“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.
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.
- BSB And you shall provide an unblemished year-old lamb as a daily burnt offering to the LORD; you are to offer 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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Quick answer
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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Cross-references · 11
- Isa 50:4The Lord Yahweh has given me the tongue of those who are taught, that I may know how to sustain with words him who is weary. He wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear as those who are taught.
- Num 28:10this is the burnt offering of every Sabbath, besides the continual burnt offering, and its drink offering.
- Exod 12:5Your lamb shall be without defect, a male a year old. You shall take it from the sheep, or from the goats:
- Exod 29:38–42“Now this is that which you shall offer on the altar: two lambs a year old day by day continually.
- Lev 12:6“‘When the days of her purification are completed, for a son, or for a daughter, she shall bring to the priest at the door of the Tent of Meeting, a year old lamb for a burnt offering, and a young pigeon, or a turtledove, for a sin offering:
- Dan 8:11–13Yes, it magnified itself, even to the prince of the army; and it took away from him the continual burnt offering, and the place of his sanctuary was cast down.
- Ps 92:2to proclaim your loving kindness in the morning, and your faithfulness every night,
- John 1:29The next day, he saw Jesus coming to him, and said, “Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!
- 1 Pet 1:19–20but with precious blood, as of a lamb without blemish or spot, the blood of Christ;
- Num 28:3–8You shall tell them, ‘This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to Yahweh: male lambs a year old without defect, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
- Rev 13:8All who dwell on the earth will worship him, everyone whose name has not been written from the foundation of the world in the book of life of the Lamb who has been killed.
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