Numbers 28

Laws concerning offerings, sacrifices, feasts

And the LORD spoke to Moses, saying, 2 “Give this command to the children of Israel, and say to them, Take care to present to me my offering, my food for my sacrifices made by fire, of a soothing aroma to me, in their due season. 3 And you shall say to them, This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to the LORD: two lambs a year old without defect, day by day, as a continual burnt offering. 4 One lamb you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer at evening, 5 with a tenth of an ephah of flour as a grain offering, mixed with a fourth of a hin of beaten oil. 6 This is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in Mount Sinai as a soothing aroma, a sacrifice made by fire to the LORD. 7 And its drink offering shall be the fourth of a hin for one lamb. You shall have the strong wine poured out to the LORD in the holy place as a drink offering. 8 And you shall offer the other lamb at evening; you shall offer it as the grain offering of the morning and as its drink offering, a sacrifice made by fire, a soothing aroma to the LORD.

28:3-8 Ex 29:38-42. “Tenth of an ephah” (vs 5,7,14) – probably about one liter.⚜

9 “And on the Sabbath day offer two lambs a year old without defect, and two tenths of an ephah of flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, and its drink offering. 10 This is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering.

11 “And in the beginning of each of your months you shall offer a burnt offering to the LORD: two young oxen, and one ram, seven lambs a year old without defect, 12 and three tenths of an ephah of flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, for each ox, and two tenths of an ephah of flour as a grain offering, mixed with oil, for each ram, 13 and for each lamb a tenth of an ephah of flour mixed with oil as a grain offering, as a burnt offering of a soothing aroma, a sacrifice made by fire to the LORD. 14 And their drink offerings shall be half a hin of wine for an ox, and a third of a hin for a ram, and a fourth of a hin for a lamb. This is the burnt offering for each month throughout the months of the year. 15 And one young goat as a sin offering is to be offered to the LORD, besides the continual burnt offering, and its drink offering.

28:1-15 For meanings of the offerings spoken in these verses see notes on the first chapters of Leviticus.⚜

The Offerings at the Appointed Feasts

16 “And on the fourteenth day of the first month is the LORD’s Passover. 17 And on the fifteenth day of this month there shall be a feast; bread made without yeast shall be eaten for seven days. 18 On the first day there shall be a holy convocation; you shall do no type of hard work in it; 19 but you shall offer a sacrifice made by fire as a burnt offering to the LORD: two young oxen, and one ram, and seven lambs a year old. They shall be to you without blemish. 20 And their grain offering are to be of flour mixed with oil. You shall offer three tenths of an ephah for an ox, and two tenths of an ephah for a ram, 21 and offer a tenth of an ephah for each lamb, with all the seven lambs, 22 and one goat as a sin offering, to make atonement for you. 23 You shall offer these besides the burnt offering in the morning, which is for a continual burnt offering. 24 In this way you shall offer each day, for seven days, the food of the sacrifice made by fire, a soothing aroma to the LORD. It is to be offered besides the continual burnt offering and its drink offering. 25 And on the seventh day you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no hard work.

26 “Also on the day of first fruits, when you bring a new grain offering to the LORD in your Feast of Weeks, you shall have a holy convocation; you shall do no hard work; 27 but you shall offer the burnt offering as a soothing aroma to the LORD, two young oxen, one ram, seven lambs a year old, 28 and their grain offering of flour mixed with oil, three tenths of an ephah for each ox, two tenths of an ephah for each ram, 29 a tenth of an ephah for each lamb, with all the seven lambs; 30 and one young goat, to make atonement for you.

28:30 Note on atonement at Ex 29:33. As they neared the land of promise they were reminded of the offerings God required of them – daily offerings (v 3-8), weekly offerings (vs 9,10), monthly offerings (vs 11-15); also special festival offerings (Num 28:16—29:40).⚜

31 You shall offer them besides the continual burnt offering, and its grain offering (they shall be to you without blemish), and their drink offerings.