Each day during the seven days of the feast, he shall provide seven bulls and seven rams without blemish as a burnt offering to the LORD, along with a male goat for a sin offering.
Parallel translations
- WEB The seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to Yahweh, seven bulls and seven rams without defect daily the seven days; and a male goat daily for a sin offering.
- KJV And seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the LORD, seven bullocks and seven rams without blemish daily the seven days; and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.
- NKJV On the seven days of the feast he shall prepare a burnt offering to the Lord, seven bulls and seven rams without blemish, daily for seven days, and a kid of the goats daily for a sin offering.
- NASB And during the seven days of the feast he shall provide as a burnt offering to the Lord seven bulls and seven rams without blemish on every day of the seven days, and a male goat daily as a sin offering.
- NLT On each of the seven days of the feast he will prepare a burnt offering to the Lord, consisting of seven young bulls and seven rams without defects. A male goat will also be given each day for a sin offering.
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Quick answer
Throughout the seven days of Passover, daily burnt offerings of bulls, rams, and a goat are presented.
Overview
The feast is marked by abundant daily sacrifices expressing worship and continual atonement. The repeated offerings underscore the seriousness of sin and the costliness of fellowship with God. Their daily repetition magnifies, by contrast, the once-for-all and fully sufficient sacrifice of Christ on the cross.
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Cross-references · 7
- Lev 23:8For seven days you are to present an offering made by fire to the LORD. On the seventh day there shall be a sacred assembly; you must not do any regular work.’”
- Job 42:8So now, take seven bulls and seven rams, go to My servant Job, and sacrifice a burnt offering for yourselves. Then My servant Job will pray for you, for I will accept his prayer and not deal with you according to your folly. For you have not spoken accurately about Me, as My servant Job has.”
- Num 23:1–2Then Balaam said to Balak, “Build for me seven altars here, and prepare for me seven bulls and seven rams.”
- Heb 10:8–12In the passage above He says, “Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings You did not desire, nor did You delight in them” (although they are offered according to the law).
- Num 29:11–38Include one male goat for a sin offering, in addition to the sin offering of atonement and the regular burnt offering with its grain offering and drink offerings.
- Num 28:15–31In addition to the regular burnt offering with its drink offering, one male goat is to be presented to the LORD as a sin offering.
- Num 29:5Include one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you.
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