Prepare these special burnt offerings, along with their liquid offerings, in addition to the regular burnt offering and its accompanying grain offering. Be sure that all the animals you sacrifice have no defects.
Parallel translations
- WEB Besides the continual burnt offering, and its meal offering, you shall offer them and their drink offerings. See that they are without defect.
- KJV Ye shall offer them beside the continual burnt offering, and his meat offering, (they shall be unto you without blemish) and their drink offerings.
- BSB Offer them with their drink offerings in addition to the regular burnt offering and its grain offering. The animals must be unblemished.
- NKJV Be sure they are without blemish. You shall present them with their drink offerings, besides the regular burnt offering with its grain offering.
- NASB Besides the continual burnt offering and its grain offering, you shall present them with their drink offerings. They shall be without defect.
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Quick answer
The feast offerings, with their drink offerings, were added to the continual burnt offering, and all animals had to be without defect.
Overview
The chapter closes by reaffirming that the feast sacrifices supplemented the daily offering and that every victim must be flawless. The repeated demand for unblemished animals upheld the holiness of God and the costliness of approaching Him. These spotless offerings find their fulfillment in Christ, the lamb without blemish.
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Cross-references · 3
- Num 28:19but you shall offer an offering made by fire, a burnt offering to Yahweh: two young bulls, and one ram, and seven male lambs a year old; they shall be to you without defect;
- Num 28:3You shall tell them, ‘This is the offering made by fire which you shall offer to Yahweh: male lambs a year old without defect, two day by day, for a continual burnt offering.
- Mal 1:13–14You say also, ‘Behold, what a weariness it is!’ and you have sniffed at it”, says Yahweh of Armies; “and you have brought that which was taken by violence, the lame, and the sick; thus you bring the offering. Should I accept this at your hand?” says Yahweh.
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