According to the number that you prepare, so you shall do for each one according to their number.
Parallel translations
- WEB According to the number that you shall prepare, so you shall do to everyone according to their number.
- KJV According to the number that ye shall prepare, so shall ye do to every one according to their number.
- BSB This is how you must prepare each one, no matter how many.
- NKJV According to the number that you prepare, so you shall do with everyone according to their number.
- NLT Follow these instructions with each offering you present.
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Quick answer
The grain and drink offerings were to be scaled to the number of animals sacrificed. It taught that worship is to be orderly and proportionate, not haphazard.
Overview
Concluding the offering instructions of verses 1-11, God commands that the accompanying offerings match the number of sacrifices brought. This reflects the carefulness and intentionality God requires in approaching him. Such ordered worship points forward to Christ, whose single, perfect offering fulfills and surpasses all these measured sacrifices (Hebrews 10:10-14).
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