Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meal offering, and the oil, morning by morning, for a continual burnt offering.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thus shall they prepare the lamb, and the meat offering, and the oil, every morning for a continual burnt offering.
- BSB Thus they shall provide the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil every morning as a regular burnt offering.’
- NKJV Thus they shall prepare the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil, as a regular burnt offering every morning.”
- NASB So they shall provide the lamb, the grain offering, and the oil, morning by morning, as a continual burnt offering.”
- NLT The lamb, the grain offering, and the olive oil must be given as a daily sacrifice every morning without fail.
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Quick answer
Lamb, grain, and oil are to be prepared every morning as a continual burnt offering. The faithful, unbroken rhythm of worship is restated for emphasis.
Overview
Summarizing the daily provision, this verse stresses the unceasing nature of Israel's morning worship. Continual sacrifice taught that fellowship with a holy God requires ongoing atonement. The 'continual' offering is gloriously answered in Christ, whose once-for-all sacrifice has perpetual, never-ending effect for those who come to God through Him (Heb. 7:25).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Heb 10:1–10For the law, having a shadow of the good to come, not the very image of the things, can never with the same sacrifices year by year, which they offer continually, make perfect those who draw near.
- Num 28:6It is a continual burnt offering, which was ordained in Mount Sinai for a pleasant aroma, an offering made by fire to Yahweh.
- Exod 29:42It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.
- Heb 7:27who doesn’t need, like those high priests, to offer up sacrifices daily, first for his own sins, and then for the sins of the people. For he did this once for all, when he offered up himself.
- Heb 9:26or else he must have suffered often since the foundation of the world. But now once at the end of the ages, he has been revealed to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself.
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