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What does Numbers 28:22 mean?
"and one male goat for a sin offering, to make atonement for you."
— Numbers 28:22 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
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.
On the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work.
Explanation
Numbers 28:22 comes in the middle of a list of prescribed offerings for the Feast of Unleavened Bread, one of Israel's major annual festivals commemorating the exodus from Egypt. In plain terms, the verse simply instructs that alongside the burnt offerings of bulls, rams, and lambs presented each day of the feast, the priests were also to offer one male goat specifically as a sin offering. Its stated purpose is direct and clear: "to make atonement for you" — that is, to cover, cleanse, or reconcile the people before God.
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