 Leviticus 3:11Then the priest is to burn them on the altar as food, a food offering to the LORD.
26 Exodus 34:22And you are to celebrate the Feast of Weeks with the firstfruits of the wheat harvest, and the Feast of Ingathering at the turn of the year.
26 Exodus 23:16You are also to keep the Feast of Harvest with the firstfruits of the produce from what you sow in the field. And keep the Feast of Ingathering at the end of the year, when you gather your produce from the field.
5 Leviticus 2:1“When anyone brings a grain offering to the LORD, his offering must consist of fine flour. He is to pour olive oil on it, put frankincense on it,
11 Numbers 10:10And on your joyous occasions, your appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month, you are to blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings and peace offerings to serve as a reminder for you before your God. I am the LORD your God.”
17 Leviticus 23:6On the fifteenth day of the same month begins the Feast of Unleavened Bread to the LORD. For seven days you must eat unleavened bread.
25 Leviticus 23:8For seven days you are to present a food offering to the LORD. On the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.’”
26 Leviticus 23:10“Speak to the Israelites and say, ‘When you enter the land that I am giving you and you reap its harvest, you are to bring to the priest a sheaf of the firstfruits of your harvest.
2 Genesis 8:21When the LORD smelled the pleasing aroma, He said in His heart, “Never again will I curse the ground because of man, even though every inclination of his heart is evil from his youth. And never again will I destroy all living creatures as I have done.
5 Exodus 16:36(Now an omer is a tenth of an ephah.)
10 Ezekiel 46:4–5The burnt offering that the prince presents to the LORD on the Sabbath day shall be six unblemished male lambs and an unblemished ram.
11 Ezekiel 46:6On the day of the New Moon he shall offer a young, unblemished bull, six lambs, and a ram without blemish.
12 Numbers 15:4–12then the one presenting his offering to the LORD shall also present a grain offering of a tenth of an ephah of fine flour mixed with a quarter hin of olive oil.
15 Numbers 28:3And tell them that this is the food offering you are to present to the LORD as a regular burnt offering each day: two unblemished year-old male lambs.
16 Exodus 12:18In the first month you are to eat unleavened bread, from the evening of the fourteenth day until the evening of the twenty-first day.
16 Deuteronomy 16:1–8Observe the month of Abib and celebrate the Passover to the LORD your God, because in the month of Abib the LORD your God brought you out of Egypt by night.

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