You shall also prepare one male goat as a sin offering and two male lambs a year old as a peace offering.
Parallel translations
- WEB You shall offer one male goat for a sin offering, and two male lambs a year old for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
- KJV Then ye shall sacrifice one kid of the goats for a sin offering, and two lambs of the first year for a sacrifice of peace offerings.
- NKJV Then you shall sacrifice one kid of the goats as a sin offering, and two male lambs of the first year as a sacrifice of a peace offering.
- NASB You shall also offer one male goat as a sin offering, and two male lambs one year old as a sacrifice of peace offerings.
- NLT Then you must offer one male goat as a sin offering and two one-year-old male lambs as a peace offering.
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A male goat is offered as a sin offering and two year-old lambs as a peace offering.
Overview
Even amid harvest thanksgiving, a sin offering acknowledged that the worshipers needed atonement, while peace offerings celebrated fellowship with God. Joy and the recognition of sin were held together. This combination anticipates the gospel, where Christ's atoning death secures both forgiveness and peace with God.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Num 28:30Include one male goat to make atonement for you.
- Num 15:24and if it was done unintentionally without the knowledge of the congregation, then the whole congregation is to prepare one young bull as a burnt offering, a pleasing aroma to the LORD, with its grain offering and drink offering according to the regulation, and one male goat as a sin offering.
- Lev 7:11–18Now this is the law of the peace offering that one may present to the LORD:
- Lev 16:15Aaron shall then slaughter the goat for the sin offering for the people and bring its blood behind the veil, and with its blood he must do as he did with the bull’s blood: He is to sprinkle it against the mercy seat and in front of it.
- Lev 4:23–28When he becomes aware of the sin he has committed, he must bring an unblemished male goat as his offering.
- Rom 8:3For what the law was powerless to do in that it was weakened by the flesh, God did by sending His own Son in the likeness of sinful man, as an offering for sin. He thus condemned sin in the flesh,
- Lev 3:1–17“If one’s offering is a peace offering and he offers an animal from the herd, whether male or female, he must present it without blemish before the LORD.
- 2 Cor 5:21God made Him who knew no sin to be sin on our behalf, so that in Him we might become the righteousness of God.
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Every sacrifice, every priest, and every day of atonement points beyond itself to the one perfect offering and the great High Priest who, by his own blood, makes the unclean holy once for all.
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