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What does Numbers 28:27 mean?
"but you shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;"
— Numbers 28:27 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
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.
“‘Also in the day of the first fruits, when you offer a new meal offering to Yahweh in your feast of weeks, you shall have a holy convocation. You shall do no regular work;
but you shall offer a burnt offering for a pleasant aroma to Yahweh: two young bulls, one ram, seven male lambs a year old;
and their meal offering, fine flour mixed with oil, three tenths for each bull, two tenths for the one ram,
one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;
one male goat, to make atonement for you.
Explanation
Numbers 28:27 falls within a longer passage detailing the additional offerings required at the Feast of Weeks (also called Pentecost or the Feast of Firstfruits), which occurred fifty days after Passover. In plain language, the verse specifies the animals Israel was to present as a burnt offering on this feast day: two young bulls, one ram, and seven year-old male lambs, all offered up as a "pleasant aroma" to Yahweh. This offering was in addition to the regular daily and Sabbath sacrifices, marking the Feast of Weeks as a distinct and significant occasion in Israel's worship calendar.
The book of Numbers records instructions given through Moses to the Israelites during their wilderness journey, as God established the pattern of worship for the nation before they entered the Promised Land. Chapter 28 as a whole lays out a comprehensive schedule of offerings—daily, weekly (Sabbath), monthly, and for the annual feasts (Passover, Firstfruits/Weeks, Trumpets, Day of Atonement, and Tabernacles). This meticulous listing reflects the priestly and legal character of much of Numbers, ensuring that Israel's worship life was ordered, consistent, and set apart from surrounding nations. The Feast of Weeks itself was originally tied to the wheat harvest, a moment of thanksgiving for God's provision, and later in Jewish tradition became associated with the giving of the Law at Sinai.
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