And you shall provide an unblemished year-old lamb as a daily burnt offering to the LORD; you are to offer it every morning.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall prepare a lamb a year old without defect for a burnt offering to Yahweh daily: morning by morning you shall prepare it.
- KJV Thou shalt daily prepare a burnt offering unto the LORD of a lamb of the first year without blemish: thou shalt prepare it every morning.
- NKJV “You shall daily make a burnt offering to the Lord of a lamb of the first year without blemish; you shall prepare it every morning.
- NASB “And you shall provide a lamb a year old without blemish as a burnt offering to the Lord daily; morning by morning you shall provide it.
- NLT “Each morning you must sacrifice a one-year-old lamb with no defects as a burnt offering to the Lord.
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A spotless year-old lamb is to be offered every morning as a daily burnt offering. Daily, perpetual sacrifice keeps the people continually before God.
Overview
The continual morning burnt offering frames each day with atonement and dedication, a perpetual reminder of dependence on God's mercy. The unblemished lamb again points to Christ. His single, complete sacrifice ends the need for daily offerings, securing once for all what these repeated lambs could only foreshadow (Heb. 10:11-14).
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- Isa 50:4The Lord GOD has given Me the tongue of discipleship, to sustain the weary with a word. He awakens Me morning by morning; He awakens My ear to listen as a disciple.
- Num 28:10This is the burnt offering for every Sabbath, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its drink offering.
- Exod 12:5Your lamb must be an unblemished year-old male, and you may take it from the sheep or the goats.
- Exod 29:38–42This is what you are to offer regularly on the altar, each day: two lambs that are a year old.
- Lev 12:6When the days of her purification are complete, whether for a son or for a daughter, she is to bring to the priest at the entrance to the Tent of Meeting a year-old lamb for a burnt offering and a young pigeon or a turtledove for a sin offering.
- Dan 8:11–13It magnified itself, even to the Prince of the host; it removed His daily sacrifice and overthrew the place of His sanctuary.
- Ps 92:2to proclaim Your loving devotion in the morning and Your faithfulness at night
- 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!
- 1 Pet 1:19–20but with the precious blood of Christ, a lamb without blemish or spot.
- 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.
- Rev 13:8And all who dwell on the earth will worship the beast—all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain.
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