Include one male goat to make atonement for you.
Parallel translations
- WEB one male goat, to make atonement for you.
- KJV And one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you.
- NKJV also one kid of the goats, to make atonement for you.
- NASB also one male goat to make atonement for you.
- NLT Also, offer one male goat to purify yourselves and make yourselves right with the Lord.
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Quick answer
A male goat was offered 'to make atonement for you,' so even the harvest celebration rested on forgiveness of sin.
Overview
Joy over the harvest did not remove the need for atonement; a sin offering accompanied the feast. This kept Israel mindful that all blessing is received by a sinful people only through God's mercy. The atoning goat points to Christ, whose sacrifice secures every blessing for His people.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 7
- Num 28:22Include one male goat as a sin offering to make atonement for you.
- Num 28:15In addition to the regular burnt offering with its drink offering, one male goat is to be presented to the LORD as a sin offering.
- 1 Pet 3:18For Christ also suffered for sins once for all, the righteous for the unrighteous, to bring you to God. He was put to death in the body but made alive in the Spirit,
- 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.
- Gal 3:13Christ redeemed us from the curse of the law by becoming a curse for us. For it is written: “Cursed is everyone who is hung on a tree.”
- 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.
- 1 Pet 2:24He Himself bore our sins in His body on the tree, so that we might die to sin and live to righteousness. “By His stripes you are healed.”
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