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What does Numbers 7:28 mean?
"one male goat for a sin offering;"
— Numbers 7:28 (World English Bible)
Surrounding context
gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was a hundred and thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
one golden ladle of ten shekels, full of incense;
one young bull, one ram, one male lamb a year old, for a burnt offering;
one male goat for a sin offering;
and for the sacrifice of peace offerings, two head of cattle, five rams, five male goats, and five male lambs a year old. This was the offering of Eliab the son of Helon.
On the fourth day Elizur the son of Shedeur, prince of the children of Reuben
gave his offering: one silver platter, the weight of which was one hundred thirty shekels, one silver bowl of seventy shekels, after the shekel of the sanctuary; both of them full of fine flour mixed with oil for a meal offering;
Explanation
Numbers 7:28 is a single phrase embedded in a much longer, repetitive list: "one male goat for a sin offering." Read on its own, it says simply that among the gifts brought to dedicate the altar of the tabernacle, one item was a male goat, and its purpose was to serve as a sin offering — a sacrifice made specifically to atone for sin rather than to give thanks or make a general offering of worship.
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