This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old.
Parallel translations
- WEB “Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.
- KJV Now this is that which thou shalt offer upon the altar; two lambs of the first year day by day continually.
- NKJV “Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two lambs of the first year, day by day continually.
- NASB “Now this is what you shall offer on the altar: two one-year-old lambs each day, continuously.
- NLT “These are the sacrifices you are to offer regularly on the altar. Each day, offer two lambs that are a year old,
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Quick answer
God commands a daily offering of two year-old lambs on the altar. Israel's relationship with God was to be marked by continual, ordered worship.
Overview
This begins the regulation of the daily burnt offering (the Tamid), an unbroken rhythm of sacrifice morning and evening. It taught Israel that fellowship with a holy God needed constant atonement, not occasional ritual. The lamb offered day by day anticipates the Lamb of God, whose single sacrifice secures unbroken access to the Father (John 1:29; Hebrews 10:11-14).
Cross-references & the web
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- Num 28:3–8And tell them that this is the offering made by fire you are to present to the LORD as a regular burnt offering each day: two unblemished year-old male lambs.
- 1 Chr 16:40to regularly present burnt offerings to the LORD on the altar of burnt offerings, morning and evening, according to all that was written in the Law of the LORD, which He had commanded Israel to keep.
- Dan 12:11And from the time the daily sacrifice is abolished and the abomination of desolation set up, there will be 1,290 days.
- 2 Chr 2:4Behold, I am about to build a house for the Name of the LORD my God to dedicate to Him for burning fragrant incense before Him, for displaying the showbread continuously, and for making burnt offerings every morning and evening as well as on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts of the LORD our God. This is ordained for Israel forever.
- 2 Chr 13:11Every morning and every evening they present burnt offerings and fragrant incense to the LORD. They set out the rows of showbread on the ceremonially clean table, and every evening they light the lamps of the gold lampstand. We are carrying out the requirements of the LORD our God, while you have forsaken Him.
- Ezra 3:3They set up the altar on its foundation and sacrificed burnt offerings on it to the LORD—both the morning and evening burnt offerings—even though they feared the people of the land.
- 2 Chr 31:3The king contributed from his own possessions for the regular morning and evening burnt offerings and for the burnt offerings on the Sabbaths, New Moons, and appointed feasts, as written in the Law of the LORD.
- Dan 9:27And he will confirm a covenant with many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put an end to sacrifice and offering. And on the wing of the temple will come the abomination that causes desolation, until the decreed destruction is poured out upon him.”
- Heb 7:27Unlike the other high priests, He does not need to offer daily sacrifices, first for His own sins and then for the sins of the people; He sacrificed for sin once for all when He offered up Himself.
- 1 Pet 1:19but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.
- Dan 9:21while I was still praying, Gabriel, the man I had seen in the earlier vision, came to me in swift flight about the time of the evening sacrifice.
- John 1:29The next day John saw Jesus coming toward him and said, “Look, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
- Rev 5:9–12And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.
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The Passover lamb whose blood turns away death, the exodus through the sea, the manna, the rock, and the tabernacle where God dwells with his people all foreshadow Jesus — our Passover, our redemption, the bread from heaven, and God-with-us in the flesh.
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