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What does Numbers 28:29 mean?
"one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs;"
— Numbers 28:29 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
“‘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.
Besides the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, you shall offer them and their drink offerings. See that they are without defect.
Explanation
Numbers 28:29 is a fragment of a longer instruction, and taken on its own it reads almost like a footnote — "one tenth for every lamb of the seven lambs." To understand it, you have to see it within its full sentence and context. This verse belongs to the description of the grain offering that accompanied the burnt offerings on the Feast of Weeks (Shavuot), which Israel celebrated seven weeks after Passover. The full instruction specifies that on this feast, the Israelites were to offer two young bulls, one ram, and seven male lambs as burnt offerings, along with a grain offering of fine flour mixed with oil. Verse 29 specifies the precise amount of
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