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What does Numbers 28:21 mean?
"You shall offer one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;"
— Numbers 28:21 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
In the first day shall be a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work;
but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; they shall be to you without defect;
and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil. You shall offer three tenths for a bull, and two tenths for the ram.
You shall offer one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;
and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you.
You shall offer these besides the burnt offering of the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering.
In this way you shall offer daily, for seven days, the food of the offering made by fire, of a pleasant aroma to Yahweh. It shall be offered in addition to the continual burnt offering, and its drink offering.
Explanation
Numbers 28:21 gives a precise instruction about the grain offering that was to accompany the sacrificial lambs during Israel's
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