And one kid of the goats, to make an atonement for you.
Parallel translations
- WEB one male goat, to make atonement for you.
- BSB Include one male goat to make 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 28:22And one goat for a sin offering, to make an atonement for you.
- Num 28:15And one kid of the goats for a sin offering unto the LORD shall be offered, beside the continual burnt offering, and his drink offering.
- 1 Pet 3:18For Christ also hath once suffered for sins, the just for the unjust, that he might bring us to God, being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit:
- Num 15:24Then it shall be, if ought be committed by ignorance without the knowledge of the congregation, that all the congregation shall offer one young bullock for a burnt offering, for a sweet savour unto the LORD, with his meat offering, and his drink offering, according to the manner, and one kid of the goats for a sin offering.
- Gal 3:13Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree:
- 2 Cor 5:21For he hath made him to be sin for us, who knew no sin; that we might be made the righteousness of God in him.
- 1 Pet 2:24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.
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